Explaining

Examples

• Not at all, said Lydgate, I was simply explaining my own action. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He would write explaining his absence, of course; there would be a note from him by the late post. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We killed a pair of _guardia civil_, he said, explaining the military saddles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• As for YOUR way of looking at it, William Brangwen, it needs a little explaining. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I believe this rule to be of the highest importance in explaining the laws of embryology. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I propose explaining the case to the servants. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The accompanying diagram will assist in explaining the arrangement. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• His appearance told what he had gone through lately clearer than his words; but where is the use of explaining? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To another, I replied, I might have a difficulty in explaining; but I am sure that you will admit a proposition which I am about to make. Plato. The Republic.
• Tom isn't a bad hand, now, at explaining Scripture, I'll dare swear, said St. Clare. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I have felt uneasy about the chest--it won't do to carry that too far, he said to Ladislaw in explaining the affair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For this reason the present phaenomenon will be sufficiently accounted for, in explaining that passion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I begin to think, Watson, said Holmes, that I make a mistake in explaining. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I began explaining to her that secret history of the partnership. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• As it was, not only Edison, but all the company's directors, officers, and employees, were kept busy exhibiting and explaining the light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• My only difficulty in answering your question, is the difficulty of explaining myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The difficulty of explaining this distinction arises from the principle above explained, that all ideas, which are different, are separable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He paid homage both to the multiplicity and the uniform ity of nature, the wealth of the phenomena and the simplicity of the law explaining the phenomena. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In the year 1749, he first suggested his idea of explaining the phenomena of thunder-gusts, and of the aurora borealis, upon electrical principles. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When Edison had finished explaining the principles and details of the lamp, he asked Kruesi to let the dynamo machine run. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She looked surprised and uneasy while I was explaining my purpose, but she made no positive objection to the execution of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I believe it will not be very necessary to employ many words in explaining this distinction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I invited them in, taking them first to the boiler-room, where I showed them the coal-pile, explaining that this was used to generate steam in the boiler. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Later Pascal experimented with the siphon and succeeded in explaining it on the principle of atmospheric pressure. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• After the beginning of October, it is pointed out, the evidence before the Committee should keep him so busy explaining and denying that the country will not hear much Bull Moose doctrine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In explaining this he added: Suppose you want to take the falls down at Richmond, and want to put up a water-power? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But to-day, for instance, Mr. M'Choakumchild was explaining to us about Natural Prosperity. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Explaining to Little Dorrit that he would run to the coffee-house for a bottle of wine, Arthur fetched it with all the haste he could use. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Henry was most happy to make it more intelligible, by beginning at an earlier stage, and explaining very particularly what he had done. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I wrote to Moor House and to Cambridge immediately, to say what I had done: fully explaining also why I had thus acted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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