Exercising

Examples

• The Count was exercising his canaries as he used to exercise them in Marian's time at Blackwater Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But they will retain their warlike character, and will be chiefly occupied in fighting and exercising rule. Plato. The Republic.
• Perhaps they are only exercising their horses. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Such occupations were considered as fit only for slaves, and the free citizens of the states were prohibited from exercising them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I like to be tender to human infirmity--though I don't get many chances of exercising that virtue in my line of life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As the eighteenth century progressed, it is apparent in the literature of the time that what to do with the poor was again exercising men's thoughts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On the contrary, it, in many cases, prohibited the manufacturer from exercising the trade of a shopkeeper, or from selling his own goods by retail. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The boss, and the bosslet, the heeler--the men who are it--all are there exercising the real power, the power that independently of charters and elections decides what shall happen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The good God of nature never made a heart capable of exercising such cruelty! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Instead of exercising their own authority, they use these boys, who are Mr. Kipling's heroes, to punish the two victims. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She departed the next day; trembling like a leaf when she took leavebut exercising self-command. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When he says that Nature's intention is to strengthen the body before exercising the mind he hardly states the fact fairly. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the hall I heard the Count still exercising his birds. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was commenced, partly as a source of amusement, and partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Typed by Jared