After practising for two hours--it was the task she set herself every day--she ate something in the kitchen and went out to her lessons.
Arriving one day at Yartsev's, Laptev found no one there but Polina, who was sitting at the pianopractising her exercises.
Mistress, I've been practising so long and I'm so hungry that my limbs are as weak as dried-up lotus-stalks.
And I've been practising so long that the pupils of my eyes are dancing, and I'm so hungry that my eyes are crackling like a lotus-seed, dried up by the fiercest rays of the summer sun.
I've been practising so long and I'm so hungry that my limbs are as weak as dried-up lotus-stalks.
His friendship with Hake began when Hake was practising as a physician in Norfolk.
At the time Southey was a poor man, thinking of abandoning literature for the law, and hopeful of practising in Calcutta.
The Irish had heard, from the few of their countrymen who had already emigrated to the United States, of the great difficulty they experienced in practising their religion.
Sir James Ware is bold enough to say that, in all her dealings with the Irish nobility, Elizabeth never mentioned religion, and their right of practising it as they wished never came into the question.
On coming to America with some of her tenantry, she secured herself beforehand against the difficulty of practising her religion; and, knowing well that no priest was to be found in the country, she brought one with her.
One-third of that time was devoted to practising the "Teinim Laegha," by which he obtained the power of understanding every thing that it was proper for him to speak of or to say.
China has also her animal magnetisers, practising the Cong fou, a mysterious manipulation taught by the bonzes, in which the adepts produce violent convulsions.
While they were learning the tricks and twists of the service, Harriet and Tommy were practising it by themselves just beyond the court, Disbrow now and then offering a criticism or a suggestion.
All their practising had been done on the private court belonging to one of the girls, so that no one outside of the few on the inside really knew what they were doing.
The latter two were practising on their own private courts and the former were staying with friends and resting preparatory to the battle to be fought perhaps on the morrow.
He makes him- self a musician by practising what he was taught.
Many questions important to be disposed of come to the Col- lege and to the practising students, yet but little time [15] has been devoted to their answer.
Then will it be understood to be of God, and not of man; and this will prevent mankind from striking out promiscuously, teaching and practising [Page 233.
He was as tall as his father, and very like him in face and shape, and he was practisingthe throwing of the spear at a mark.
That would mean that men practisingcommon and inferior arts are more diligent and energetic than those who resolve to excel in the best and most dignified subject, which no man of sense would admit.
Having arrived at this decision, he ordered the ships of the Achaeans as well as his own to muster at Lechaeum; and there he made continual experiments in practising the soldiers of the phalanx to the use of the oar.
It was after this occasion that Dr Duka, a Hungarian physician practising in London, wrote a biography of Semmelweiss, which he sent to Lister, and thus brought Semmelweiss before him for the first time.
Embalming has continued to meet with supporters in most civilised countries, but little practical result follows, for the opportunities of practising it are few and far between.
Scarcely a year passes over our heads without adding to our list of cremation-practising peoples.
He tried to say it as indifferently as he had said it in practising when he rode up, which he liked better than the tragic “NEVER!
He turned to the clerk and commanded him to enter an order immediately striking Steve’s name from the roll of attorneys practising in that court, and ordered the Sheriff to take him into custody.
And still practising his principles,” said the Senator, smiling, as he presented him to his wife.
Reports of assiduous practising had reached them; and on the previous night they had had quite a subdued altercation over a proposal of Hilda's for altering the furniture in the drawing-room.
I expect you've been drawing horses instead of practisingyour piano.
But instead of practising his tricks during the war to amuse you, he has been fighting for his country.
Diogenes indeed used to go round begging to the statues in the Ceramicus, and when people expressed their astonishment said he was practising how to bear refusals.
I am thinking of practising corporation law; I specialized in that, so I may have the pleasure before so very long of going after some of the men who do what you so aptly term the 'dirty' jobs.
The boys have been spending much of their time in the country lately, hiding in blinds, selecting a bird and practising its notes until they copy them so perfectly they induce it to answer.
As it was not one of the Great Place's days for getting out of bed, when Mr. The Englishman looked down at the young soldiers practising the goose- step there, his mind was left at liberty to take a military turn.
Instead of practising with the fifteens at football, he went in for a regular course of practice in the gymnasium, and devoted himself with remarkable success to the horizontal bar and the high jump.
Rosemary's practising that afternoon was interrupted several times by the telephone, twice for the wrong number.
You make the beds mornings, when Rosemary is doing her practising and I won't ask you to do another thing.
Rosemary was busy practising and Winnie's bread was in the oven.
A third was called upon to give an exhortation on avoiding sin, and practising virtue, which he complied with in powerful language.
As to obedience, He never ceased frompractising it from His birth to His death on the cross.
After a period of practising dances and learning games, U Pyrthat, the thunder giant, was sent out with his big drum to summon all the world to the festival.
They gathered there from different directions, and passed the time merrily, practising archery and playing on their flutes, while keeping an eye on their herds.
The forenoon, which in Hamburgh lasts till three o'clock, was devoted entirely to practising what Eck gave me.
While practisingit I received great assistance from Edward Grund, who was able to accompany through the score on the piano, an assistance, which I had never before experienced.
But, after a short rest I began again, and in this way, sometimes brought it to ten hour's practising a day, including the time that Eck devoted to me.
When I arrived, they had already given the old symphony in D major of Mozart, and some overtures by Italian masters, and were just then engaged practising one of the grand Symphonies of Haydn (B major).
This consisted, both in winter and summer, in the arrangement of a concert at Court every week, and in practising and rehearsing the orchestra in the music chosen for the occasion.
While I was practising this festal cantata with my wife and children, I sent to my brothers their chorus parts also, for the same purpose, and we all met at Gandersheim a few days before the fete-day, which was on the 26th November.
Then Eck and I followed with a concerto of his brother's, which we had been closely practisingfor the previous fortnight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
