Guiding
['ɡaɪdɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guide
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Examples
- The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view, black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It being one of Mr Wegg's guiding rules in life always to partake, he says he will. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Through all the Middle Ages that idea was the guiding influence in Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The point is of the utmost importance as guiding us towards the reason of the sudden quarrel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- This enterprise is carried on by a corporation called the Edison Portland Cement Company, in which he is very largely interested, and of which he is the active head and guiding spirit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are, as foreseen, means of guiding the development of a situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I do not possess the kind of information necessary; I do not possess the kind of intelligence; I want guiding. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Circumstances are guiding me to serious issues. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Direction expresses the basic function, which tends at one extreme to become a guiding assistance and at another, a regulation or ruling. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Athens for the Athenians was the guiding principle of her rule, and tax the foreigner her substitute for political wisdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It don't signify to you with your brilliant lookout, but as to myself, my guiding-star always is, 'Get hold of portable property'. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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