He was completing his studies in Paris at the outbreak of the Revolution and embraced the popular cause with all the ardor of youth.
He seemed in excellent spirits, and was just completing what was, undoubtedly, a very interesting story, since the keeper who accompanied him lingered for a moment to hear the finish.
It could not have been finished when in 1265 Clement IV rebuked his fellow citizens of St. Gilles for their delay in completing their church.
After completing the middle portal of the façade he reconstructed the central tower, whose platform he raised a story higher.
Work stopped after the completion of the east wall of the transept, whose window apertures had later to be filled in; by the XV century all hope of completing the church was abandoned, and two west towers were raised.
The quickness with which some of the women plat is really surprising; and it is well that they do so, for the quantity required for the bows alone would otherwise occupy half the year in completing it.
For Mah-Jongg or completing a hand a bonus is given and this is generally 10 points unless specially agreed upon to be so.
East having a pair of nines character in his hand "Punged," completing the set and causing West and North Winds to lose their turns.
Examples of Three of a kind Four of a kind Three in sequence ] When a player accomplishes this, he must only match the extra tile forming a pair and thus, completing his hand, having four complete sets and a pair.
The point thus illustrated being: It is not advisable to attempt the completing of a suit which all the other players are discarding unless sufficient pairs are held from the start to withstand their attacks.
A player in a limited hand gains nothing by completing a hand scoring high in the thousands when held down to the limit which is comparatively low.
His only chance lies in endeavoring to prevent the other players from completing their hands, by holding the tiles which he believes they need and thus causing a draw game.
Our wagon driver begged off from completing his contract to take us to San Giuseppe.
The fires in the ruined houses kindled the timbers, and a mighty conflagration, urged by a violent wind, soon raged among the ruins, consuming everything combustible, and completing the wreck of the city.
Meanwhile the Russians were busily completing their arrangements for striking an appalling blow.
Upon completing his term at this trade, he engaged with his brother in the cloth-shearing business, and continued in it until the general introduction of foreign cloths, after the War of 1812, made it unprofitable.
William succeeded in completing the choir as it stands to-day, but it cost him his life, for as he was superintending the finishing touches of his great work, he fell from a high scaffold and received injuries from which he died.
He was very strong on what he called "completing a thought and finishing a fact.
The special clock, on the other hand, serves for timing the different stages or motions involved in completing the task.
And now, bringing along his army encumbered with the spoil of those cities, after scarcely completing in a whole day a march of five miles, he arrived at a town called Old Beudi.
Lucullus was prevented, by a sedition in his army, from pursuing Mithridates and Tigranes, and completing his victory; the Valerian legions refused to follow Lucullus, alleging that they had served out their time.
Epinay, and that your father was resolved upon completing the match, and that from his will there was no appeal, as M.
The man, hearing nothing more, stood erect, and while Monte Cristo was completing his disguise had advanced straight to the secretary, whose lock was beginning to crack under his nightingale.
Farel and his followers, finding themselves involved in serious difficulties, appealed to Calvin to help them in completingthe work they had begun.
Before completing this brief sketch of some of the effects that Faraday's work has had on the practical arts and sciences, let us briefly examine the generating plants that are either in operation or construction at Niagara Falls.
Two or three months afterward Burton went out of town to fulfill a professional engagement, leaving material and directions for completing the next number of the magazine in four days.
But, even with so rapid a writer as the poet must undoubtedly be, there would be some little difficulty in completing the book under thirty days or thereabouts.
I found him just completing his series of papers entitled 'The Literati of New York.
A splendid atrium, surrounded with colonnades, was added to the front, completing the plan of this basilica.
She drove in silence a third of a mile before she added, as if completing the sentence: "Anyhow, the whole thing's quite absurd.
To some cause he could never explain he found himself completing the sentence on the top of the wall, having automatically followed the stranger so far.
Consternation fell upon us when Saturday morning came, and we were informed that there was small chance of completing the passage that day.
Your father had a fine face too--there is something in it that takes hold of me & that seems to be a kind of natural background or substratum to the radiant sweetness of that other sacred & beloved face completing your parentage.
As the rollers (C) feed the partially attenuated rovings the carriage recedes from the rollers a little faster than the rovings are delivered, thus completing the attenuation.
Our stay in Sydney was protracted to the unusual period of three months and a half, affording ample time for refreshing the crews after their long and arduous labours, thoroughly refitting both vessels, and completing the charts.
The two engines completing the number to Newton are nearly ready for trial, and it is to be presumed that, after the experience of the past, the makers will be enabled to put them at once into an efficient state.
Several proposals for completing the bridge were made in Mr. Brunel's lifetime, and he took every opportunity of furthering this object, which he had very much at heart.
Evelyn ought to have known his Lucretius, the first book of which he translated and which he was only prevented from completing by some foolish scruples which Jeremy Taylor wisely but vainly combated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "completing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
