How To Use Doings In A Sentence

I'm looking for a doings to hold up a curtain rail that's fallen down.
I never kept a diary when I was growing up but I did receive them as Christmas presents and loved the idea of documenting my daily and dull doings.
For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for this people. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
I'm looking for a doings to hold up a curtain rail that's fallen down.
Chiefly, such activities were processional - arrivals of ambassadors and potentates, with plebeian doings relegated to the wings.

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If wrongdoings are uncovered, then the wrongdoers must be punished.
The film chronicles the everyday doings of a group of London schoolchildren.
They need rules and discipline not tea and sympathy for their wrongdoings.
Such were the rimes of _Skelton_ (vsurping the name of a Poet Laureat) being in deede but a rude rayling rimer & all his doings ridiculous, he vsed both short distaunces and short measures pleasing onely the popular eare: in our courtly maker we banish them vtterly. The Arte of English Poesie
You did not excuse the wrongdoings of the executives involved in the recently uncovered corporate scandals.
Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power Springhaven
Lure or drag sb. into the mire or wrong doings.
Although the developments are not the outcome of our doings, our omissions have certainly contributed to the gravity of the situation.
Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
My fumbling attempt to answer Justice McHugh is to this effect, that of course there can be the extraterritorial legislation which makes part of the record, treats as the Tribunal's doings what is done in Greece.
And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
And yet he was warned by manie strange woonders (as the common people did discant) to refraine from these euill doings: for the Thames did rise with such high springs and tides, that manie townes were drowned, and much hurt doone in places about London, and elsewhere. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus
Forth, where boys and girls recalled the doings of Robert Louis and his friends with bull's-eye lanterns and gunpowder, in that cheerful form known to Louis Stevenson as a 'peeoy,' and considered it a point of honour to do likewise, no matter how indignant such mischief made the authorities. Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales and legends dealt with the doings of kings, contests between knights and dragons, and the exploits of ancient robbers and bandits as well as with the lives of saints.
These are the industry shills posing as journalists who ‘report,’ usually loudly and breathlessly, on the doings of and goings-on among a hundred or two not very interesting people.
Mistress Mabel, who did not often talk, found her tongue now, and used it too, denouncing in the strongest terms the doings of the Parliament. Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War
She had the undoubting, uninquiring reverence which a Christianly educated child of those times might entertain for the visible head of the Christian Church, all whose doings were to be regarded with an awful veneration which never even raised a question. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
Thought it was his own choice, his own misdoings.
She took refuge in every-day affairs; she told him of the giddy doings that kept her occupied from morning till night, of Cinders (the mention of whose name kindled a reminiscent gleam in the Frenchman's eyes), of the coming birthday dance, which he must promise to attend. The Rocks of Valpre
Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so often in the merry days of his pagehood. Men of Iron
He little dreamed till then, not he, that there had been banquetings and junketings, secret doings and deep drinkings at his expense. Doctor Thorne
Fan magazines will bring you up-to-date on the doings of your favorite stars.
Selectmen of New-Gloucester, of the time of running said lines, that they, said Selectmen may be present if they see fit, and to make returns to the General Assembly of the doings of the said surveyor and chainmen as soon as may be, and the charge and expence of doing the aforesaid service to be paid by the petitioners and their associates. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
If we, the press and the people, refuse to avert our gaze from the misdoings of the BCCI, it might be forced to mend its ways.
You could not take up a newspaper, English, Scotch, or Irish, without finding in it one or more references to the "vest-pocket million-pounder" and his latest doings and saying.
He obviously thought I was about to report his evil doings to the MRT panel.
All sectors of society need to combine efforts to prevent teenagers from smoking which not only destructs their health and mind but also compels some of them to commit serious wrongdoings.
