Shews Sentence Examples

All this shews that he has a full heart of tender pity.

One is lucky when the insolence of a wretch like this only shews itself in the guise of jesting.

I keep her at a school of design all day; she shews a great taste for drawing.

For the word " number " here shews what place in language, in grammar, we assign to the word.

Thus have we examined the successive schisms and feuds that sacred history shews to have arisen from the mission of our Lord.

Oscil., a copy being presented to me, in my letter of thanks to him I gave those rules in the end thereof a particular commendation for their usefulness in Philosophy, and added out of my aforesaid paper an instance of their usefulness, in comparing the forces of the moon from the earth, and earth from the sun; in determining a problem about the moon's phase, and putting a limit to the sun's parallax, which shews that I had then my eye upon comparing the forces of the planets arising from their circular motion, and understood it; so that a while after, when Mr Hooke propounded the problem solemnly, in the end of his attempt to prove the motion of the earth, if I had not known the duplicate proportion before, I could not but have found it now.