Promising

Examples

• At that time he was in the prime of life, being less than fifty years of age, and possessed an admirable physique, promising long life. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And was it a hopeful or a promising thing anywhere? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And it makes a pretty and a promising picter; don't it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This was a common phrase of words which had a fair and promising sound, and I resolved to form Dora's mind. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In the evening a few circumstances occurred which he thought more promising. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was what the old dying patriarch demanded of his son Esau, promising in requital the blessing of his last breath. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This proved to be a most knotty and intricate puzzle--tricky and evasive--always leading on and promising something, and at the last slipping away leaving the work undone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Summoning the cab of most promising appearance, he directed the driver to repair to Montague Place, Russell Square. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was young Stanley Hopkins, a promising detective, in whose career Holmes had several times shown a very practical interest. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Lydgate said, Very well, with a surly obedience, and thus the discussion ended with his promising Rosamond, and not with her promising him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The present philosophy, therefore, has so far a promising aspect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It was not the most promising party to travel with and hope to gain a higher veneration for religion through the example of its devotees. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And I call it a robbery: it was like giving him the land, to promise it; and what is promising, if making everybody believe is not promising? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He began to think it was to be, and that he could not prevent ita very promising step of the mind on its way to resignation. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The reddleman looked hopeful; after these words from her his third attempt seemed promising. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He too was much distressed; and they sat down together in a most promising state of embarrassment. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I interrupted her, and insisted on taking her directly to Julia's, where I left her, promising to see her early on the following day. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A promising young angel I must have been! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I concluded here my very moral advice, and took my leave, promising to join her in our Opera-box on the morrow evening. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Let them hear how much you have improved, said Laurie, with pardonable pride in his promising pupil. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Now, this is not promising. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is a promising fellow--in his way--but he may not have it all his own way. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• His last days were saddened by the deaths of some of his most promising disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whatever affection prompted I would do without promising. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• God bless you for promising to come, cried our client. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• This is not a very promising beginning, said Mrs. Norris, when Fanny had left the room. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I remember her a most promising and beautiful child, and therefore do not wonder that she is grown, as he says, a fine woman. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There are few legumes that have shown value on dry lands, but peas, beans and alfalfa are the most promising of development. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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