Exhibiting

Examples

• The conversation exhibiting these unequivocal symptoms of verging on the personal, Mr. Pickwick deemed it a fit point at which to interpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The liberal and advanced churches recognize this fact by exhibiting a great preoccupation with everyday affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Miss Wren's troublesome child was in the corner in deep disgrace, and exhibiting great wretchedness in the shivering stage of prostration from drink. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We made him talkative by exhibiting an interest we never betrayed to guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There was the coat in its usual place, but exhibiting, on a close inspection, evident tokens of having been worn on the preceding night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As it was, not only Edison, but all the company's directors, officers, and employees, were kept busy exhibiting and explaining the light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Holmes, Mr. Holmes, he said, turning the front of his coat and exhibiting the butt of a large revolver, which projected from the inside pocket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He did not do this by common topics of consolation, but by exhibiting the truest sympathy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Put the Major's things in twenty-three, that's his room, John said, exhibiting not the least surprise. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He held in his hand a mass of his compound of sulphur and gum, upon which he was expatiating in his usual vehement manner, the company exhibiting the indifference to which he was accustomed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Reizen in 1794, by the application of the means frequently adopted for exhibiting the light of the electric spark. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Professor Morse, said Mr. Vail, was exhibiting to these gentlemen an apparatus which he called his Electro-Magnetic Telegraph. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There stood the fair Evangeline, a little paler than the day before, but otherwise exhibiting no traces of the accident which had befallen her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He is exhibiting Socrates for the first time undergoing the Socratic interrogation. Plato. The Republic.

Edited by Astor