Several times during the following two weeks he heard reports of the doings of the mission from different ones of the Indians who went thitherto reconnoitre. Old Mission Stories of California
Swithin’s doings and discoveries in the southern sidereal system were, no doubt, incidents of the highest importance to him; and yet from an intersocial point of view they served but the humble purpose of killing time, while other doings, more nearly allied to his heart than to his understanding, developed themselves at home. Two on a Tower
Many a sheep had been there ingulfed, and never saluted by her lambs again; and although a lawyer by no means is a sheep (except in his clothing, and his eyes perhaps), yet his doings appear upon the skin thereof, and enhance its value more than drugs of Tyre. Mary Anerley
In 1982 he appeared in Who Dares Wins as a police commander, and continued many television and film appearances, and between 1985 and 1989 he was The Equalizer for eight seven episodes, a man who has retired from his job working for a secret government agency called The Company, and now works as a man for hire, trying to attone for his previous wrong doings. Filmstalker: Closing Credits: Edward Woodward
I'm from a Roman Catholic background, so in case of misdemeanors we could always confess our wrongdoings and go on with life.
Surely honesty, sobriety, and steadiness must have grown dreadfully scarce qualities, that one puts up with such a cook; especially as her cooking is as careless as the rest of her doings. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
I must be permitted to register clearly the general conviction that if black magic, sorcery, and the Sabbath up to date had been merely revived demonomania, had been merely concerned with the black paternoster, the black mass, or even with transcendental sensualism and the ordeal of the pastos, the Roman hierarchy would not have taken action as it has, nor would the witnesses concerning these things have been welcomed with open arms; as a fact, no interest whatsoever is manifested in the doings of diabolists who operate apart from Masonry. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
He may have been weak in body, but his mind was strong, his position impressive, his own faults or misdoings unpunishable by law.
In the middle of all these bureaucratic doings, the hapless bus commuters suddenly find themselves shelterless from the elements during their wait for the erratic city buses.
Searcy, 21, is a "lifestreamer" or a "lifecaster": someone who broadcasts her daily doings over the Internet. Undefined
Cid had heard about the doings of his other friends by way of his parents back in Seattle.
Poland; as a principle, we hated Napoleon, though he had neither act nor part in the doings of the democrats; and the sea-songs of Dibdin, which our youth _now_ would call uncouth and ungraceful rhymes, were key-notes to public feeling; the English of that time were thoroughly International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850
I've been hearing a lot about your doings.
Sentencing juveniles to life without parole is a bad idea, so it must be that the Constitution prohibits states from doingso. The Volokh Conspiracy » La Société, C’est Moi
Now that I'm unemployed - thanks to the misdoings of a certain Internet media company that may or may not host this site - I've been pretty bored.
Another week, they watch a bird for 5 minutes or so and describe its doings.
The cowardly writer of this perfidy had assumed the mantle of anonymity to cloak his misdoings!
Voters can't be bothered to look closely enough to find misdoings, while politicians trumpet their every success.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts. Voltaire
However, that's just a hunch based on the fact that the reported sayings of ETs seem so often to be, well, new age twaddle while their doings seem, so often, to be creepy, meaningless, and malevolent.
If we do not speak out and act to stop the brutish behaviour of our Government, then we become accomplices to its wrongdoings.
They might be poor - and society tends to use the poor as scapegoats for the wrong doings of the big hands - but not all bad.
Well, it's wonderful the way in which the doings of American royalty are getting mixed on the show with those of British royalty.
My mother has been fishing sair for an invite to Peebles Pairk; but I'm for putting it off a little, for I'd wish her to know her place at once, and then there'll be no fashious doings afterwards, when we'll be having grand company at the pairk. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
I'll write an account of my day and my doings on the train to Angouleme, tomorrow.
'Such doings, young man,' said I. 'I've read,' said I, 'that some German -- I've forgotten his name -- has created from the human brain a new kind of alkaloid, idiotine.' The Wife, and other stories
It was now a quarter of an hour mayhap, since I had made any chopping noise, because I had been assorting my spars, and tying them in bundles, instead of plying the bill-hook; and the gentle tinkle of the stream was louder than my doings. Lorna Doone
Seated on a green-and-white striped chair he watched a _revue_, of which from start to finish he understood but one word -- 'out', to wit -- absorbed in the doings of a red-moustached gentleman in blue who wrangled in rapid French with a black-moustached gentleman in yellow, while a snow-white _commere_ and a _compere_ in a mauve flannel suit looked on at the brawl. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
There had been grand doings to open the new house, and Ellabelle felt she was on the way to ruling things social with an iron hand if she was just careful and didn't overbet her cards. Somewhere in Red Gap
Now Ulrich had long suspected the knave of bad doings, for many pearls and jewels had lately been missing from her Grace's shabrack and horse-trappings, and the groom, who always laid them on her Grace's white palfrey, knew nothing about them, though he was even put to the torture; but as Appelmann had all these things in his sole keeping, it was natural to think that he was not quite innocent. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1
Here are some of my doings," he said, "which are proof enough that the spagyric art is not the dream of an empty brain. The Queen Pedauque
He grieved bitterly over his own ill-doings, and knew well what changes gentlehood would have demanded from him. Framley Parsonage
What would satisfy ˜Jones believes the earth is round™ is an open-ended (infinite) list of inferrings, imaginings, saying, and doings (etc.) on the part of Jones (1949a, 44). Gilbert Ryle
Once my brain has absorbed the week, and can regurgitate it coherently, I'll record my doings here as usual.
