Practising

Examples

• He is practising at a German bath, and has married a rich patient. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When they arrived there, they found the old man practising his clarionet in the dolefullest manner in a corner of the room. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Go away to your practising. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He was wholly at a loss to know what could be the use or necessity of practising those vices. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But if any fraud or treachery is practising against him, I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Just feel of my knuckles, now; look at my fiSt. Tell ye, sir, the flesh on 't has come jest like a stone, practising on nigger--feel on it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault--because I will not take the trouble of practising. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She went to work at this business in a singularly cool, deliberate manner, like some surgeon practising with his scalpel on a lifeless subject. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Go to your practising, said I to her at once: away with you to the little salon! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Fred, pray defer your practising till to-morrow; you will make Mr. Lydgate ill, said Rosamond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I am practising it to excess just at this moment--I must really tear myself away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As a man, we have beheld him practising and inculcating the virtues of frugality, temperance, and industry. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Fine time for them as is well wropped up, as the Polar bear said to himself, ven he was practising his skating,' replied Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Maggiore was finished and I walked along the side street practising not limping. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• What happened with {sic} this: This young fellow had employed his afternoon at the athletic grounds, where he had been practising the jump. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• How to understand the deceptions she had been thus practising on herself, and living under! Jane Austen. Emma.
• He found, however, that it would require much practice to enable him to do this properly, and not being able to buy copper-plates for his rude essays, he thought of practising upon stones. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And some have imagined that there is no answer to the puzzle, and that Plato has been practising upon his readers. Plato. The Republic.
• Customers will be drawn to each conventicle by new industry and address, in practising on the passions and credulity of the populace. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was practising strokes, looking very fragile under the light that came down above the billiard table. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• All the dexterity and skill, it is supposed, which are necessary for using it, can be well enough acquired by practising in great bodies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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