Receiving

Examples

• I asked first if Sir Percival was at the Park, and receiving a reply in the negative, inquired next when he had left it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Burnside had moved promptly on the 4th, on receiving word that the Army of the Potomac had safely crossed the Rapidan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I shall have the greatest pleasure in receiving him in a lower room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Receiving this reply, Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite did, what all animals (human and otherwise) do, when they find themselves caught in a trap. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He looked with smiling penetration; and, on receiving no answer, added, _She_ ought not to be angry with you, I suspect, whatever he may be. Jane Austen. Emma.
• When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were then carried through the receiving armature and reproduced on the receiving diaphragm, with all the same characteristics of pitch, loudness and quality. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Have you been writing many letters, and receiving many letters lately? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He lectured bef ore the Dublin Society in 1810, and again in the following year; on the occasion of his second visit receiving the degree of LL . Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And yet, I was perverse enough to feel a chill and disappointment in receiving no welcome, and rattling, alone and silent, through the misty streets. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• For a long time his receiving instruments would only give out vague rumbling noises. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr Dorrit was in the habit of receiving this old man as if the old man held of him in vassalage under some feudal tenure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Hence they have a difficulty in receiving the first element of improvement, which is self-knowledge. Plato. The Republic.
• Mr. Tupman had saved the lives of innumerable unoffending birds by receiving a portion of the charge in his left arm. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But Fate intervened enviously and prevented her from receiving the reward due to such immaculate love and virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The receiving instrument at the other end of the line was constructed upon much the same general lines as the transmitter, consisting of a metallic drum and reels for the paper tape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Receiving this as an intimation that it was best not to delay, I settled that I would go to-morrow, and said so. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He said he was in full communication with his department and was receiving supplies constantly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Thank you, Miss Havisham; I have not the least objection to receiving it from him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• One night, after receiving a satisfactory report of progress from Mr. Mason, superintendent of the cement plant, he said: The only way to keep ahead of the procession is to experiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this engine a cylinder was employed for receiving the steam from a separate boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the devotional literature of his cult he is spoken of as the saviour and leader of souls, leading souls to the light and receiving them again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As each of these projectiles weighed 1,400 pounds any battleship receiving such a broadside would probably have gone promptly to the bottom. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• From the time of leaving Cairo I was singularly unfortunate in not receiving dispatches from General Halleck. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A is a steam pipe communicating with the boiler, B another pipe receiving steam from A through small holes and terminating in a cone. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Thus, an extended contact was made, which, by transmitting a long impulse, resulted in the marking of a dash upon the receiving tape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I thank you; but all that you mention is nothing to me: on the whole earth there is no comfort which I am capable of receiving. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She knocked without receiving any answer, and even turned the handle, but only to find that the door was locked upon the inside. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The early arc lamps were rated to require 9 to 10 amperes of current, at 45 volts pressure each, receiving which they were estimated to give 2000 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I am very glad indeed, said Mrs. Jellyby in an agreeable voice, to have the pleasure of receiving you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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