Praising

Examples

• Such is their manner of praising the one and censuring the other. Plato. The Republic.
• She makes animals and birds in wood and in clay, that the people in London write about in the papers, praising them to the skies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We shew Fanny what a good girl we think her by praising her to her face, she is now a very valuable companion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Better pass half an hour in remonstrating with her than a day in admiring or praising any other woman alive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am not praising her conduct or setting her up as a model for Miss Bullock to imitate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yes, he said; the States are as bad as the men; and I am very far from praising them. Plato. The Republic.
• It was a pity he had not had Mrs. Ladislaw, whom he was always praising and placing above her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ryland began by praising the present state of the British empire. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He began praising his father's wine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She is only praising you, sir,' said Bella. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Interrogate now the three natures, and each one will be found praising his own pleasures and depreciating those of others. Plato. The Republic.
• Well, you may depend upon my not praising you, she said drily. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Now can we be right in praising and admiring another who is doing that which any one of us would abominate and be ashamed of in his own person? Plato. The Republic.

Edited by Jacqueline