It is worth whiledescribing once more the lie of the land in this region.
The chaplain has finished writing, and with the best grace in the world he hands me the notes in which he has just been describing his stay in Fort Vaux and the immediate surroundings from March 6 to 17.
The Charity I am describing has been singularly fortunate in its agents; but in none more so than in those who performed its responsible work in the West.
The managers of the Charity I have beendescribing have especially sought to avoid the evils of alms-giving.
Miss Granger had received numerous letters from her father during his travels, letters which were affectionate if brief; and longer epistles from Clarissa, describing their route and adventures.
He had been describing it to Lady Geraldine perhaps this afternoon, and the two had been laughing together at her credulity.
He did really admire her, with all sincerity and singleness of heart; describing her, in long confidential letters to his mother, as a woman possessed of every gift calculated to promote a man's advancement in this world and the next.
See the extract, describing the miserable state of England during the reign of Stephen, in Specimens of Early English, Part I.
Describing Robert Burns' conversational gifts, Mr. Carlyle wrote: "They were the theme of all that ever heard him.
And another prophet compared all human prosperity not to grass, but to another material even more flimsy, describing the whole of it "as the flower of grass.
Clarke's literary fame rests upon the novel 'His Natural Life,' a strong story, describing the life of an innocent man under a life sentence for felony.
Chinese scholars are conscious of these defects, and attempt to explain them by describing novel-writing as being beneath the serious attention of all those who are interested in learning.
So early was this recognized that, in describing an offer made by Hiero of Syracuse to furnish a thousand archers and slingers in 217 B.
Indeed, the defenders might reserve the great part of their forces for this moment, as is recommended by Byzantine military writers describing similar conditions.
Before describing the final struggle, it will be well to see the difficulties under which the English laboured.
In a letter describing the effects of that election, he says, "As to the commonplace balance between Opposition and Government, the election will have little effect upon it.
In the Categoriae, Aristotle dwells mainly on sensible substances (such as the vulgar understand) and the modes of naming and describing them.
But in describing the feeling of doubt, as to its matter or in its objective aspect, we must take care to use phrases which declare plainly both sides of its disjunctive or alternative character.
In describing men and the inferior animals, Plato takes his departure from the divine Kosmos, and proceeds downwards by successive stages of increasing degeneracy and corruption.
If, then, the degree of consciousness is the degree of reality, such a man will be said to exist most of all, and there will be sense and significance in so describing him.
Instead of calling them beautiful, there would be more warrant for describing women as the un-aesthetic sex.
The house I have been describing was still called The Grange, and such as I have stated had been its original destination.
In describing her present situation it was impossible to avoid mentioning her beloved France.
We shall hereafter have occasion to refer to her in describing the disaster which terminated her life.
He, too, dwells on the “surprising power and luxuriance” of the pine forests, describing them with critical skill.
At the same time, although ashore only six hours, this naturalist “gathered herbs, and brought such a quantity to the ship that the describing of them took him a considerable time.
The various terms used in describing some of the forms of the surface of grinding teeth are defined on page 345.
Before describing it therefore, the skull of the Salmon will be described, as it forms an intermediate type.
It will be most convenient to begin by describing the bones at the anterior end of the jaw and to work back thence towards the brain-case.
Before describing the development of bone it will be well to briefly describe the structure of adult bone and cartilage.
We proceed to speak of these, treated as a single subject, instead of describing them at the various parts of the building where they are to be found.
Mr Jones was spared the necessity of describing the conditions under which he had met Prudence by Prudence's own frank confession immediately on her arrival at the house.
They wrote to Ulric, describing their sorrow and their fears.
The evangelical ministers had taught that the law of celibacy was of merely human origin, imposed by Roman pontiffs in opposition to the Word of God, which, when describing a true bishop, represents him as a husband and father.
He slipped her arm through his and walked up and down the gravel path describing his conception of a novel as it had revealed itself to him a week before when he was at an Albert Hall concert.
For example, she is describing a man who has fallen in love, and who, though he used to be talkative, can now only stammer.
For example, we say “position A or B” instead of describing each hand all over again for each new sign.
With elbow at side, hold the right G hand pointing forward; move hand forward, describingcircles with the index, the result a spiral, ending with the index raised.
Sign Ride, then hold out flat hands, palm to palm, right in advance; work them up and down together, the tips describing vertical curves.
When Canning was spoken of as a Catholic statesman there was not the least idea of describing him as a member of the Church of Rome, and, indeed, the words "Roman Catholic" hardly come up in the controversies of those days.
Just at the time which we are now describing there are many conditions which made a general election likely to be especially stormy and turbulent.
Receiving this abrupt reply, I begged pardon if I had in any way startled or molested his Royal Highness; and describing myself as a stranger I besought the King to give me some account of his dominions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "describing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
