commissioning

To which did the answer refer, the commissioning, or the sailing?

For commissioning Pompey with two lictors to restore Ptolemy.

That card was the Secretarys authority for commissioning me Consul to Zurich.

The Abbe had a habit of commissioning her to visit his poor.

It is difficult to say when the custom of hoisting a pendant on commissioning the ship became established.

Mrs. Beaumont, at last, relieved his or her own impatience by commissioning Mr. Twigg to walk round the improvements by himself.

Congress supplemented the foregoing measure by commissioning young Col. Laurens to carry forward the important work suggested.

Thus divided between fear and attraction, man has fallen upon the device of commissioning some one to represent him before God.

He often talked of commissioning a poet to compose verses about that wonderful coming day at Dipwell.

I believe Misha wrote to you as though someone were commissioning me to go, but that's nonsense.