Furnishing

Examples

• I believe I and my family have also had the honour of furnishing some entertainment in the same grave place, said my guardian composedly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Two or three of the houses were occupied by the families of members of the staff; in the others boarders were taken, the laboratory, of course, furnishing all the patrons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Furnishing was necessarily expensive; but then it had to be done only once. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There is good reason to believe that Dr. Franklin had no inconsiderable share at least in furnishing materials for this work. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I must see what I can give them towards furnishing their house. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Mr. Edison has built a very interesting machine, and he has the opportunity of making a valuable contribution to the electrical arts by furnishing authentic accounts of its capabilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The proteids are the building foods, furnishing muscle, bone, skin cells, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It would not have been very evident why he thanked the anatomist, but for his furnishing the explanation in what he went on to say. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But beside all this, the bulk of our people supported themselves by furnishing the necessities or conveniences of life to the rich and to each other. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In no one thing has man shown greater fertility of invention than in lighting; to nothing does he cling more tenaciously than to his devices for furnishing light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In commerce, each aims at the satisfaction of his own wants, but can gain his own profit only by furnishing some commodity or service to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• That congressional district stands credited at the War Department to-day with furnishing more men for the army than it was called on to supply. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For furnishing current for telegraphic purposes the dynamo, and especially the storage battery, have in late years found useful application. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The voice, instead of furnishing all the power as with the present receiver, merely controlled the power, just as an engineer working a valve would control a powerful engine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Instead of furnishing a starting point for learning, they mark out a consummation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A great industry of beautiful and elaborate fabrics and furnishings developed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When he could get no other fuel he turned to the scant furnishings of his house. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The only time I ever felt badly was when I felt like a whore in Milan and that only lasted seven minutes and besides it was the room furnishings. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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