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Example sentences for "inspecting"

Lexicographically close words:
inspan; inspanned; inspanning; inspect; inspected; inspection; inspections; inspector; inspectorate; inspectors
  1. His first step was to resume his command in the volunteers, and, under pretext of inspecting their posts, to make a journey through the island; his second was to go through the form of seeking a reconciliation with Paoli.

  2. Buonaparte immediately sought, and by Salicetti's favor obtained, the important charge of equipping and inspecting the artillery destined for the enterprise.

  3. There were people in the sickly gardens, and others were inspecting the Tanks.

  4. Fifteen minutes passed by, while the slight figure of the inventor puttered about the interior of the sphere, brightly lit by a detachable searchlight, inspecting all mechanisms in preparation for their descent.

  5. His people would be proud and gratified if I would honour their poor dwelling while inspecting it.

  6. He was, or fancied that he was, on duty, inspecting missionary establishments in those mountains.

  7. They flew in silence, inspecting the road below.

  8. If I am not, it will be because I am inspecting a road section.

  9. The Colonel walked about the parlor, inspecting his regiment of lamps.

  10. It was waiting for the owner, who was at a little distance inspecting the progress of a half-built farm-house.

  11. Nell was meanwhile inspecting her rival from top to toe.

  12. Damme," he observed aloud, inspecting the ring closely, "I have taken a fancy to this gem.

  13. As we were busily employing ourselves in inspecting the channels, the officer commanding the garrison began to suspect that our object might not altogether be pacific, this suspicion being confirmed by the detention of his officer.

  14. On the day after his arrival there, and whilst he was inspecting the detachments in the Plaza, Lady Cochrane galloped on to the parade to speak to him.

  15. He was now a species of district paymaster, employed in a thousand ways, either inspecting recruits, examining accounts, revising sick certificates, or receiving contracts for mess beef.

  16. You may be sure that I was eager to make the acquaintance of so admirable a man: I esteemed myself, therefore, highly favoured by fortune in meeting him in the park inspecting the operations of his workmen.

  17. In the morning this regiment of Hussars and a regiment of Lancers are to be reviewed by an Inspecting General, which I shall stay to see.

  18. Keil, and of inspecting his colony, of which such favorable reports had reached us.

  19. After looking the horses over and inspecting the wagons with a new but mild curiosity, awakened by Jeffries's proposal, de Spain walked back toward the station.

  20. De Spain, following the newcomer, strolled into the room and, beginning at one side, proceeded in leisurely fashion from wheel to wheel and table to table inspecting the players.

  21. I was sitting at the dining-table in the English room, with my back to the door, when the inspecting party came suddenly in.

  22. The Inspecting Officer, who came round every two or three days, was General Oberarzt Schmidt.

  23. Presently an inspecting officer, a captain, I think, came along the train.

  24. It was not long before the doctor in charge of the Coblenz ambulance, tall and thin, with a black beard, came along inspecting the wounded.

  25. When the group, which consisted of the Inspecting Colonel, the Rittmeister, and Mr Poerringer, came opposite to where I was standing, they stopped and looked at me.

  26. Outside the door was the inspecting officer--large, not very tall, somewhat red in the face, no doubt a pleasant enough man after his second bottle of wine.

  27. When they had all finished, I told Mr Poerringer that I was physically incapable of showing such outward signs of respect as were due the inspecting officer, and that my failure to show him honour was not due to any desire to be discourteous.

  28. During the next month, if all is well, as I shall have a long journey inspecting the schools, I hope to have many opportunities of proclaiming the gospel to those that are now sitting in darkness.

  29. By Ernst Rietschel Frederick William I Inspecting a School.

  30. Later that night we lay off a possible landing-place for one of our bases, but, on more closely inspecting it in the morning, we decided to proceed farther west into a wide sweeping bay which opened ahead.

  31. On inspecting it, Wild reported that it was serviceable, but would first require to be strengthened.

  32. In fifty per cent of the cases of membranous croup it is possible to see a white, membranous deposit on the upper part of the throat by holding the tongue down with a spoon handle and inspecting the parts with a good light.

  33. Lydia would confide to Sally that she was just sick for fear that Dryden man--and Sally, sternly inspecting Jimmy's little back for signs of measles, would quote Joe.

  34. She washed her only gloves, pressed her suit, and spent every alternate minute during the next day anxiously inspecting her chin where an ugly pimple threatened to form.

  35. Why should I be inspecting Gauntmoor Castle--and what is a castle named Gauntmoor doing in Perkinsville, Ohio, anyway?

  36. Next morning being mild and bright for December, and Thaddeus Hobson and his mysterious daughter not having showed up for breakfast, I amused myself by inspecting the exterior of the castle.


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