Signing

Examples

• Go on,' said Mr. Brownlow, signing to Mrs. Maylie to approach. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I ought surely to know what I am signing, Sir Percival, before I write my name? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was an allegory, representing Mr. Davis in the act of signing a secession act or some such document. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They asked Pat to join them in signing the pledge, and he consented. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of her soon cheering up again, and our signing the register all round. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When Thomasin was tremblingly engaged in signing her name Wildeve had flung towards Eustacia a glance that said plainly, I have punished you now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• After that, when it came to signing the book, she pushed up her veil and signed; and Tamsin seemed to thank her for her kindness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Signing my name? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have jotted down the form here, if you would not mind signing it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She still had the pen in her hand, but she made no approach to signing her name with it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I owe you this, he said, signing the paper, as some atonement for what passed between us earlier in the evening. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He chose as his subject The Signing of the First Compact on Board the _Mayflower_. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I used to open the correspondence and answer it all, sometimes signing Edison's name with my initial, and sometimes signing my own name. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If I have a scruple about signing my name to an engagement of which I know nothing, why should you visit it on me so severely? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Very good,' said the magistrate, signing the warrants. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Editor: Moore