Providing

Examples

• The work done by a boy who raises a 5-pound knapsack to his shoulder would be 5x4, or 20, providing his shoulders were 4 feet from the ground. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If I, as a honest tradesman, succeed in providing a jinte of meat or two, none of your not touching of it, and sticking to bread. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• By connecting them in series this potential is doubled, thus providing a main circuit (P and N) of 220 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• After watching over and providing for their safety, her second care was to hide from me her anguish and tears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I'll tell you something, returned the sergeant; I suspect that stuff's of your providing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• By this statute, the necessity of providing for their own poor was indispensably imposed upon every parish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What a man of mould may, answered Athelstane, providing it be what a man of manhood ought. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It is, in fact, the only sure way of providing against the connexion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The next step, and, perhaps the most important one, in the development of the reaper, was in providing automatic devices for binding the gavels of grain into sheaves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Let him name the ransom at which he rates our liberty, and it shall be paid, providing the exaction is suited to our means. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The latter are supposed to have time and opportunity to develop themselves as human beings; the former are confined to providing external products. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The first oven herewith shown (Fig. 17) is of the lamp-socket type, equipped with three heats, providing a very efficient oven for small operations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I accepted, providing he would pay it at the rate of $6000 a year for seventeen years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was believed that by providing proper and adequate facilities for garaging electric pleasure vehicles the use of passenger-electrics in New York City would be greatly increased. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They were all certain of one thing, and that was that his great fires were providing very ill for his family, who became in time a charge on the town’s charity. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Before she comes here say nothing about her, if you please, to the doctor, because he will look with an evil eye on any nurse of my providing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yes, Socrates, he said, and if you were providing for a city of pigs, how else would you feed the beasts? Plato. The Republic.
• In the summer, cool washed air is handled in the same way, thus providing a clean, healthful atmosphere the year around. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hence, Edison saw early the necessity of providing a place especially devised and arranged for the production of dramatic performances in pantomime. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She may be the best nurse in existence, but she is not a nurse of my providing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I ought to be happy to have an opportunity of providing for him so well. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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