Completing

Examples

• It circled (owing to the guys of one wing being loose) to the right, completing two circles and beginning a third as it advanced; so that the whole course had the form of a spiral. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Completing his resemblance to a man who was sitting for his portrait, Mr. Lorry dropped off to sleep. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The little sum is nearly made up; and I have the means of completing it, if my last reserves of life fail me sooner than I expect. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There she was, busy at work in the breakfast-parlour, of which the housemaid was completing the arrangement and dusting. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It avoided the continuous stretch on the thread of the jenny by first completing the thread and then winding it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The arrangement for completing the circuit will be more clearly understood by reference to the accompanying diagram. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But it happened that the manager of the office had a relative who was just completing a similar instrument, and Edison had forestalled him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Well, I never--said she--what an audacious--Emotion prevented her from completing either sentence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Sherman with two divisions, was in Jackson, completing the destruction of roads, bridges and military factories. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Completing this, he could find his way back to his original base, or from about Gordonsville join this army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A light bookcase contained duodecimo volumes of polite literature in calf, completing the furniture. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was no ceremony wasted in completing our incarceration. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But, how then-- Primitivo asked and paused without completing the sentence. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• An aim implies an orderly and ordered activity, one in which the order consists in the progressive completing of a process. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It has been of late asserted, that the honour of completing the experiment with the electrical kite does not belong to Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The white meat is from officers, I said, completing the old joke. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It was adjourned before completing its labors, to meet in Frederick, Maryland. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now, if everybody has done, says Judy, completing her preparations, I'll have that girl in to her tea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If found practicable, I will go to Holly Springs, and, may be, Grenada, completing railroad and telegraph as I go. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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