Presenting

Examples

• Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• If nothing came of it, I should be no worse off, and there would merely be a short delay in my presenting myself to Lightwood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Allow me to offer you these violets, presenting a small bouquet between his delicate finger and thumb. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Let me,' says the large man, trying to attract the attention of his wife in the distance, 'have the pleasure of presenting Mrs Podsnap to her host. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Before presenting the cheque, I asked Sergeant Cuff if he had any remark to make. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Here, sir,' replied Job, presenting himself on the staircase. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The Jury of Awards, in presenting four medals to the Edison company, took occasion to pay a high compliment to the efficiency of the system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was a ready man, and he saw, and seized, an opportunity here of presenting her own image to her, slightly disguised as her brother. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Whether Providence had taken equal care of Miss Brooke in presenting her with Mr. Casaubon was an idea which could hardly occur to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I am of a fair size, but could not have the honour of presenting myself in that room without a ladder. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority? Jane Austen. Emma.
• This constant interruption is taken by many to mean that Edison has a small opinion of any arguments that oppose him; but he is only intensely in earnest in presenting his own side. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It depends upon a unity of purpose to which details are subordinated, not upon presenting a multitude of disconnected details. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Sorel is engaged in presenting the General Strike as the decisive battle of the class struggle and the core of the socialist movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Whereupon the footman disappeared, reappeared presenting Sloppy, and retired much disgusted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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