2160 examples of compounding in sentences

But barely had I commenced the preliminary lessons of compounding when the trouble came upon our house, and my sister and I were brought away from the old home to Bombay and bidden to find the wherewithal to support those to whom we owed respect and affection.

Now, as Nature keeps up this inexhaustible variety of individual genius which individual quickening requires, so on the larger scale is she ever working and compounding to produce varieties of national genius.

and then it was not difficult for his woman to induce him, by way of compounding with Heaven, to marry her.

Some of the bronze vases found at Thebes and other parts of Egypt show great skill in the art of compounding metals, and were highly polished.

Sir Kenelm Digby & other persons of Honour, their rare and incomparable secrets of Physick, Chyrurgery, Cookery, Preserving, Conserving, Candying, distilling of Waters, extraction of Oyls, compounding of the costliest Perfumes, with other admirable Inventions, and select Experiments, as they offered themselves to their Observations, whether here or in Forrein Countreys. 13.

It lays up interest and keeps compounding.

Taking the loss in these years, and compounding it with that in the fatal year, three sailors had been lost; but taking it in these four years by themselves, only two had been lost in twenty-four vessels so employed.

Opportunities for this method are especially frequent in the German language, since so many German words are formed by compounding other words.

That alone, in five years and a half, would amount to over three hundred dollars, even without compounding.

Still thy skill in compounding it I not deny.

Since, amid the innumerable multitude of ideas, it is not possible to assign to each one a definite sign, the indispensable condition of language is found in the power of abstraction, that is, in the power of generalizing ideas, of compounding many ideas into one, and of indicating by the names of the general ideas, or of the classes and species, the particular ideas also which are contained under these.

He proposed to let the whole matter drop and take the loss of the diamonds on himself; but I pointed out that this was impossible as it would practically amount to compounding a felony.

She had a hand in the compounding of almost every bridecake, and had been known to often leave houses of feasting, to prepare weary earth-worn travellers for their final place of rest.

[Illustration: THE COMING ARMY FATHER: "Here's to the fighter of lucky eighteen!" SON: "And here's to the soldier of fifty!"] For now from German lips the world may know Facts that should want some skill for their confounding How Potsdam forced alike on friend and foe A war of Potsdam's sole compounding.

Practice is here so capricious, I find it difficult to determine whether the compounding of these terms is proper or not.

"This compounding of words need occasion no surprise.

When the possessive case and its governing noun merely help to form a regular phrase, the compounding of them in any fashion may be reckoned improper; thus the phrases, a day's work, at death's door, on New Year's Day, a new year's gift, All Souls' Day, All Saints' Day, All Fools' Day, the saints' bell, the heart's blood, for dog's meat, though often written otherwise, may best stand as they do here.

"Poetry admits of greater latitude than prose, with respect to coining, or, at least, new compounding words.

Does the compounding of words necessarily preclude their separate use?

" Besides, the word other is declined, like a noun, and has the plural others; but the compounding of another constrains our grammarians to say, that this word "has no plural."

SEE VON BERNEWITZ, M. W. Scoville's The art of compounding.

POWERS, JUSTIN L. Scoville's The art of compounding, by Justin L. Powers & George E. Crossen.

POWERS, JUSTIN L. Scoville's The art of compounding, by Justin L. Powers & George E. Crossen.

which proceeding, as it is not very old among us, so I take it to be of most pernicious consequence: It looks like a sort of compounding between virtue and vice, as if a woman were allowed to be vicious, provided she be not a profligate; as if there were a certain point, where gallantry ends, and infamy begins, or that a hundred criminal amours were not as pardonable as half a score.

" "Why," replied Mr. Johnson, who had been compounding this jest for some days, and now saw his opportunity to deliver it with effect at short range, "your trenches got raided last Wednesday, when you was in' em.

2160 examples of  compounding  in sentences