Geikie, describing the bowlder-clay, says: "It seems to have come from regions whence it is bard to see how they could have been borne by glaciers.
James Geikie says: "In describing the till, I remarked that the irregular manner in which the stones were scattered through that deposit imparted to it a confused and tumultuous appearance.
It is in describing the nature of the mountains about Elbingerode; and he begins in ascending from Hefeld.
It is indescribing the passage of the Bon-Homme, (Tom.
The coincidences, not only in the methods of procuring wives and servants, and in the terms employed in describing the transactions, but in the prices paid for each, are worthy of notice.
The coincidences in the methods of procuring wives and servants, in the terms employed in describing the transactions, and in the prices paid for each, are worthy of notice.
The similarity in the methods of procuring wives and servants, in the terms employed in describing the transactions, and in the prices paid for each, are worthy of notice.
The mission of one of them was to capture Philipsburg; and from the camp before that stronghold the king's brother wrote many letters to Madame de Maintenon, describing the operations in progress.
The King himself was equally superstitious, for Strutt in describing the tricks of jugglers says: "Our learned monarch, James I.
Suetonius, a writer contemporary with Tacitus, describing the transactions of the same reign, uses these words: "Affecti suppliciis Christiani genus hominum superstitionis novae et maleficae.
For parsing is describing the words of a sentence as they are used.
It is describing the nature, use, and powers of words.
John Walker has regularly compared the adverb forward: in describing the latter L, he speaks of the tip of the tongue as being "brought a little forwarder to the teeth.
Wells said in describing the conditions in Utah: After the ballot was given to women the men soon came to us and asked us to help them.
Lucy Stone, describing the convention in the Woman's Journal of December 1, wrote: The local arrangements had been carefully made by Dr.
Describing the effects of woman suffrage, she said: I wish I could make you all understand that the home is not touched.
DEAR SIR: I enclose a copy of a highly interesting letter from Mr. Charles Sumner, describing the church at Brington, near Althorp, in Northamptonshire.
A letter from Mr. Sumner to Mr. Sparks also accompanies this Message, describing the church at Brington, and some of the associations which cluster around the resting-place of the ancestors of our Washington.
Judge Iredell and I happened to sit together," wrote Vice-President Adams, describing the scene.
Huxley, in describing the development of the Hydrozoa--the endoderm and ectoderm.
Frequently and admirably has Burns given way to these impulses of nature; both with reference to himself and in describing the condition of others.
He admitted the power of Byron in describing the workings of human passion, but denied that he knew anything of the beauties of Nature, or succeeded in describing them with fidelity.
It is extracted from one we have just seen, written by a private in the army of Sheridan, describing the death of a private.
In describing the discontent in distant provinces under brutal pro-consuls, which contributed largely to the final disintegration of the Roman Empire, Gibbon says: The cry of remote distress is ever faintly heard.
Describing the ceremonies of the inauguration of civil government in Cagayan, the Wilcox-Sargent report to Admiral Dewey says: The Presidentes of all the towns in the province were present at the ceremony.
In describing the operations of the Household Salvage Brigade I have referred to the enormous quantities of good sound food which would be collected from door to door every day of the year.
Similar cases, describing the deliverance of drunkards from the bondage of strong drink, could be produced indefinitely.
Before venturing to define the remedy, I begin by describing the malady.
The word appoint is not the most appropriate word for describing the result of a popular election.
Describing the occasion, Miss Sallie Joy, in a letter to a Boston paper, says: The west is evidently wide awake on the suffrage question.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "describing the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
