89 Verbs to Use for the Word settings

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.

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.

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

Indeed the manifest absurdity of demanding it, seems to have quite forestalled the setting up of such a claim.

Athletic, muscular and systematically trained, his vigor, that was purely physical, passed readily for spiritual quality within that golden hall, where the resources of the world were all put under tribute to provide a royal setting.

This has been performed a number of times in Munich, but it is so weak and uninteresting in itself that it required a splendid stage setting, and the "historic" curiosity of Wagner's admirers to make it palatable.

The years between 500 and 450 furnish the most satisfactory setting for these prophecies.

The King will know Peel is coming in time to be able to inform the Duke of Cumberland, and prevent his setting out.

"My deah," says one, "now I think of it, I weally don't like the setting of these diamonds that you had given you last night.

The London road stretched away towards the rising sun, and to the west were swelling hills and peaks, behind which many a time Harry Esmond saw the same sun setting in after years.

And as their wedding-day approaches is it any wonder that poor ARCHIBALD looks forward to it as a condemned criminal to the scaffold, and watches day by day the setting of the sun with the same air of grim despair.

"'Tis a fitting-setting for the palace of a king," said Mr. Morris, at length.

Jewels I have of my grandmother's, which want only new-setting: another set I have, which on particular days I used to wear.

Even where regenerative settings cannot be had, I think the system of using gaseous fuel is well worthy the attention of managers; the expense of altering the existing settings to this method being very small.

Adam has prepared the setting.

A crowded House, the Peers' Gallery full to overflowing, the HEIR-APPARENT over the Clock, and the new Editor of The Times among the representatives of the Pressthe PRIME MINISTER could have desired no better setting for his speech upon the labours of the Peace Conference.

When the ground near the target is such that the strike of bullets can be seen from the firing line, RANGING VOLLEYS may be used to correct the sight setting.

What were the Middle Ages but a forgetting of Greek and Roman civilization, and what was the Renaissance but a remembering of thema striving to re-create the ruined stage-settings and to re-enact the urbane play of Pagan life.

During the remainder of the night we stood off and on and experienced a current setting in the direction of North 52 degrees West one mile per hour.

We foundeasilya man who'd been their valet, and who remembered their setting off on the hunting expedition.

Among other notable orchestral and chamber music numbers may be mentioned a setting of Björnson's Sigurd the Crusader, Bergliot, based upon the sagas of the Norse kings, a suite composed for the two hundredth anniversary of Ludwig Holberg, and a number of choice chamber music pieces.

This may be done before or after announcing the sight setting.

And so recent a writer as Mr. Richard Garnett, attracted by the subtle and magic possibilities of the conception, has given us yet another rendering, restoring to the story its classic setting, in The Poison Maid.

John would play his setting of St Ambrose's hymn, "Veni redemptor gentium," if Mr Hare would go to the bellows, and feeling as if he were being turned into ridicule, Mr Hare took his place at the handle; and he found it even more embarrassing to give an opinion on the religiosity of the music, than on the archaeological colouration of the bishops in the window.

Indeed the manifest absurdity of demanding it, seems to have quite forstalled the setting up of such a claim.

89 Verbs to Use for the Word  settings