Existing

Examples

• Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But a human impulse is more important than any existing theory. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Bare logic, however important in arranging and criticizing existing subject matter, cannot spin new subject matter out of itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The latter represents the possibilities of the former; not its existing state. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He opposed the existing state of affairs on the ground that it formed neither the citizen nor the man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This led him to review the existing state of affairs (1780) and to compare it with the state of affairs during the decline of imperial Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then he gave me such a detail of misfortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This change of the general intellectual mood harmonized with Aristotle's natural respect for existing fact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They do see that humanity is badly squeezed in the existing mould. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They also bear abundant evidence of the compatibility of these two widely divergent gifts existing, even to a high degree, in the same person. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The first steam war vessel was built in 1814 by Fulton for the defence of New York Harbor, during the then existing war times. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This is some very old inscription, existing perhaps long before the ancient alms-houses in this place. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I suspect I am one of the rashest of existing men. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Under existing circumstances, it is as well on all accounts that they should not. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This confusion corresponds to the existing situation of human intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To-day there are in the United States more than 41,000,000 of these lamps, connected to existing central-station circuits in active operation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Many of our existing social activities, industrial and political, fall in these two classes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It meant a rebellion against existing social institutions, customs, and ideals (See ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• At most he learns simply to improve his existing technique; he does not get new points of view; he fails to experience any intellectual companionship. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There is, however, grave danger that in insisting upon this end, existing economic conditions and standards will be accepted as final. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Then let us finally determine that there are two principles existing in the soul. Plato. The Republic.
• Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Nothing more on that subject, he replied; but I should like to know which of the governments now existing is in your opinion the one adapted to her. Plato. The Republic.
• We shall appreciate this difficulty more clearly by looking to certain existing faunas and floras. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Our history is now approaching our own times, and our study becomes more and more a study of the existing state of affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As at present existing, the crown of England is a gold circle, adorned with pearls and precious stones, having alternately four Maltese crosses and four fleur-de-lis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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