Forming

Examples

• In the same odd way, yet with the same rapidity, he then produced singly, and rubbed out singly, the letters forming the words Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Carr's division was deployed on our right, Lawler's brigade forming his extreme right and reaching through these woods to the river above. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had a great deal of difficulty in forming a company to finance it, but he was a man of much perseverance, and at length he succeeded. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In my situation, it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on Mr. Crawford. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I never could, even in forming a common acquaintance, assert or prove a claim to average quickness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Round and round the meadow went horse and man, forming so striking a sight that Maurice and Crispin paused in their dressing to look at it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• As was pointed out in the discussion of habit-forming (ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• When chemical action between the water and carbide has ceased, and gas bubbles have stopped forming, slaked lime is all that is left of the dark gray crystals which were put into the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These machines mark an important departure, which consists in working the buttonhole by moving the stitch forming mechanism about the buttonhole, instead of moving the fabric. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Now only the image-forming silver bromide particles remain, and these have been transformed to metallic silver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Your power of forming an opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You might marry a professional man, or somebody of that sort, by going into the town to live and forming acquaintances there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They are inevitable as the spirit and quality of an activity having specific consequences, not as forming an isolated realm of inner consciousness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was incredible, the number of things he had to say to her, and in what eloquent order they were forming themselves on his lips . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I wished to come as near forming a correct idea of how it was going to look, as possible; I had a curiosity to see how much I would err. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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