Proceeding

Examples

• Before I had time to feel shocked, at this, I was horror-struck by an entirely unexpected proceeding on the part of Mr. Godfrey. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My next proceeding was to gain as much additional evidence as I could procure from other people without exciting suspicion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mrs Lammle was proceeding with every reassuring wile, when the head of that young lady suddenly went back against the wall again and her eyes closed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As he was proceeding along the sands, he struck his foot against something, and fell all his length on the ground. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The hopelessness and the imprudence of this proceeding failed to strike me before I had actually written the opening lines of the letter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Each possesses a separate and independent province with its own peculiar aims and ways of proceeding. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You have, no doubt, a personal motive for proceeding, into which it is not my business to inquire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And Charley--' Mary Anne was proceeding, when Miss Peecher stared. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Accordingly, the men who were wanted were sought out and found; which was in itself a most uncivilised and irregular way of proceeding. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Miss Verinder alone stopped the whole proceeding by refusing point-blank. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was proceeding in a very summary way to practical love-making---- _Attendez, un instant, mon ange! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I saw such a perfect labyrinth of troubles involved in this proceeding that I determined to feel my ground, as it were. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His next proceeding, in case of temptation, was to throw the key out of window. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His first proceeding is to hold the piece of money to the gas-light and to be overpowered at finding that it is yellow--gold. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• For my part I see nothing so extraordinary in this proceeding of the Athenians. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Then look at the recklessness of your proceedings! Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yes, he took legal proceedings, said Mr. Skimpole. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But my name must be seen in the law proceedings. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Not that I suspect you would have the least difficulty in giving an account of your proceedings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I began to question whether my share in the proceedings was quite as harmless a one as I had thought it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Tell me--why does a time come when these matrimonial proceedings of mine begin to look like something done in a dream? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• All these are active proceedings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Down to that moment, I had vainly supposed that my creditor had withdrawn, or suspended proceedings until I should be quite recovered. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The more I thought of him, the more uneasy I felt about his future proceedings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We all thought it a pity at Frizinghall that their proceedings were not privately watched. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, characterizes them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as a rummy start. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this functionary now took the case into his own hands. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I hastened to carry the intelligence of these strange proceedings to Perdita; and we were soon joined by Raymond. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Is she kept in the neighbourhood to assert her own identity, and to stand the test of further proceedings? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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