Concerned good citizens who think they may have discovered some nefarious doings should email the anti piracy team here.
Occasionally, wrongdoings are revealed: last March, it disallowed ‘a large quantity’ of Guardian-Observer bulk sales.
Mr. Walsh sent Mr. Darwin an extract from Dr. Hartman's "Journal of the doings of a Cicada septendecim," in which the females are described as flocking round the drumming males. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
The causes of their deaths were usually said to lie in people's wrong doings in both the recent and the remote past, and their invasion of forbidden domains.
His widow later said that in his last desperate days the only thing that cheered him were news reports of the doings of his two protégés.
However, if the subject is part of nature there would seem to be no way of explaining how a nature which we can only know as deterministic can give rise to a subject which seems to transcend determinism in its knowing and in its ethical doings. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
I knew there were big deeds and wild doings behind that sigh, so I haled him into a corner, between a roulette outfit and a poker layout, and waited for his tongue to thaw. A HYPERBOREAN BREW
Councell for to haue aduise in these doings, and other. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
While the sentiments seem heartfelt, there are probably much closer-to-home ways women can warn other women of a guy's misdoings, or vice versa.
And when the time came to regret for my misdoings, he was gone.
The remembrance of our misdoings is grievous to us; the burden of them is intolerable.
Alaska's Pete Rouse (@ least he claims to be "Alaska") finally comes out of the shadows; Obama looks to appt him COS; strange doings in the WH [sic] Geoffrey Dunn: Pete Rouse and the Lies of Sarah Palin
I was mesmerized by the tale of the town without a name, his family, and the doings of the neighbors.
The humorist kept the balance of satire by laughing at his own follies and doings.
In a way all of us are ill-prepared for suddenly some enormous spotlight coming on to us and onto our private lives, and onto our doings, and so on.
As if such intrusions can be dismissed as the doings of a cranky, ill-mannered boys, who don't really mean any permanent harm to the women they target.
I guess all those post-resurrection sayings and doings as alluded to in the lattermost Gospels were "lost," just like the last chapter of Mark. Jesus Probably Rose From The Dead: On Historical Study and Christian Apologetics
And some of those threats will emerge because of our own doings.
Well might they call their doings "art," for they substituted art instead of nature. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni
The problems in the education system cannot be explained simply as the doings of a handful of poor administrators.
But Byung-sik secretly reports all of the household's doings to the wife's vicious mother (Park Ji-young), who understands that her daughter's (and her) social standing depends on remaining in Hoon's good graces. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Housemaid
Which, judging by the copious accounts of her doings, she was, but Gladys was also a vain perfectionist, obsessed with the “kink” in her nose that kept her from possessing a perfect Grecian profile – an obsession that led to the ruination of her beauty before she was yet forty. An Aristocratic Ménage: Consuelo, Sunny and Gladys | Edwardian Promenade
Roberta is fun too - she & Homer are having a wild affair, and I’ve actually managed to get her a pretty nice pad without using the cheat at all. this is how into it I am - I made a chart with all the doings of my main neighborhood. oh, except I just realized that I forgot Joan! Once again, I’ve wasted an - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson
Many of the Tongans heard the word gladly, though hitherto known for their evil doings, and returned home changed in heart and manners. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific
And I will, because the life of everything you valuethis dog, that manhe didnt say who, but I saw he had learned about my doings here in Las Vegas, inside outwill depend upon you becoming a prime attraction at my hotel. Dancing with Werewolves
So he walked 60 kilometres to the nearest town and reported his father's doings to the secret police.
