Use representing in a sentence
Sentences starting with representing
- Representing states and talking of national and even international affairs, as familiarly as neighbors at home talk of poor crops and the extravagance of their ministers, was likely at first to impose upon Philip as to the importance of the people gathered here. [5]
Sentences ending with representing
- I considered it my lawful privilege to paint much that was pure invention, but nothing that was not possible at the period I was representing. [10]
- They imitate his metrical forms as a mimic copies the gait of the person he is representing. [6]
Sentences containing representing two or more times
- Luigi's whole heart was in it, and even Angelo developed a surprising amount of interest-which was natural, because he was not merely representing Whigism, a matter of no consequence to him; but he was representing something immensely finer and greater--to wit, Reform. [5]
More example sentences with the word representing in them
- But look here-- what do you suppose became of the man you've been representing all this time? [5]
- Tickets and fares were high, but I traveled for nothing by pretending to be the conscience of an editor, and got in for half-price by representing myself to be the conscience of a clergyman. [5]
- He said we was representing prisoners; and prisoners don't care how they get a thing so they get it, and nobody don't blame them for it, either. [5]
- Mrs. Midas Goldenrod was not a bad woman, but she loved and hated in too exclusive and fastidious a way to allow us to consider her as representing the highest ideal of womanhood. [6]
- His faithful friend's warnings and entreaties did not leave Orion unmoved; but he clung to his determination, representing to Nilus that he had pledged his word to Rufinus, and could not now draw back, though he had already lost all his pleasure in the enterprise. [10]
- The zodiac promises us a good star, and the figures representing it are not the common emblems, but each deeply significant. [10]
- Was not fatalism, then, the cheapest sort of belief in an unchangeable Somebody or Something, representing purpose and law and will? [11]
- Pound had set the seal of his approval, with a glazed picture cover, representing Daniel in the lions' den and an angel standing beside him. [9]
- The first is the noble cast of the column of Trajan, vast in dimensions, crowded with history in its most striking and enduring form; a long array of figures representing in unquestioned realism the military aspect of a Roman army. [6]
- The company felt that they were occupying an unusually responsible position--they were representing the people of America, not the Government--and therefore they were careful to do their best to perform their high mission with credit. [5]
- There is the skeleton figure representing Fox (who should have been called Goose), the poor creature who starved himself to death in trying to imitate the fast of forty days in the wilderness. [6]
- But here also she made little progress, for the abbess led Eva up the stairs, and the two old family servants, Martsche representing the guiding mind and Endres the rude strength, made common cause. [10]
- He gave me several mementoes of my visit, among them a beautiful engraving of Sir Isaac Newton, representing him as one of the handsomest of men. [6]
- Each has a rough carving upon it, representing a man and a woman standing or walking hand in hand, and marks the spot where a widow went to her death by fire in the days when the suttee flourished. [5]
- These two men, representing the primitive nomad life, had been drawn together in friendship. [11]
- In one portrait-group representing (as each of these pictures did) an entire Corps, I took pains to count the ribbons: there were twenty-seven members, and twenty-one of them wore that significant badge. [5]
- Said he had port in bottles that were swathed in stratified cobwebs, every stratum representing a generation. [5]
- After these, in order of rank, came a body royally attired representing the lay peers of France; it consisted of three princes of the blood, and La Tremouille and the young De Laval brothers. [5]
- Also a fine oil-painting representing Stonewall Jackson's last interview with General Lee. [5]
- The latter, by official necessity, went in the meek and lowly swallow-tail--a deliciously sarcastic contrast: the one dress representing the honest and honourable dignity of the nation; the other, the cheap hypocrisy of the Republican Simplicity tradition. [5]
- Like the rest of the world, he thought that the reliefs of Myrtilus, representing scenes of rural life, were wonderful. [10]
- The peplos was of the same color and decorated to match; costly clasps of mosaic, representing full-blown roses and set in oval gold settings, fastened it on the shoulders. [10]
- He put one of the former in his pocket-book, and the remainder, representing $38,500, he put in an envelope, and with these he added a note which he wrote after Harkness was gone. [5]
- Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to fly upwards. [2]
- Under the name of "Remonstrants" and "Contra-Remonstrants,"--Arminians and old-fashioned Calvinists, as we should say,--the adherents of the two Leyden professors disputed the right to the possession of the churches, and the claim to be considered as representing the national religion. [6]
- But I am not representing him quite correctly. [5]
- What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? [5]
