I cried, "poring over the miniature of some fair lady?
Alone with my microscope, I dimmed my sight, day after day and night after night, poringover the marvels which it unfolded to me.
The other day, as I sat poring over my papers, a startling knock came to the street door.
And I can tell thee, reader, by the by, that there are worse ways of spending a few hours than in poring over such a record.
The Colonel recalled what had passed in his own mind when poring over his mother's Bible that night at his home in Ohio; and it decided him.
I do not wonder that you feel differently; any thing is warmth and verdure when compared to poring over memorials.
Alone with my microscope, I dimmed my sight, day after day and night after night poringover the marvels which it unfolded to me.
You can see him on the sixth morning of captivity squatting on his straw, poring over the Alphabet of the Morse Signalling Code, the Rules for First Aid, and so on, following the ten precepts of Scout Law.
At one time he would stand poring on the town clock without being able to tell the hour.
When she went in Philip was poring over the prayer-book, hiding his eyes with his hands so that she might not see he had been crying.
The habit of spending leisure hours in poring over books, has saved many boys from vice and ruin.
But for his taste for reading, which led him to spend his leisure moments in poring over books, he might never have known this important fact, which perhaps saved him a fit of sickness.
Instead of the spectacled and wizened faces which they were wont to see poring over their old wares, the bookstall-keepers of the city began to be haunted by that of William Henry, eager and young.
But in the embrasure of the window, poring over a map, sat one of very different mien from the common soldiers, and whose air and manner, no less than his dress, proclaimed the officer.
Dunstan has gone down to Glastonbury, for which the Saints be thanked, and I am released for a few days from poring over the musty old manuscripts to which he dooms me.
Mr. Finkelstein, when he first noticed meporing over my school-books in the shop, expressed the liveliest kind of satisfaction with my conduct.
Toward six o'clock one evening I was seated in the parlor, poring over my Complete Phonogacipher, when the door from the shop opened with a creak, and a light footstep became audible behind my chair.
And although some of the wanton professors of our age may blame thee for poring so much upon thy sins, and the pollution of thy nature, yet know that there is an advantage in it.
For hours together I would sit poring over a page till I had become acquainted with the import of every line.
And the sheets of paper he had laboriously smudged, and the hours he had spent in poring over books before he had dared to present himself at the School!
But a youth of Europe has a very material advantage over one of China, during the time in which he is said to be poring over his Latin Grammar.
Athos, and there, in another monastery, was a pale, sickly monk, poring over crabbed MSS.
When off duty, he was commonly to be found in a corner of the barrack, poring over a greasy little book, which he always carried in his pocket.
Masters William and Marlborough, having gained a reprieve from their banishment, busied themselves at the table, the one in poring over Brewster on Natural Magic, the other in solving a problem of Euclid.
Julius was of a studious turn of mind, alwaysporing through books of information; caring not what kind of information it was, so long as it was information, and not fiction.
He himself spent most of the day with the German officers, poring over maps and talking.
Ranjoor Singh had out his map when I left him, and he and the Kurd were poring over it, he tracing with a finger and asking swift questions, and the Kurd with the aid of Abraham trying to understand.
I'd be afraid to have him go up on a pile of elephants and jump through hoops like these folks," answered Bab, poring over her pictured play-bill with unabated relish.
Ben, looking out at the heavy rainporing down as if it never meant to stop.
Even Grundy, who never read anything but an occasional novel, was poring over the advertisement columns of The Daily News, with apparently great interest, while young Fletcher was equally engrossed in the broad pages of The Times.
I was sure, when we left you looking at that bit of stuff, that we would find you poring over it when we came back, so I just cut a club for you as well as for myself.
I've seen a lot o' fellows that were always poring over books, and when they came to try to do anything, they were no better than baboons!
After hopelessly poring over the Journals for some months he became quite mad, and his madness took a suicidal form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