I'm from a Roman Catholic background, so in case of misdemeanors we could always confess our wrongdoings and go on with life.
Its secluded leisure had something mysterious about it; one played about, or did as one liked and had not to render an account of one's doings.
curious about the neighbor's doings
It's almost beyond belief apart from the fact that I have secretly suspected the Welsh of evil doings ever since they spawned the cater-wauling Charlotte Church. Censoring the censors
The humorist kept the balance of satire by laughing at his own follies and doings.
Instead there is advice on how bloggers should interact with their readers and a caution about how celebrities mishandle their public wrongdoings. Dale Carnegie's self-help bible gets a new life for the digital age
I have no more influence with him, and can no more affect his doings, or what you call his fate — and, to say the truth, care about them no more than the child unborn. Wylder's Hand
_ When the progress of thought, especially in Greece, made it impossible to accept the current beliefs concerning gods and their doings, it was felt necessary to put some higher meaning into them -- they were rationalized and spiritualized by a process of allegorization. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
The epithet 'unbred' was accredited upon the quoted sayings and doings of the pretentious young person's aunt, repeated abroad by noblemen and gentlemen present when she committed herself; and the same were absurd. Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3
It is, I imagine, a sense capable of cultivation, and enables us to look upon many of man's doings that would otherwise vex and pain us, and, as some say, destroy all the pleasure of our lives, not exactly as an illusion, as if we were Japanese and had seen a fox in the morning, but at all events in what we call a philosophic spirit. Afoot in England
VViaC nowc rcmaineth to the paffion of Chrift, but to be anexampkof redempti6, whereby wc may learne to be our owne redcmersPChrift himfelfc, when in the Supper he fealeth the confidence of pardon, doth not bid bis difciplcs to fticke in that doings, but fendeth them away to*he facrifice of his death: lignifying that the Supper is a mo - nimcnt or memoriall (as the common fpech is) whereby they may Icarnc that the fatisfadoric denfing facrifice, by which the Father was to be appeafed, muft haue bene offred but ones. The institution of christian religion
While the main theme is the need for compassion and love, the action includes the often laughable doings of a British royal family. Fair Feathered Friends
However, I agree with the point, you can have a resolution without sanctions, but what we have to look at is how impactive is that resolution going to be if there are not sanctions in place for wrongdoings?
Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque 'chivalry' doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth-century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives; and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbuggeries survive along with it. Life on the Mississippi
Should one concentrate on political history, full of documentable events as it is, or should one deal with social history and the daily doings of people who do not seem to ‘make history’ or shape events?
Elsewhere I have already described the doings of the midinettes on the Place Vendôme, but these doings were so delightful that I beg leave to repeat myself.
As to me, I cannot say whether I spoke or not, but I know that my mind and my memory were clearer than I can ever remember them, and I was thinking all the time about the old folk at home, and about Cousin Edie with her saucy, dancing eyes, and de Lissac with his cat's whiskers, and all the doings at West Inch, which had ended by bringing us here on the plains of Belgium as a cockshot for two hundred and fifty cannons. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
Fan magazines will bring you up-to-date on the doings of your favorite stars.
We do lots of wrong things every day, but to suppose that all such wrongdoings should be illegal is surely to grant too much to the law.
They had the job of dealing punishments, such as decimation, where one soldier out of ten was selected for the wrongdoings of another, and the other nine soldiers would stone the luckless soldier to death.
Nineteenth-century scholars and 11th-century landowners may not have had much in common, but they did share a profound suspicion of the state and its financial doings.
David or Zerubbabel (compare Hag 2: 2; Zec 4: 7-10) be primarily meant, there is here typically represented God's more wonderful doings in exalting Christ, crucified as an impostor, to be the Prince and Saviour and Head of His Church. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Governments should not grant marriage licenses, or otherwise keep record of their citizens' private doings.
Among all our reckless doings the most daring is this insolent advertising to the powers of the world that we have unparalleled national resources and no army to protect them. The Fatuous Insolence of the Canadians
I look forward to seeing him telling these outside contractors to stop serving warmed-over mechanically recovered chicken's doings and start serving decent food.
Should Olivia share her information about possible medical misdoings at the hospital?
There are all manner of murders, plots, illicit affairs and dirty doings associated with the building, any of which could be directly linked with its supposed hauntings.
