Behaving

Examples

• On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This is not behaving well by the absent, said she. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• See how well he was behaving? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Bertha has been behaving more than ever like a madwoman, and George's powers of credulity are very nearly exhausted. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She was not particularly annoyed at Margaret's way of behaving. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Rosamond was convinced that no woman could behave more irreproachably than she was behaving; and she went to sit down at her work-table. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He can associate with others on intimate and equal terms only by behaving in the way in which they behave. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He's been behaving very queerly, and he is very much excited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But now, when you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man, how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He knew that Mr. Welland, who was behaving very handsomely, already had his eye on a newly built house in East Thirty-ninth Street. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• And what would be the use of behaving otherwise? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• From the first, she made a show of behaving to me with great delicacy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Some persons will be content if they are told simply that it is a way which electricity has of behaving. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I only see that you are behaving very ill, Fred, in speaking so of Mr. Farebrother after he has pleaded your cause in every way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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