Finding the sails of the schooner had gone out of sight to leeward, Bob manned the Neshamony, and followed as a support.
Acquainted now with his position, Mark had no difficulty in finding the entrance of this channel.
Nothwithstanding their success in finding the loam, and this last discovery of a means of getting sea-weed in large supplies to the Reef, Mark was not very sanguine of success in his gardening.
As yet, the idea of finding the sources of the Nile was not in his mind.
He easily obtained the necessary directions for finding the cottage.
He has left the house to apply to Geoffrey at Fulham, as the only means at our disposal of finding the lady.
I had some difficulty, however, in finding the house.
He was long in finding the right, but seldom failed to find it at last.
So that this method of finding the longitude, with a happy contrariety to all others, is most easy and practicable at sea.
The solution therefore consists in finding thenumber of these expansions.
I will leave the reader the pleasant task of discovering for himself the best way of finding the direction of the cuts.
I need not go, therefore, into the preliminary question of finding the dimensions of the triangle that is to equal our cross.
That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding thelength of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.
Defn: The process offinding the roots of an equation.
It was a question, then, how long they would be in finding the entrance, and how long they could live upon the flesh of the bear.
Several opportunities offered of a shot at Brahmin geese and wild ducks but, in anticipation of finding the yaks, he had loaded both barrels of his gun with balls.
They were gratified at finding the deer in the pool where it had been left; the water, perhaps, having protected it from ravenous beasts.
He walked on and on, finding the way by keeping his eye on the hills on both sides, and listened for the sounds of wheels in the distance.
Every one laughed, poor Veronica was covered with blushes, and Mrs. Mravucsan, finding the opportunity a good one, launched upon a little lecture.
Gregory crossed the Nive on to the Barcoo, which he proceeded to run down, finding the country in a very different condition from that in which it bloomed when Mitchell rode rejoicingly along what he thought was a Gulf river.
At eight, finding the depth of water had decreased to twenty-two fathoms, which we considered as a proof of our near approach to the American coast, we tacked and stood to the north.
As we should have met with some difficulty in finding the watering-place, if Mr Lannyon had not been with us, it may be worth while, for the use of future navigators, to describe its situation more particularly.
Finding the captain in a temper of mind to hearken to reason, I said to him, sir, I think it my duty to inform you that I am not the person whom you imagine to be the principal in this affair.
Or one tries by devious means to remember a forgotten word, and in the course of so doing loses track of a second name which would have been of use in finding the first.
Let us, for the present, give up the idea of finding the meaning of the dream and try instead to clear a path to a better understanding of the dream by means of the elements common to all dreams.
The dreams of neurotics, as well as their errors and haphazard thoughts, help us in finding the meaning of the symptoms and in discovering the disposition of the libido.
This time we were more successful in finding the admiral.
It must be remembered that there are several ways of finding the distance of the sun, and it will be our duty to allude to some other methods later on.
This method of finding the sun's distance holds out no prospect of a result accurate to the one-thousandth part of its amount, and we may discard it, inasmuch as the other methods available seem to admit of much higher accuracy.
The next transit was to occur in 1761, and forty-five years before that event Halley explained his celebrated method of finding the distance of the sun by means of the transit of Venus.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finding the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
