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Sentences starting with reading

Reading is so universal, even with the uncultivated, that it is common to hear people mispronounce words that you did not suppose they had ever seen. [4]
Reading that in the light of the past, he was ready. [11]
Reading those verses put hope into me. [11]
Reading it over now, with more light and a juster knowledge of character and of measures, is it not probable that he would find it a tissue of misconceptions? [4]
Reading these letters, Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life, he was living so calmly and quietly. [2]
Reading about foreign life does not give one at all the same impression of it that seeing one who is a part of it does. [4]
Reading as he did, he must have unconsciously appropriated a great number of thoughts from others. [6]
Reading itself is almost too much of an effort. [4]
Reading the letter again, hatred, doubt, even sorrow, passed from her, and her imagination pictured the hour when, disguise and secrecy ended, he would step forward before all the world and say: "I take Rosalie Evanturel to be my wife. [11]
Reading this book again now after all these years, I feel convinced that the book is truly Jersiais, and I am grateful to it for having brought me out from the tyranny of the field in which I first sought for a hearing. [11]

Sentences ending with reading

Hardy was thirty years old, and a bachelor; pale, given to reverie and reading. [5]
We were some weeks longer together, but he never offered to continue his reading. [6]
That is the way with poets and scholars; they always sign without reading. [5]
Just as I was losing sight of the skirt of trees at Grand Pre, a gentleman in the dress of a rural clergyman left his seat, and complimented me with this remark: "I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading. [4]
His mornings he was likely to pass in bed, smoking--he was always smoking--and attending to his correspondence and reading. [5]
In this particular volume what interested me most, perhaps, was the very spirited and intelligent account of the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of Saint Januarius, but it gave me an hour's mighty agreeable reading. [6]
In winter he visited his other villages or spent his time reading. [2]
There was something very like a sneer on his face when he finished reading. [11]
My profit is various in kind and degree; but the feature of it which I value most is the zest which that early experience has given to my later reading. [5]
Then he held up the edition de luxe from which he and Miss Thorn had been reading. [9]

Short sentences using reading

Let me finish reading, please. [5]
There is a reading set. [4]
Her aunt was quietly reading. [4]
Marvell, Andrew: reading by C.C. [6]
She began reading again. [11]
Second reading, July, 1858. [9]
Reading an ukase! [2]

Sentences containing reading two or more times

Did they get through the tutto tremante passage, reading from the same old large edition of Dante which the Tutor recommended as the best, and in reading from which their heads were necessarily brought perilously near to each other? [6]
In reading to themselves they glide over these words, in reading aloud they stumble over them. [4]
About the hour that I was reading it in the cars, Twichell was reading it at home and forthwith fell upon me with a burst of enthusiasm about it when I saw him. [5]
Do they come out of school with the habit of continuous reading, of reading books, or only of picking up scraps in the newspapers, as they might snatch a hasty meal at a lunch-counter? [4]
Maybe that was on account of Lohier's remark upon that head; or maybe it was hoped that the reading would kill the prisoner with fatigue--for, as it turned out, this reading occupied several days. [5]
They are--the best of them--only reading exercises; and reading is not perceived to have any sort of value. [4]
In some recently-published observations by Phelps upon the philosophy of reading is laid down this definition: "If I understand the necessity or use of reading, it is to reproduce again what has been said or proclaimed before. [4]
It must be kept in mind that reading, silent reading done by the scholar, is not learning signs and calling words; it is getting thought. [4]
Two or three clerks that were reading the newspapers looked at me rather hard, but went on reading, and nobody said anything. [5]
Now, to reproduce by reading, the reading should be so perfectly like the original that no one standing out of sight could tell the reading from the first time the language was spoken. [4]

