Expressing

Examples

• These methods of thinking, and of expressing ourselves, are not of so little consequence as they may appear at first sight. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• While eating his cake, I could not forbear expressing my secret wish that I really knew all of which he accused me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I could not help expressing something of my wonder and regret that his benevolent, disinterested intentions had prospered so little. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I claim the right of expressing my feelings. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Is it necessary that I should defend myself for expressing my displeasure? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am not indebted for my present happiness to your eager desire of expressing your gratitude. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It seems as if he must go mad in the necessity he feels for haste and the inability under which he labours of expressing to do what or to fetch whom. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Whereas in the King's Bench--' Mr Rugg waved his right hand freely, as expressing abundance of space. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She has been expressing her anxiety that you should return in time. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He sent it immediately; and I returned it in about a week with another note, expressing strongly my sense of the favour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This was coming to the point, and I thought it a sensible way of expressing himself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• If he were to be in love, what a bright glowing countenance he possesses for expressing that or indeed any other passion! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• When Percy MacKaye pleads for pageants in which the people themselves participate, he offers an opportunity for expressing some of the lusts of the city in the form of an art. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A group of symbols, such as this, expressing a molecule of a compound is called a _formula_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In their modes of expressing thought, these two generals contrasted quite as strongly as in their other characteristics. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But if you will listen to his letter, you may perhaps be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Mr. Chadband, expressing a considerable amount of oil from the pores of his forehead and the palms of his hands, says aloud, Yes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Plornish; the partnership expressing man and wife. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The baby begins of course with mere sounds, noises, and tones having no meaning, expressing, that is, no idea. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And,' expressing more feeling as if it were more feeling on the part of Fledgeby, 'he is right, he is right! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On my expressing some concern about what I should do, he advised me to endeavour to get some employment in the way of my business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It suggested a knowledge and an ability not based upon insight into principles, but expressing the result of a large number of separate trials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I shall take an opportunity of expressing myself to that effect. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You are driving away the _vielle cour_ by expressing those vulgar ideas. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• O Clym--I cannot help expressing it--this is an unpleasant position that you have placed me in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Then all the latent Vashti in Margaret was roused, and she could hardly keep herself from expressing her feelings. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I could not hear her disrespectfully mentioned, I added, without expressing my opinion in a decided tone. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I sat down at once to write the letter, expressing myself in it as civilly, as clearly, and as briefly as possible. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Only to ease my mind by expressing for once part of what I think, and then to make you better satisfied with yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Franklin, expressing no opinion at all, brought us back to the matter in hand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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