Viewing
['vjuːɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of View
Edited by Candice
Examples
- All depends on our manner of viewing the objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- You remind me, then, of a young she wild creature, new caught, untamed, viewing with a mixture of fire and fear the first entrance of the breaker-in. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is the same sort of joy that comes from viewing a finished picture or a well composed landscape. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She seemed to belong rightly to a madrigal--to require viewing through rhyme and harmony. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That way of viewing and judging of the matter will be very suitable. Plato. The Republic.
- Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Here the emperor ascended, with many principal lords of his court, to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not see them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The possibility of meeting Mr. Darcy, while viewing the place, instantly occurred. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She lay awake viewing her situation in the crude light which Rosedale's visit had shed on it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It is not to be understood that such viewing apparatus is necessary in taking a surgical photograph. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Such fluorescing materials are spread in a thin layer on the side of the screen next to the observer in the viewing apparatus. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To Edison, however, no trace of sentiment or regret occurred, and the whole ruins were apparently as much a matter of unconcern as if he were viewing the remains of Pompeii. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The operations in the manufacture of the crank case, or engine pan, of the motor is of interest for several reasons, and the visitor has the opportunity of viewing these processes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I can believe she has had a struggle with her aristocratic way of viewing things; but I like her the better for seeing clearly at last. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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