Squaring

Examples

• I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I have been a thoughtless rascal about squaring prices--but come, dear, sit down and forgive me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Old problems like squaring the circle, trisec ting the angle, and doubling the cube, were now attempted in a new spirit and with fresh vigor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But with agriculture began the difficult task of squaring the lunar month with the solar year; a task which has left its scars on our calendar to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The geometer is always talking of squaring, subtending, apposing, as if he had in view action; whereas knowledge is the real object of the study. Plato. The Republic.
• One day the footman found him squaring his fists at Lord Steyne's hat in the hall. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Typist: Ursula