Treating

Examples

• The Bessemer process is now largely used in treating copper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The pulp was laid by hand upon moulds made of parallel strands of coarse brass wire; and the making of the pulp by grinding wood and treating it chemically to soften it was experimental. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The bark of trees made into a liquor has been used for centuries in treating practically all kinds of hides. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We have seen, in treating of safes and locks, how burglars keep pace with the latest inventions to protect property by the use of dynamite and nitro-glycerine explosions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The heat-treating department contains about seventy-five large furnaces, which consume from 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel oil per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Steel making consists mainly in so treating cast iron as to get rid of a part of the carbon and other impurities. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He is treating himself for it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• From the treating and cutting of the raw material, from the outer bound edge, and the band about the body, to the tip of the crown, a machine may be found for performing each separate step. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Treating Perker's offer of eighteen bob a week, and a rise if he behaved himself, like dirt,' replied Lowten. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But some of the visitors alighted and did not depart after the handsome treating to veal and ham. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the previous century Mayow had obtained nitric oxide by treating iron with nitric ac id. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity, and amusing them by his military airs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They had been treating their guard, I suppose, for they had a gaoler with them, and all three came out wiping their mouths on their hands. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I've been treating 'em all round. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Gun cotton is made by treating raw cotton with nitric acid, to which a proportion of sulphuric acid is added to maintain the strength of the nitric acid and effect a more perfect conversion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The pupils learn a science instead of learning the scientific way of treating the familiar material of ordinary experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In treating them justly I fulfil my whole duty towards them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Ill-treating the boys, you covetous, avaricious, in-sa-ti-a-ble old fence? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Here was begun the copying of manuscripts, and the preparation of compendiums treating of gramma r, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Especially as I should have many opportunities, afterwards, of treating that woman, his mother, in her own style. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Soon we returned to shore, and I endeavoured to obviate the impression made on the child's mind, by treating Raymond's fears lightly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is customary to frown upon such aimless random activity, treating it as willful mischief or carelessness or lawlessness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I had entered the room, feeling that Sir Percival Glyde had fair reason to complain of the manner in which she was treating him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was forever ill-treating her, and she too proud to complain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• To describe them as fools only seems like treating them with an indulgence to which they have no claim. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is into these furnaces that the various forgings are placed for heat-treating. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It will be treating me as if I were a child. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A dashing way he had of treating me like a plaything, was more agreeable to me than any behaviour he could have adopted. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Could anything be so flattering as Mrs. Ferrars's way of treating me yesterday? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The process of heat-treating steel forgings before they are machined is one of the most scientific and accurate features in the manufacture of this car. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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