Executing

Examples

• I had not been back to Woking between getting the order and executing the commission. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Might he be trusted with the commission, what infinite pleasure should he have in executing it! Jane Austen. Emma.
• In the friendliest manner he is making himself quite at home with his back to the fire, executing a statuette of the Colossus at Rhodes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And then she shewed him how, by executing various designs and paintings, she earned a pittance for her support. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• More heads are occupied in inventing the most proper machinery for executing the work of each, and it is, therefore, more likely to be invented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were executing officers of the rank of major and above who were separated from their troops. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• His was the mighty achievement of conceiving and executing in all its details an art and an industry absolutely new to the world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I assure you Dan is directing works and executing labours over yonder, that it would make your hair stand on end to look at. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Amber