5 Metaphors for puttings

" If the putting of preachment into practice is virtue, George Sand was the most virtuous of all novelists, for the hotel of her large and roomy heart was for the entertainment of transients only.

The putting on of the muff was the most humiliating incident of my life.

Then the solar globe was the first heaven, and to live under its laws, puttings off the coat of skin, was an object which men believed to be worth striving for.

The putting in or the leaving out of the "s" in such cases is chiefly a matter of taste.

Or may it not rather be meant that the putting of these two flowers together was a happy hit of her madness, presenting the fantastic emblem of a document or writingthe very idea of which is the keeping of thoughts in remembrance?]

5 Metaphors for  puttings