Visiting

Examples

• On the other hand the Corporation of New York commissioned him to paint the portrait of Lafayette, who was then visiting America. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You've been gadding abroad all day--visiting, dining out, and what not! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I cannot be imposed upon any more by that picture of the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He rode through the town, visiting the wounded, and giving such orders as were necessary for the siege he meditated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Since you have been in the habit of visiting here, he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I felt that my object in visiting the library was answered the moment I set eyes on them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Bishopess of Ealing was shocked beyond expression; the Bishop went and wrote his name down in the visiting-book at Gaunt House that very day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mrs. Yeobright was in this state of uncertainty when she was informed one morning that her son's wife was visiting her grandfather at Mistover. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Are you thinking of visiting the cradle of humanity? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I am not fond of dinner-visiting, said heI never was. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days with the head lama. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In one word, Sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'is my servant right in suspecting that a certain Captain Fitz-Marshall is in the habit of visiting here? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• By means of a lens one can easily get on a visiting card a picture of a distant church steeple. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The present inquiry must be simply shifted (rather sooner than I had anticipated) from this house, to the house at which Miss Verinder is visiting. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Tangier is clear out of the world, and what is the use of visiting when people have nothing on earth to talk about? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Years will pass, and you will have visitings of despair, and yet be tortured by hope. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He was very often in their house, in his flittings and visitings about the Coketown district; and was much encouraged by Mr. Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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