976 collocations for fixing

And when I had fixed my eyes on his more intently than was my wont, methought I could read in his eyes words which might be uttered in this wise: "O lady, thou alone art mine only bliss!" Certainly, if I should say that this idea was not pleasing to me, I should surely lie, for it drew forth a gentle sigh from my bosom, accompanied by these words: "And thou art mine!"

If the second copy is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further opportunities to fix the problem.

It was some time before I could fix my attention on what I read; but after a while, the interest the book had previously excited returned, and I became at length so engrossed by the incidents of the story, as to forget the festival, the procession, the tiger, and the elephant, as much as if they had never before entered my head.

The Jesuits had told them of an inhabited cabin twenty-three miles up the river, and they tried to fix their minds on that.

Money's no object, the way I'm going to fix things.

It was a full-length portrait of a very young womanI might say a girl scarcely twentyin a white dress, made in a very simple old fashion, though I was too little accustomed to female costume to be able to fix the date.

"Well now, we had better fix the day for the race," said Cais to Hadifah.

Arthur was pale and stern as he fixed a reproachful gaze on the hardware merchant.

Interstate utilities were taken over and operated by the government, including the railway, telegraph and telephone lines; and government fixed prices on the necessaries of life.

Try and get them to be accurate as to the time, as we want to fix the time of the crime as near as possible.

The strain on the laboring engines indicated that the men held out and Lister fixed his thoughts on his machinery.

The Coryphodon appears to have been allied to the Miocene and later Tapirs, while Pliolophus, in its skull and dentition, curiously partakes of both artiodactyle and perissodactyle characters; the third trochanter upon its femur, and its three-toed hind foot, however, appear definitely to fix its position in the latter division.

The Red, in the spring of 986, emigrated from Iceland to Greenland, formed a settlement there, and fixed his residence at Brattalid in Ericsfiord.

German Kultur fixes an inflexible limit to the aspirations of women, while our goal is complete freedom for the mothers of men.

"Perhaps," said the abbess, "he has fixed his affections on some other lady than you his wife; and that has driven him to this state."

820. Take an old hogshead, stop up all the crevices, and fix a place to put a cross-stick near the bottom, to hang the articles to be smoked on.

We have found it necessary to fix the rate of money at interest, and the rate of labour in several cases, and if we do not in this case, what will be the consequence?a second embargo on commerce, and, perhaps, a total stop to all military preparations.

" The Congressman turned toward Carolina as he spoke and fixed on her a tense look which spelled as plainly as though spoken, "It's all in your hands, my fortuneyours.

He fixed his abode in the city of Cufa, where he died at a very advanced age.

Who, urged by fate, and fortitude their guide, On the wild surge their desperate fortune tried; Undaunted every toil and danger bore, And fixed their standards on a savage shore; What time they fled, with an averted eye, The baneful influence of their native sky, Where slowly rising through the dusky air, The northern meteors shot their lurid glare.

" Inspector Chippenfield fixed a steady glance on the butler to ascertain if he was conscious of the trap he had avoided.

In the waiting room at the head quarters of the London Fire Brigade, in Southwark Street, London, is an oak board on which are fixed a number of brass tablets, bearing the names of men who are entitled to a place on this "Roll of Honour".

Part of them, under the command of Haldene, their chieftain [n], marched into Northumberland, where they fixed their quarters; part of them took quarters at Cambridge, whence they dislodged in the ensuing summer, and seized Wereham, in the county of Dorset, the very centre of Alfred’s dominions.

(1155-1189), when Robert de Byron adopted the spelling of his name afterwards retained, and by his marriage with Cecilia, heir of Sir Richard Clayton, added to the family possessions an estate; in Lancashire, where, till the time of Henry VIII., they fixed their seat.

While leaning on a large table, fix a point on the table, and then try to arrange three small pieces of colored paper in a straight line.

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