More example sentences with the word reading in them

I go from your philosophical discussions to the reading of Jeremy Taylor's "Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying" without feeling that I have unfitted myself in the least degree for its solemn reflections. [6]
The receipt of your letter, and the reading of some of the criticisms this morning, have rendered me nervous for the whole day. [4]
I recognize in your arguments that which smacks of his tongue, despite what he says of your reading the public prints and of forming your own opinions. [9]
A very interesting young man, the Deacon said, much given to the reading of pious books. [6]
Oh, I know you do not so misjudge me," she added, reading his quick protest in his face. [9]
Submit to what you cannot avert; just as I never complain when, if I make a mistake in reading, she snatches the book from my hand, or flings it at my feet. [10]
With growth of years had come increase of piety, and it was his custom once a week to gather about him such of the servants as would for the reading of Scripture. [11]
And now, a year later, when I read the cablegrams I seem to be reading of what I myself partly saw--saw before it happened--in a prophetic dream, as it were. [5]
They have been written with reverence, and the reading of the proofs has brought back to me vividly the long winters in which I pondered over the matter they contain, and wrote and rewrote the chapters. [9]
M. Howells had written that he would be glad to help out in the reading of the proofs of Huck Finn, which book Webster by this time had in hand. [5]
To read and write were still rare accomplishments in the country, and Dogberry expressed a common notion when he said reading and writing come by nature. [4]
But verily she would do yet more, and spare him the pains of reading it. [10]
The letter is worth reading today, if for no other reason, to show the absurdity of copyright conditions which prevailed at that time. [5]
The moment the words were out of her mouth Massieu was reading to her the abjuration, and she was repeating the words after him mechanically, unconsciously--and smiling; for her wandering mind was far away in some happier world. [5]
It was a woman reading a woman. [4]
It all began with the news Milly Skinner had got from the stage driver, imparted to Jethro as he sat reading about Hiawatha. [9]
I finished off with reading some verses of my friend the Professor, of whom you may perhaps hear more by and by. [6]
Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical survey of our last two unfortunate campaigns, and with drawing up a proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. [2]
He regarded them with a detached curiosity as they entered, reading them with a new insight. [9]
And when the windows on the orchard side showed a gray square of light, he flung down the parchment he was reading on the table. [9]
The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
A summer resident who, to satisfy his lust for office, is rolling to defame--'" "Yes," interrupted Mr. Crewe, "never mind reading any more of that rot. [9]
There are some who say that those are happiest who keep at home and content themselves with reading about the lands of the imagination. [4]
The foolish writers who insist on one's reading through their manuscript poems and stories ought to know how fatal the request is to their prospects. [6]
His hospital companions, who had gathered round Rostov--a fresh arrival from the world outside--gradually began to disperse as soon as Denisov began reading his answer. [2]
Tom's voice trembled whilst he was reading them, and he most broke down. [5]
Once in a while I paused to ask him a question as he sat with his chair tilted back and his feet on the table, reading a detective story. [9]
By the article which I have been reading I find the same things happening in the Howland School that we have become familiar with in our Children's Theatre (of which I am President, and sufficiently vain of the distinction. [5]
Certain it is, when reading them, I live his life over again. [9]
It seemed different when read as Old Roses was reading it. [11]
Yet, in 1895, when he was sixty years old, he decided to rebuild his fortunes by making a reading tour around the world. [5]
He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies. [2]
If only that were true which Zoe was reading yesterday, that the souls of men were destined to visit the earth again and again in new forms! [10]
And yet you were reading the Bible! [9]
Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms. [2]
If every one were as perfect in the marriage relation as those who are reading these lines, the question of the wife's letters would never arise. [4]
And then I went to see him afterwards, in the parish house--you remember?--after we had been reading modern criticism together, and he told me that the faith which had come down from the fathers was like an egg? [9]
When Mrs. Mavick went to her daughter's apartments she found Evelyn reading aloud and Miss McDonald at work on an elaborate piece of Bulgarian embroidery. [4]
When Michael Ivanovich went in there were tears in the prince's eyes evoked by the memory of the time when the paper he was now reading had been written. [2]
Been reading Daniel Webster's Private Correspondence. [5]
I am afraid we should get a good deal confused even in reading our Shakespeare if we did not look back now and then at the dramatis personae. [6]
At this point we have an episode: Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
A young gentleman was walking at her side, and reading to her from a paper he held in his hand. [6]
Her lady-in-waiting, Zoe, was reading to her, not this time from a Greek philosopher but from a Greek translation of the Hebrew Psalms: a discussion as to their poetic merit having arisen a few days previously at the supper-table. [10]
Gifted Hopkins, who was reading some of his last poems to her, with great delight to both of them. [6]
You think I was reading it? [9]
Miss Lamont, who was reading at the other end of the car, gave a nervous start, and looked up in alarm. [4]
The head apprentice was reading aloud the accounts for the burials of the month, while the master checked off the items, nodding approval, commenting, correcting or condemning with strange expletives. [11]
A ranch man was reading aloud an article from a newspaper printed two hundred miles away. [11]
The reading tour was one of triumph. [5]
When the reading was finished, he gave a dry little laugh, and came down to the Governor, apologizing for his lateness, and bowing to the rest of us. [11]
When her schooling was finished she let her school friends drop, and came back to Bonaventure, rather stately, given to reading, and little inclined to bother her head about anybody. [11]
Considering that he was expected to go to bed at eight o'clock, one would say that the opportunity for study was not great, and that his reading was rather interrupted. [4]
