Managing

Examples

• In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What is your great mode of smoothing and managing, Tom? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• If you'll go on managing capitally, I'll go on doing my part. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And it would, I think, be beneficial to you: it would be an advantageous way of managing the land which I mean to be yours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable _bête fauve_ my powers would revel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His mother was of sturdier stuff, passionately patriotic and a strong and managing woman. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The notion of her managing! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My brother, Harry Pinner, is promoter, and joins the board after allotment as managing director. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was a curious way of managing it, but, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I should not have wanted the will; but I should not have had the power, without our managing partner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mothers certainly have not yet got quite the right way of managing their daughters. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Mrs. Bute, that brisk, managing, lively, imperious woman, had committed the most fatal of all errors with regard to her sister-in-law. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And do you find your ways of managing do the business better than Tom's? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Her faculty for managing deserted her, or she no longer took sufficient pride in it to exert it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The managing director of the English railroad owning this line was Forbes, who heard I was coming over, and placed the private saloon at my disposal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And will you mention to me the yearly sum which would repay you for managing these affairs which we have discussed together? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The idea of his managing hundreds! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• What do you think of Fred going to live at Stone Court, and managing the land there? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That poor dear Mrs. Bullock, said Rowdy to Hollyock, as they drove away together--she is always scheming and managing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He proved to my complete satisfaction that he was perfectly incapable of managing the case. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I am managing to exist in a wilderness, but I cannot drink from a pond, she said. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I'll pound it, that Barney's managing properly. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The managing editor was absent, and so I thought no more about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The clergy, however, soon grew weary of the trouble of managing them, and found it easier to elect their own bishops themselves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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