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Example sentences for "referring"

Lexicographically close words:
referral; referre; referred; referreth; referrible; refers; refert; refill; refilled; refilling
  1. Since it will be necessary to investigate this business opportunity immediately, we are referring the matter to a committee and we feel the analysis of the situation will be complete.

  2. I'm referring to my voice," said Ribsy, haughtily.

  3. For example, referring to a provision adopted by Massachusetts to restrict naturalization, he wrote, "Massachusetts is a sovereign and independent State, and it is no privilege of mine to scold her for what she does.

  4. He sought to justify his views by a one-sided interpretation of scripture passages referring to the human nature of Christ.

  5. Apostle, referring to this one particular church greeted not one but several bishops.

  6. In the West, however, the bishops claimed the laying on of hands as their exclusive right, referring in support of their claim to Acts viii.

  7. On his writings referring to these matters see § 92, 2.

  8. The law was regarded as binding, especially the precepts concerning the Sabbath and circumcision, but the sacrificial worship was abandoned, and the portions of the Old Testament referring to it as well as other parts.

  9. He even denied salvation to Christian children dying in infancy because they had not yet fought against sensuality, referring to 2 Tim.

  10. Romish fabrications and interpolations, by means of which the numerous fabricated acts of Romish martyrs, as well as already existing fables referring to particular popes and emperors (comp.

  11. Montanism could also justify the reappearance of prophetic gifts among its founders by referring to the historical tradition which from the Apostolic Age (Acts xi.

  12. This sketch can not be better concluded than by referring briefly to some of the remarks made on that occasion, as a fitting testimonial to the character and worth of Dr.

  13. Other gladiators, no doubt, shared the dwelling with him; and the amatory graffiti may have been written by one and another miles gloriosus, referring to conquests outside the arena, or by companions in bitter scorn.

  14. An interesting inscription referring to the municipal ownership of land was found at the further corner of the Bay Road: Ex auctoritate imp.

  15. The front of the oven (at c) was connected with the rooms on either side, as may be more clearly seen by referring to Fig.

  16. Inscriptions referring to the cult of Mercury and Maia, afterward of Augustus, at Pompeii: C.

  17. Conclusive evidence against the existence of a new city is the absence of any inscriptions referring to it.

  18. It is highly probable that statues of the two oldest sons of Germanicus, Nero and Drusus, were placed in them; a fragment of an inscription referring to the former was found near by.

  19. Referring to New York, Boston, or places on same isotherm.

  20. Emerson somewhere in his English Traits says, referring to the English aristocracy:--"It is surprising how much brain can go into fine manners.

  21. Subsequently he found a manuscript note in a book on the shelves of a public library referring to this very copy, which, the writer of the note stated, had been given him by the poet Pope.

  22. Referring to the treaty of Zaragoza (Vol.

  23. Referring to the Cerro Gordo ("rich hill") of Potosi; see Vol.

  24. Evidently referring to the capture of van Caerden's fleet by Heredia (see note 26, post).

  25. We transfer this note from law ix, of this título of the Recopilación, an editorial note to law lxviii referring to law ix.

  26. To narrate all its fortunes would be long, so I shall content myself by referring to some of them.

  27. It is the term that every swain, washed and unwashed, uses in referring to his lusts.

  28. He told her that “the good Eberhard”—it was his way of referring to Baron von Auffenberg—had gone to Munich for a few months, and was taking up with spiritists and theosophists.

  29. Could she muzzle these wicked, slanderous tongues by referring to the peculiarities of Daniel’s nature?

  30. The Bible negatively recognizes this source of idolatry, in so constantly referring all natural phenomena to the divine decree.

  31. They explained the inroad of frogs on natural principles, probably referring to the immense abundance ordinarily of the ova and tadpoles of these creatures compared with that of the adults.

  32. Footnote 92: Perhaps rather the high places of the waters, referring to the atmospheric waters.

  33. Deluge 3200 He rejects, of course, the fabulous chronologies of Egypt, China, and India as mythical, or referring to prehuman and antediluvian periods.

  34. If we can answer these questions--or such of them as we have the means of answering--in the affirmative, we have no hesitation in referring all to the same species.

  35. Modern induction explains by referring a consequent to its invariable antecedent.

  36. Referring to the Northern Territory, in an article contributed by him to The Empire Review for May, 1910, Mr. F.

  37. The falsity of this was demonstrated then, and now in the year of grace, 1918, we find the truthful Editor of the Bengalee newspaper referring to that lie and putting forward that lie as an argument against the popular party.

  38. I am referring to the speeches made by Sir Hugh Bray and Mr. Hogg.

  39. Thus the dangerous, doctrinaire tendency, which beset him in his last years, of making art more of a science than is really practicable, and of referring everything to some law, lay even in his boyish tastes.

  40. Footnote 1: Referring to this letter afterwards, my father felt certain that he had never used the word "equivocal.

  41. I have always delighted in referring all the actions of my life to God, and yet people have charged me with Atheism!

  42. I am referring more especially to her brothers MM.

  43. The Reports may be divided into two classes: those referring to commercial or industrial matters, and those referring to the public morals.

  44. He shewed me the pile of papers, on which he had worked out all the problems referring to the lottery.

  45. He greeted me in a friendly manner and begged me to tell him the story of the girl I had gone to see, on the promise of the Latin quatrain referring to her accommodating disposition.

  46. Referring further, it is conjectured, to Casanova's hopes of placing himself with the Count.

  47. I occasionally addressed an observation to her referring to the play or actors, and I was immensely delighted with her spirited answers.

  48. Certainly, but that money has no connection with my mission, as I can prove to you by referring you to M.

  49. I am not referring to that curiosity which depends on the occult sciences, and endeavours to pry into the future--the daughter of ignorance and superstition, its victims are either foolish or ignorant.


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    Other words:
    appertaining; comparable; comparative; congenial; correlative; pertaining; pertinent; proportional; proportionate; referable; relative; sympathetic