This reading, as was always the case at Anna Pavlovna's soirees, had a political significance. [2]
One day there was a private reading in the Queen's chamber of the palace. [11]
Abner Briggs, Junior, was a great, hulking fellow, who had been bred to butchering, but urged by his parents to attend school, in order to learn the elegant accomplishments of reading and writing, in which he was sadly deficient. [6]
Paulette Dubois, the wanton woman, had just left his doorway secretly, yet there he was, instantly after, calmly reading a pious book! [11]
He had a volume of Walton's Polyglot open before him, and was reading Job in the original, when she entered. [6]
The reading brings vividly back to me my pet and pride. [5]
He spent his visits reading to Mr. Carvel, who sat in his chair all the day long. [9]
It draws the virtue out of what is best worth reading, as hot water draws the strength of tea-leaves. [6]
It becomes a very serious matter when the reading itself is vapid, frivolous, or bad. [4]
It is a very bad thing for the memory and the judgment to get into a habit of reading carelessly or listening with distracted attention. [4]
At length I ventured to give him a hint that our young friend and myself would both of us be greatly gratified if he would begin reading from his unpublished page where he had left off. [6]
He had the useful gift of reading the minds of people in their faces. [11]
We are getting used to driving right into the central court of the hotel, in the midst of a fragrant circle of vines and flowers, and in the midst also of parties of gentlemen sitting quietly reading the paper and smoking. [5]
He folded it up without reading it and reread his father's letter, ending with the words: "Gallop off to Korchevo and carry out instructions! [2]
She had picked up the letters, every one, and stood reading them with parted lips and staring eyes. [9]
But I sat up pretty late reading my favorite Scott. [6]
Dr. Butts sat up late at night reading these papers and reflecting upon them. [6]
Master Gridley shut up his book, leaving Solomon to his fate, like the worthy Benedictine he was reading, without discussing the question whether he was saved or not. [6]
I took them up again a few years ago, after reading with genuine pleasure in Otto Ribbeck's masterpiece, The History of Roman Poetry, the portions devoted to Plautus and Terence. [10]
He may not unreasonably look for some general estimate of the life work of the scholar and thinker of whom he has been reading. [6]
The burgomaster quietly unfolded it, and, while reading its contents aloud, the notary and city clerk looked over his shoulder. [10]
Maude was seated under the lamp at the end of the big room reading from "Don Quixote"; Matthew and Biddy were at her feet, and Moreton, less attentive, at a little distance was taking apart a mechanical toy. [9]
He was sitting under a willow at the billabong, reading over and over to himself the address to be delivered before the Governor in the evening. [11]
Watchful, yet apparently unconcerned, unmoved by the quarrels, the fierce demands for "action," he sat on the little stage, smoking his cigars and reading his newspapers. [9]
I was wholly unaware that Mr. Vallandigham was, at the time of his arrest, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor until so informed by your reading to me the resolutions of the convention. [7]
During the past two years I have been reading through a group of writers who seem to me to represent about the best we have--Sir Thomas Malory, Spenser, Shakespeare, Boswell, Carlyle, Le Sage. [5]
One of the two weekly half-holidays was required for the catechism, and the only relaxation from the three church services on Sunday was the reading of "Pilgrim's Progress. [4]
At length she turned away, and walking thoughtfully through the churchyard, came unexpectedly upon the schoolmaster, who was sitting on a green grave in the sun, reading. [12]
And the vellum-bound Tulpius, which I came upon in Venice, afterwards my only reading when imprisoned in quarantine at Marseilles, so that the two hundred and twenty-eight cases he has recorded are, many of them, to this day still fresh in my memory. [3]
But it remains true that the greatest dramas, those that have endured from the Greek times down, have been (for the audiences of their times) both good reading and good acting plays. [4]
He thought she took pleasure in having him push her wheel-chair up and down the piazza at least she rewarded him by grateful looks, and complimented him by asking his advice about reading and about being useful to others. [4]
I have had too much writing to do, myself, to find all the time for reading and study I could have wished. [6]
If it is too good, too pronouncedly good, I fear I shall not like it so well on a second reading. [4]
Indeed Miss Bronte told me that, before publication, she had sent those parts of the novel in which these remarkable persons are introduced, to one of the sons; and his reply, after reading it, was simply that "she had not drawn them strong enough. [14]
You show it to your friends, reading to them the French name, which you can never remember, on the label; and you take an honest pride in the successful fruit of long care. [4]
The business is to teach the pupils to read; how they shall use the art of reading is little considered. [4]
In order not to take up their time he asked: therefore, that it be immediately put on its second and third reading and allowed to pass. [9]
I often went to sleep in the chapel on Sunday, when I was not reading some entertaining book. [4]
Does he hope to secure a hearing from those who have come into the reading world since his coevals? [6]
I dearly love to read books, and I never tire of reading yours; they always have a charm for me. [5]
For she wrote to Miss Lucretia about her life and her reading, as that lady had made her promise to do. [9]
Instead of continuing to listen to the Greek sentences which Herr Wilibald Pirckheimer was reading aloud to the others, he could not help thinking of the pious, gentle little woman who, with her cheerful kindness, so well understood how to comfort and to sustain courage. [10]
As Rosalie listened to his reading, a hundred thoughts rushed through her mind. [11]
Jinny is reading to him now, or she would be here to entertain you, Mr. Brice. [9]
He listened breathlessly to hear what more the Indian might say; but Arjuna, who regarded it as sacrilege to waste the highest lore on one unworthy of it, went on reading to himself, and Adventus stretched himself out to sleep. [10]
She asked Angers to give it to her without reading it. [11]
I have always to explain, 'In me you must not look for great attainments: what seems to you the result of reading and study is chiefly spontaneous and intuitive. [14]

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