Fulfilling

Examples

• Adrian had been occupied in fulfilling a laborious and painful task. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She, at any rate, was fulfilling her determined purpose. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His master was dead, but nevertheless he continued fulfilling his duties in expectation of his return. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Cowards skulk about the dead, pretending that they are fulfilling a duty, and many an army before now has been lost from this love of plunder. Plato. The Republic.
• I promised you all you wished, without the slightest intention of fulfilling such promise. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He saw no way of eluding Featherstone's stupid demand without incurring consequences which he liked less even than the task of fulfilling it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yet it was less painful to see him thus, than to find him fulfilling the animal functions uninterruptedly, his mind sick the while. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Each felt, that England had never seen a Protector so capable of fulfilling the arduous duties of that high office. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This is accomplished whenever the pupil perceives the place occupied by the subject matter in the fulfilling of some experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He is fulfilling the counterpart of labour--the machine works him, instead of he the machine. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Duties are offices--they are the specific acts needed for the fulfilling of a function--or, in homely language--doing one's job. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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