When passed between the fingers in the direction from root to tip, the hair glides smoothly and offers no resistance, but passed in the opposite direction it feels rough, suggesting a regular succession of minute projections.
We do not see here the mechanistic supernaturalism, which is to become important in later tales, and the effects here are crude, yet of interest in themselves and as suggesting later uses of the idea.
Burns in his Address to the De'il shows his own kindly heart and honest though ofttimes misdirected impulses by suggesting that there is still hope for the devil to repent and trusting that he may do so yet.
Every chair is as philosophically as it is beautifully constructed, and nearly every one is different from the other--one suggesting the perforated chairs of the Delhi palaces, and another the old Saxon throne in Westminster Abbey.
The first is the beauty of adequacy for a purpose, involving at once strength and proportion, suggesting what the Greeks may have meant when, in their myth, they wedded Aphrodite to Hephaistos.
The medal, illustrated facing page 12, bears on the obverse an energetic figure of a sepoy, carrying the Union Jack, with a background suggesting a camp.
The suspender is of a very appropriate character, suggesting a palm wreath issuing from a conventional cusp.
Somehow they seemed significant, at least suggesting odd trains of thought.
I will not insult you," he continued, "by suggesting that a reward of fifty pounds could possibly have influenced your attitude.
Do not think that I am suggesting any fault to you--do not think that I am forcing your confidence in any way.
I take the liberty of suggesting that you lay these facts before your father, as Mr. Flint probably has more influence with Hilary Vane than any other man.
Some people may think that I am a little harsh in my reasons for suggesting that beginners should not enter for the running part of the 3rd-class test so lightheartedly.
A great many people will laugh at me for suggesting all this gear, but I do so out of experience.
Mr Rimbolt, however perceiving that very little good was to be got out of this confused cross-examination, asked him to follow him into the library, once more suggesting to his wife and niece that they should go to bed.
Everybody had been suggesting the name of some old lady to him different from the one he wanted.
There is practically none of it near the present erosion surface; but it appears in one part of the district near an older erosion surface covered by Cambrian sediments, suggesting a different climatic condition at that time.
The Kennecott copper deposits of Alaska have a number of resemblances to the Lake Superior copper deposits, suggesting similarity in origin.
Nevertheless, in this period of high taxes following the war, there is much discouragement in the matter of exploration, suggesting that the danger point is being approached.
I am suggesting that the spirit of creation is also the spirit of destruction, and that the real object of the energy of creation is to pierce with its burning light the darkness of the objective mystery.
I am suggesting that the secrets of life only yield themselves up to a movement of desperation.
It is hoped that it will fill a good place in our Southern literature, suggesting further investigation on the same line.
This morning's papers contain an official statement from Petrograd suggestingthat the English get to work upon the west line.
Then Baker wrote a couple of pages outlining the form of such a Note suggesting an armistice.
He describes the organs of speech and their positions in articulation, suggesting teaching the pupil the sounds in order of simplicity, though he held that he must learn to write first.
What is it in the way of social alterations which the player's imagination could conceive of, which his scruples have prevented him from suggesting here?
Here is one who does not content himself with merely criticising 'professions and vocations' and suggesting improvements, but one who appears to have an inward call himself to the cure of diseases.
September, 1883, suggestingthe mosquito theory of malaria, and giving a number of observations which seemed strongly to support this view.
And so on, in an endless train of thought, one problem suggesting ten others, till the subject broadened out to the doors of Eternity itself, and the mind reeled before its own imaginings.
I begged her to take courage, suggesting she would probably laugh to-morrow at the fears she had entertained to-day.
We had been talking of George, and old Marshall was suggesting the advisability of sending out search-parties.
The scheme which I took the liberty of suggesting to Mr. Bickersteth and yourself has, unfortunately, not answered entirely satisfactorily, sir.
Had you any special reason for suggesting Number Ten?
After Richard Henry Lee had introduced his independence resolution, he proposed another one suggesting that a permanent central government be created for the new United States.
These rock strata are so straight and so symmetrical that they resemble a series of chimneys suggesting their name.
Rising above the Silent Lake is the Glacier, its moist surface suggesting that the lake is fed by a slight thaw, while the perpendicular front at the water's edge gives the impression of a berg having recently broken off and floated away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suggesting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