He has created a semi-official parallel administration within the White House and has fought like a tiger to keep his doings private.
McCain may have "atoned" for his wrongdoings, but he came away from "Keating Five" with his ideological passion for deregulation fully intact. Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
The people have followed the doings of some of their principal servants in front of the Hutton inquiry.
Caesar had called Catiline to account for his doings at the time of the proscription, and knew his nature too well to expect benefit to the people from a revolution conducted under the auspices of bankrupt patrician adventurers. Caesar: a Sketch
A methodical man, he kept a journal in which he made brief entries of all his doings.
Its secluded leisure had something mysterious about it; one played about, or did as one liked and had not to render an account of one's doings.
But to quit your political party because of a colleague's private doings is a bit of a stretch, and I daresay it's insulting to the electorate too. Stripping Lib Dems
The doings of the British royal family have always been of interest to the media.
From their cheap little cottage, where they did their own work, they stepped out in their shabby garments and old-fashioned hats with heads even more proudly erect than in the old days when their home and their gowns and their doings were the admiration and envy of the town. Miss Billy's Decision
Swithin's doings and discoveries in the southern sidereal system were, no doubt, incidents of the highest importance to him; and yet from an intersocial point of view they served but the humble purpose of killing time, while other doings, more nearly allied to his heart than to his understanding, developed themselves at home. Two on a Tower
The Church is a dark and sinister place with creepy occult doings going on.
Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
Prince, Kinge Richard the Third; who albeit I shold guilde with farre better termes of eloquence then I have don, and freate myself to deathe in pursuite of his commendations, yet his disgrace beinge so publicke, and the worlde so opinionate of his misdoings, as I shold not be able so farre to justifie him as they to condemne him. Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850
However, in real life, hauntings, hexings and supernatural doings were as strange to the post-bellum South as pit barbecue, Winn-Dixie, Dr. Pepper and Royal Crown Cola were familiar. The Death of James A. Garfield « A Fly in Amber
His assistant, who carries the lamps, plates and what his superior describes as the rest of the doings, is smaller, meeker, of worse complexion and dressed in a blue serge suit. Try Anything Twice
Jeering at the White Logic, I go out to join my guests at table, and with assumed seriousness to discuss the current magazines and the silly doings of the world's day, whipping every trick and ruse of controversy through all the paces of paradox and persiflage. Chapter 37
The one can no more block up the wind-pipes of living dogs and watch their dying convulsions, and the other can no longer lead the minds of youths and maidens to seek and find beauty in the visible world about them and recognise in it the hand of God -- but the world has known which of these men led the youth of Oxford to look up and which to look down, and to-day a merciful oblivion covers the names and doings of this triumphant vivisector and his valiant supporters, while to the farthest inch of the English-speaking realms the writings of Ruskin are treasured in a million homes and his name acclaimed with grateful reverence. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow.
The ideal perception of music, as being the true heart-expression of great men; and the ideal of our doings, which is the true heart-expression of ourselves. Music Talks with Children
The survivor was named "Hoyle" (a cognomen for our old friend Hurley) and his doings gave us a new fund of entertainment. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
I've been hearing a lot about your doings.
curious about the neighbor's doings
Cambridge, when he sent _Yellowplush_ out upon the world as a satirist on the doings of gentlemen generally; when he wrote his _Catherine_, to show the vileness of the taste for what he would have called Newgate literature; and _The Hoggarty Diamond_, to attack bubble companies; and Thackeray
I thank God witches are out of fashion," observes Lady Mary, in a letter to her daughter, when spicy gossip about her doings abroad had been circulated in London, "or I should expect to have it deponed, by several credible witnesses, that I had been seen flying through the air on a broomstick. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
I wasn't going to have to start wearing a brown habit with rusty chains underneath as penance for my wrong doings.
Under the head "Socinians" -- a name repudiated by themselves -- an opponent was allowed not merely to state their alleged doctrines in his own way, but to apply strong terms, such as "audacious unfairness," to some of their doings. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
I have to admit that I had thought the Bush Administration has been much too soft on corporate misdoings and the harm it has caused America.
Yet the commission seems bound to uncover some salacious wrongdoings that will shape future reforms.
We shall keep you well informed of their doings.
