They require neither penning up nor cramming to acquire plumpness, and if well fed should be fit for market in eight or ten weeks.
In penning the following pages I have endeavored to be truthful.
Before me, borrowed for reference in penning these reminiscences, is a pile of letters, written during my travels to my old pal, Jim.
I once criticized a certain Admiral for consuming an hour or so in laboriously penning a letter which could have been dictated to a stenographer in a few minutes.
On Holy Saturday the penning in of the bulls destined for the corrida took place in the small hours of the night, and Dona Sol wished to assist in this operation as piquero.
With starboard engine clawing her backward, and the port engine driving her ahead, the Montana swung her huge bulk when she was free of the penning piers.
He wanted to throw down his hammer and chisel and scream and kick and throw himself up against the penning planks.
Were you not hard at work penning a missive to some happy soul who enjoys your confidence?
And when the headquarters of a grazing estate, still less; its inclosures consisting chiefly of "corrals" for the penning and branding of cattle, these usually erected in the rear of the dwelling.
While penning these slight memoranda, little dreams the Chilian skipper how important they may one day become.
At about the period when Currer Bell was penning Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre Branwell was a source of considerable distress to her.
At the time he heard the whispers which gave rise to them, he had been actually penning a letter to his father, declaring his attachment--he now resolved not to write.
I hear of nothing new likely to appear; all the world is taken up in penning addresses, or in presenting them;(118) and the approaching elections will occupy the thoughts of men so much that an author could not appear at a worse era.
In the meane time it is lamentable to see, how it is and hath beene choked of late with sands and shelues, through the penning and wresting of the course of the water for commodities sake.
Howbeit, I refer not this successe wholie vnto my purpose about this Description, but rather giue notice thereof to come to passe in the penning of my Chronologie, whose crums as it were fell out verie well in the framing of this Pamphlet.
Benedick is convicted, to the amusement of his friends, of penning 'a halting sonnet of his own pure brain' in praise of Beatrice.
Deliberate as he always was, when voicing any estimate as President, never was he more deliberate than when penning that moral explanation of the war.
In the meantime the Syracusans closed the mouth of their harbour with a strong boom, penning up the Athenian fleet.
She regretted having taken Jessica into her confidence, and avoided penning a word which, if read by any one but her correspondent, would betray the perilous secret.
It was mere amanuensis work, penning at the dictation of his sarcastic demon.
After penning the foregoing, the Laureate does not appear to have troubled himself further respecting Professor Wilson.
Mr. Lang devotes his mornings to writing books and magazine articles, and the afternoons to penning leaders for the newspapers.
Even while Page was penning these lines great events were taking place in France and the American troops were having a large share in them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: check; constraint; lockup; restraint; restriction
