Proving

Examples

• This proving a failure, he, in 1830, turned his attention to the improvement of rubber goods. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is impossible that I should escape this proving through the accident of a message. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Now if one half of the people is bent upon proving how wicked a man is and the other half is determined to show how good he is, neither half will think very much about the nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now, the very grossness of this flattery put Bella upon proving that she actually did please in spite of herself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• An interest in discovery took the place of an interest in systematizing and proving received beliefs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Fortunately he recovered, and in time went back to the work which was proving so invaluable for the world of science. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It's a poor tale, with all the law as there is up and down, if it's no use proving whose child you are. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The only way of proving it, however, will be to turn to our maps. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was no longer a question of quieting my young lady's nervous excitement; it was a question of proving her innocence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He may go back and tell Miss Pinkerton that I hate her with all my soul; and I wish he would; and I wish I had a means of proving it, too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The second locomotive was proving so efficient at the Killingworth Colliery that friends of the inventor urged him to look into the possible use of steam in traveling on the common roads. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The exhibition gave every sign of proving a failure when one of the spectators called out that he owned the next field and would be glad to give McCormick a chance there. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I must hope, however, that time, proving him (as I firmly believe it will) to deserve you by his steady affection, will give him his reward. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• An excellent answer, proving, I said, that we are quite conscious of a distinction between them. Plato. The Republic.
• This defiance we are obliged frequently to make use of, as being almost the only means of proving a negative in philosophy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

Edited by Ervin