Set back as I tell about the heroic doings of this lovable critter as spelled out by the elder folk of our town.
He may have been weak in body, but his mind was strong, his position impressive, his own faults or misdoings unpunishable by law.
It is very true of the societies I am about to describe, that he was "among them, not of them;" and it is also most true that this fact was apparent in all the demeanor of his bibliopolical and typographical allies towards him whenever he visited them under their roofs -- not a bit less so than when they were received at his own board; but still, considering how closely his most important worldly affairs were connected with the personal character of the Ballantynes, I think it a part, though neither a proud nor a very pleasing part, of my duty as his biographer, to record my reminiscences of them and their doings in some detail. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
The North's Central News Agency says the government "decided to leniently forgive and release" Robert Park, taking what it calls his admission and sincere repentance of his wrong doings into consideration. KWTX - HomePage - Headlines
I never kept a diary when I was growing up but I did receive them as Christmas presents and loved the idea of documenting my daily and dull doings.
The action scarcely draws breath in 300-odd pages of rowdy doings and closet skulduggery.
Without that daily report on the world's doings, which is the modern newspaper, we should for the most part be blind and deaf, and if not dumb, at any rate hardly able to speak above a whisper. The Adventure of Living
Laurie had a warmth of personality in all his doings with people and politics.
The doctrines which in that day had been gaining ground in New England, with regard to the utter inutility and unacceptableness of any prayers or religious doings of the unregenerate, had borne their legitimate fruits in causing parents to become less and less particular in cultivating early habits of devotion in children; and so, when I had a room to myself, my mother had ceased to take any oversight of my religious exercises; and as I had overheard my Aunt Lois maintaining very stringently that there was no use in it so long as my heart was not changed, I very soon dropped the form. Oldtown Folks
For Ziska, stout and furious, blind of one eye and at last of both, a kind of human rhinoceros driven mad, had risen out of the ashes of murdered Huss, and other bad papistic doings, in the interim; and was tearing up the world at a huge rate. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
The thrall hearkened, and cried out aloft, and fled away anywhither where he might hope for shelter, crying out that a hard portion was his because of their strife and wild doings, and an ill day for him whereon he must be dragged to death from his sweet life and his swine-keeping. The Story of the Volsungs
Our committing of ourselves to God is to be, not in indolent and passive quietism, but accompanied with active well-doings. faithful -- to His covenant promises. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He never specifically admits wrongdoings, but if anyone was offended, he apologizes.
Fie upon thee, thou cur! all this is of thy doings; thou hast wounded my heart s darling and thereby worked me sore woe and thou hast wasted his youth so that these three years he hath lain abed more dead than alive! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I've been hearing a lot about your doings recently.
In many cases, the killed journalists were well-known whistle-blowers whose public exposis of graft, corruption and other wrong doings embarrassed powerful people.
I can't believe I got so caught up in my own doings I forgot the Fourth!
Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who, in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for purgatory.
They also used this employment instrument to abrogate any responsibility for wrongdoings against employees.
While the doings of ‘private contractors’ still pop up in articles about prisoner abuse, what such mercenary outfits are up to on the home front is hardly ever mentioned.
The present is not worth so much as a shoe – sole; all faithless and marrowless the doings of men; their soul has no wings and their deeds no weight; Peer Gynt
For days their doings were the topic of conversation. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
Concerned good citizens who think they may have discovered some nefarious doings should email the anti piracy team here.
I highly doubt that being accused of business wrongdoings and paying 100 million in fines is the same thing as risking national security by outing an undercover CIA agent for political revenge and getting off completely free. Think Progress » Right Wing Urges Bush to Pardon Scooter Libby
His evil doings will rebound on himself.
When you come to see that the Iliad is as great a gift to the race as the doings of Achilles, that the Iliads are more significant than the doings they celebrate, you will cease to classify men into doers and singers. The Kempton-Wace Letters
It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.
At first he called the doings of the place dishonest; then he called them sharp practice; then he called them a little shady; then, close sailing; then he said this or that transaction was deuced clever; then, the man was more rogue than fool; then he laughed at the success of a vile trick; then he touched the pitch, and thinking all the time it was but with one finger, was presently besmeared all over -- as was natural, for he who will touch is already smeared. The Elect Lady

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