Thesaurus / putting

putting

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Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an affront on the favourite of the Empress.

I know that in putting this before you I challenge some of the most popular affectations of cultivated people.

Here the speaker, putting her hand before her mouth, coughed again, and looked affectionately at the elder Mr. Weller.

We sat down pell-mell, anywhere, I next to Liszt, who kept putting things on my plate.

She was putting her papers tidy again with calm fingers, while his own were almost cramped with the energy of suppressed desire.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

Louis rallied himself to reply in her own way; and putting her arm through his, she drew him back into the rooms.

"Give us a table upstairs alone," said Nigel to the head-steward, putting something into his hand.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

This is said in the person of the Jews, resisting the repeated commands of God, and still putting him off.

"Perry Thomas guessed he was an embezzler," said Tim, putting the last dish in the cupboard and sitting down to his pipe.

He had the military trick of putting an emphatic order in the fewest and simplest words.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985