448 collocations for testing

My only theory was that they had wished to test my strength and determination.

But when carefully tested by scientific men in Padua, his attempts to discover buried metals completely failed; and at Florence he was detected trying to find out by night what he had secreted to test his powers on the morrow.

" An opportunity of testing the racing qualities of the horse was soon afforded.

The inspector was not convinced, and determined to test the truth of this statement.

" Accordingly, he picked up a heavy piece of wood that chanced to be lying close by, and which doubtless Obed had used before in order to test the accuracy of his figuring.

Believe that the learned, wise, and good, for 1800 years, may possibly have found out somewhat, or have been taught somewhat, on this matter, and test their theory by practice.

" It is a time of sifting, when men of all nations in civilization in these critical days are again testing the value even of those political institutions which have the sanction of the past.

Did you not do it to test his courage, because all these fifteen years you have made yourself a fool with the fear that he became a student only to escape being a soldier?

Thus, a popular French onewhich many of our young people also practiseis for lovers to test the sincerity of their affections by taking a daisy and plucking its leaflets off one by one, saying, "Does he love me?a littlemuchpassionatelynot at all!"

It was a dark and stormy time, well calculated to test the skill and endurance of mountaineers.

One goes to see SEEBACH, not to laugh, but to test one's ability to suppress the desire to weep over the woes of MARGARET, and to mourn with MARY STUART.

Mischief still sat triumphant therein, and not a day passed but some poor uninitiated was brought to test the merits of that gift.

"I was simply testing your memory by claiming to be an old friend.

Once the newcomer shifted his position a little, and Sinclair saw him test the weight of the stool beneath him with his hand.

It took, of course, much more minute observation and a much longer time to test the effect produced by the regulation of the movement, since whether I traveller forty, forty-five, or forty-two thousand miles in the course of one hour made scarcely any difference in the diameter of the Earth's disc, still less, for reasons above given, in the gravity.

What is the best way of testing a horse's temper?

They and their forbears, they tell you, have been the officiating priests for years; wherefore, desirous of testing their knowledge, you enquire who built these mighty dwelling-places.

How are you going to maintain your position in society?" "I don't believe I care to test the question, Aunt Kate; but I think my position will maintain itself.

"The absence of three months shall test our love."

In another minute all of them were bending low over the spring, testing the delightfully clear waters of the same.

The 1st of May of the ensuing year was fixed for their meeting; and the arrangements for and the management of an assembly, which, as not having met for nearly two hundred years, could not fail to present many of the features of an entire novelty, were a task which would have severely tested the most statesman-like capacity.

Then he oiled the press, started it going a few revolutions, to test its condition, and handled the machinery so dexterously and with such evident confidence that Larry nodded to Fitz and muttered, "He'll do.

I tested the thing in my mouth and between my fingers.

The appeal may be made for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of a law.

On November the 1st a reconnaissance by car was ordered, to test the practicability and the need of accelerating the forward movement of our guns.

448 collocations for  testing