Delivering

Examples

• The thing delivering such utterance must rest ere it could repeat the effort. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Whether they received any pecuniary reward for pleading, or delivering their opinions? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• How think you, Sir Brian, were we not better make a virtue of necessity, and compound with the rogues by delivering up our prisoners? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You might have spared yourself the trouble of delivering that tirade, answered Georgiana. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Perhaps you will not mind delivering it? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Talk not to me of delivering any one, said Athelstane; it is well I am delivered myself. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It was long, and I was in torture while he was delivering it, fearing something would be expected from me in response. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The stately lady, Mrs Wilfer, perceiving her opportunity of delivering a few remarks from the throne, here took up the altercation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I waited upon the stationer, who came first in my way, delivering the letter as from Governor Keith. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• What with his blooming face, and that head, and his blue eyes, he seemed to be delivering sentiments of rare wisdom and virtue. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I told her what had passed, delivering verbatim the courteous message with which I had been charged. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The gunboats ran up close under the bluffs, delivering their fire in return at short distances, probably without much effect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Thus delivering himself, Mr. Pell thrust his hands into his pockets, and, frowning grimly around, rattled three halfpence with terrible determination. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Nancy had seen her slip out with a letter in her hand, and stop the butcher's man who had just been delivering some meat at the back door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The ceremony of delivering the keys had better come off forthwith. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Miss Meg March, one letter and a glove, continued Beth, delivering the articles to her sister, who sat near her mother, stitching wristbands. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of delivering my words, which, however, they understood very well. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Here is the paper, madam,' said the Jew, delivering into Miss Potterson's hands the original document drawn up by Rokesmith, and signed by Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• While delivering these valedictory observations, Wegg continually disappointed Mr Boffin of his hand by flourishing it in the air. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• By law, the deviation from the standard weight, in delivering to him, must not exceed three pennyweights in one thousand double eagles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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