409 Verbs to Use for the Word setting

The next in order are the remaining two incisors of the bottom, one on each side, then two top and two bottom on each side, but not joining the incisors; and lastly, about the eighteenth or twentieth month, the four eye teeth, filling up the space left between the side teeth and the incisors; thus completing the infant's set of sixteen.

But he got a declamation prize and brought home to his mother and Laura a set of prize books begilt with the college arms, and so magnificent that the ladies thought that Pen had won the largest honour which Oxbridge was capable of awarding.

The bear seemed to expect me to begin the fight, for, after gruntin' out in a very oncivil way his surprise at makin' my acquaintance, he reared himself up on eend, and, with a fierce growl, showed a set of ivory that wasn't pleasant to look at.

The night was clear, and I took a set of lunar distances, which the cloudy weather had prevented for more than a week, though I had been able to get altitudes for latitude.

Here they remained all night, foodless and well-nigh frozen, and in the morning, finding the ice set, crossed in safety to the shore.

He asserts that he once saw a set of eight prints, depicting the deeds of Alexander the Great, each described in verse, which were engraved in relief, and printed by a brother and sister named Cunio, at Ravenna, in 1285.

He had done the master trick, not only giving himself the winning hand but also giving each of the others a fine set of cards.

Accordingly I bought him a set of tools for making combs, and procured him stock.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, having changed its period and given it an Italian setting, wove about it one of the finest and most imaginative of his short-stories, Rappaccini's Daughter.

"Captain Bill's got an extra set of new runners at the side of his scooter and wants to test them.

In applying the general rule to Sundays and week days, it will be seen that the Psalter contains two sets of Psalms for Lauds.

He exchanges professional knowledge, executive ability, and human sympathy, for money; in return for which, children receive health, parents joy, and the race a more athletic set of men and women.

It occurs frequently on the ocean, too, where the mariner is accustomed to find a heavy sea setting in one direction, the effects of some distant storm, while the breeze around him is blowing in its opposite.

She won the first set, and was five games to four in the second set, and seven times she only wanted one point to win that match.

I was unwilling that he should leave the world in total darkness, and sent him a set.'

"Looks like a little boy and a tin can with arms and legs carrying a TV set," said the other.

The second coat is muscular, having three sets of involuntary muscular fibers.

They are bound to please and entertain their readers and we urgently ask that boys obtain the complete set of six books.

You shall prepare, right now, a beautiful new artistic set of notes calculated to deceive.

Mrs. Leithcourt and her husband, a tall, thin, gray-headed, well-dressed man, both came forward to greet us, and after a few introductions I joined a set at tennis.

The Positivists of New York, at a recent meeting, passed unanimously a set of resolutions, in one of which they spoke of King WILLIAM of Prussia as the modern ATTILA.

She felt so certain of the wisdom of such a course, and so sanguine of prevailing, that she packed up her diamonds, burned many of her papers, and drew up a set of orders for the arrangement of the details of the journey.

It forms the setting, or frame-work, of an inferior story, and is not mentioned in the heading.]

There were worse cottages there than even her father's; some tradesmen in a neighbouring town had been allowed to run up a set of rack rent hovels.

He insisted that we were making a set of fools of ourselves, and that we were the laughing-stock of the people.

409 Verbs to Use for the Word  setting