Restoring

Examples

• Seeing her as I saw her now, it would have been cruel to think of anything but the necessity and the humanity of restoring her composure. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• With the intention of restoring them to liberty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I have the pleasure, madam, (to Mrs. Bates,) of restoring your spectacles, healed for the present. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Pharaoh's multitude that were drowned in the Red Sea, ain't more beyond restoring to life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Shaw and her maid found plenty of occupation in restoring Margaret's wardrobe to a state of elegant variety. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• On receipt of the order restoring me to command I proceeded to Savannah on the Tennessee, to which point my troops had advanced. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bill restoring the grade of lieutenant-general of the army had passed through Congress and became a law on the 26th of February. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This career of conquest was at last arrested by the Emperor Heraclius (610), who set about restoring the ruined military power of Constantinople. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I hope so too, answered Maurice, restoring the photograph to his pocket. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The same separate handling of each piece was again involved in restoring the type to the case. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It made him look handsomer, he was so composed; it made his vicinage pleasant, it was so peace-restoring. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• What will you give me for restoring him to you? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Many royalists wanted it because they saw in war a possibility of restoring the prestige of the crown. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Biddy held one of my hands to her lips, and Joe's restoring touch was on my shoulder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Forgive your old guardian, in restoring him to his old place in your affections; and blot it out of your memory. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But first he dwells on the difficulty of the problem and insists on restoring man to his natural condition, before he will answer the question at all. Plato. The Republic.

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