- Miriam greeted the new arrivals with the utmost warmth, and the men who, representing three generations, stood before her, presented a picture on which the eyes of any well-disposed person could not fail to rest with pleasure. [10]
- Dyck had seen many people, representing the gaiety and deviltry of life; but it was as though many doubtful people, many reckless ones, all those with purposes, fads, and fancies, were there. [11]
- Fedddn----A measure of land representing about an acre. [11]
- So I let it go at that, though I couldn't see no advantage in my representing a prisoner if I got to set down and chaw over a lot of gold-leaf distinctions like that every time I see a chance to hog a watermelon. [5]
- The first one is that of Washington and his hatchet, representing the foundation of true speaking, which is the characteristic of our people. [5]
- The corporators named in the second colony were Thomas Hankam, Raleigh Gilbert, William Parker, and George Popham, representing Bristol, Exeter, and Plymouth, and the west counties, who were authorized to make a settlement anywhere between the 38th and 48th degrees of latitude. [4]
- The most exquisite in color and finish is the series painted on the casket made to contain the arm of St. Ursula, and representing the story of her martyrdom. [4]
- This was an historical pageant, representing the King's immediate progenitors. [5]
- Besides--as it happens--the hawk which old Hekt keeps as representing me is to-day pining and sick--" "It will be all the prouder and brighter to-morrow if you are a man! [10]
- Three successive years have borne witness to the feeling with which this Institution, representing it in its educational aspect, is regarded by those who are themselves most honored and esteemed. [3]
- His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a death's head. [2]
- Having sat still for a while he touched--himself not knowing why--the thick spot of paint representing the highest light in the portrait, rose, and recalled de Beausset and the officer on duty. [2]
- The walls were faced with bas-reliefs representing scenes in his life done in massive silver. [5]
- It has fine Doric columns on the outside, and Ionic within, and the pediment groups are bas-reliefs, by Schwanthaler, representing scenes in modern Greek history. [4]
- That little narrow, desolate, unpeopled, oblong streak of grass and gravel, lost in the remote wastes of the vast continent--why, it's like representing a billiard table--a discarded one. [5]
- Then if any correspondence ensues between you and them, let Mollie write for you and sign your name--your own hand writing representing Miller's. [5]
- Unluckily, Egyptian records contain nothing which could have much weight in estimating the character of Cleopatra, though we have likenesses representing the Queen alone, or with her son Caesarion. [10]
- An address of congratulation and appreciation and a splendid gift of silver had been brought to the Manor from the capital by certain high officials of the Government and the Army, representing the people of the Province. [11]
- Here, too, side by side in the same great camp, are half a dozen chaplains, representing half a dozen modes of religious belief. [6]
- Els bathed her brow with a wet handkerchief, consoling her by representing how foolish it would be to suffer the lowest of the populace to destroy her happiness. [10]
- Your salary will be high--of course-for you are representing me. [5]
- I wished that at least one-fifth of it had not been published; but my apology was never heard till now as I withdraw from this edition of A Lover's Diary some twenty-five sonnets representing fully one-fifth of the original edition. [11]
- I drilled him as representing in turn all sorts of people out of luck and suffering dire privations and misfortunes. [5]
- Barneveld, representing the Arminian or Remonstrant provinces, levied a body of mercenary soldiers in several of the cities. [6]
- Megabyzus at once applied to the king, representing that such hostile acts, if not repressed by fear, might soon be followed by open rebellion. [10]
- But Argutis, faithful and prudent, had hindered him, representing that Alexander, who was easily moved, as soon as he heard that his father was a prisoner would unhesitatingly give himself up to his enemies as a hostage, and rush headlong into danger. [10]
- After various disturbances and acts of violence by both parties, Maurice, representing the States-General, pronounced for the Calvinists or Contra-Remonstrants, and took possession of one of the great churches, as an assertion of his authority. [6]
- The dog was an impressive figure to me, representing as he did a mystery whose key is lost. [5]
- It was an allegory, representing Mr. Davis in the act of signing a secession act or some such document. [5]
- They described the activity of individuals who ruled the people, and regarded the activity of those men as representing the activity of the whole nation. [2]
- Beside these were a number of amulets in different forms, one representing the goddess of truth, another containing spells written on a strip of papyrus and concealed in a little golden case. [10]
- We set up a lot of random letters in a stick--three-fourths of a line; then filled out the line with quads representing 14 spaces, each space to be 35/1000 of an inch thick. [5]
- I measured off 817 feet of the roadway, a foot representing a year, and at the beginning and end of each reign I drove a three-foot white-pine stake in the turf by the roadside and wrote the name and dates on it. [5]
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