Selecting

Examples

• By selecting the best for its exclusive use, it strives to reinforce the power of this best. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Carefully selecting one long tress, she smoothed it down with her hands, and held it out towards her lover. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He sends--I really beg your pardon--he sends, says Sir Leicester, selecting the letter and unfolding it, a message to you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is merely selecting the stimuli supplied by the forms of the letters and the motor reactions of oral or written reproduction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In selecting for the title A Preface to Politics, I have wished to stamp upon the whole book my own sense that it is a beginning and not a conclusion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The demand for continuous attention is greater, and more intelligence must be shown in selecting and shaping means. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This does not support my view of his reasons for selecting the day he did for surrendering. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Selecting the letter from the bundle, the little lawyer laid it at Mr. Pickwick's elbow, and took snuff for two consecutive minutes, without winking. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They have no practice in selecting what is appropriate, and no criterion to go by; everything is on the same dead static level. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• That will do, said Marie, selecting one; only I'm not sure about its being properly mourning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I am no oracle to give answers, she replied, carefully selecting some buds. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Meantime, Mr. Rochester had again summoned the ladies round him, and was selecting certain of their number to be of his party. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Immediately the necessity for more care in selecting and marketing honey was apparent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the earlier days truck buyers made many mistakes in selecting the size or capacity of trucks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These companies are officered from the cadets, the superintendent and commandant selecting the officers for their military bearing and qualifications. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Checker: Walter