Affording

Examples

• The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It may be of some use to the public, by affording an easy proof of the prosperous condition of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In affording you this interview, the young lady has taken a natural, perhaps, but still a very imprudent step. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I rose to take my leave, and to thank Mrs. Clements for the friendly readiness she had shown in affording me information. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Occupation alone, if I could deliver myself up to it, would be capable of affording an opiate to my sleepless sense of woe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These words appeared to be addressed to the young lady, and were perhaps uttered with the view of affording Nancy time to recover herself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Shall we then rest contented with these two relations of contiguity and succession, as affording a complete idea of causation? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Thus adjured, Lily turned her eyes on the spectacle which was affording Mr. Dorset such legitimate mirth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A series of holes can be punched round the lower edge of a fruit can, thus affording a distributing reservoir. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Those who possessed a power of living out of London, he advised immediately to quit it, affording them the means of so doing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I speak of affording some clue to his connexions, or to where he came from, or to anything concerning him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure, unconnected with his general powers. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The numerous hands employed in the one species of cultivation necessarily encourage the other, by affording a ready market for its produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Typist: Manfred