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Definition of Assisting
1. assist [v] - See also: assist
Literary usage of Assisting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"... by assisting them in selecting the best mechanical means for improving their
vision. In the second chapter, Presbyopia or aged sight is treated of; ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"... swiftly embarks there her '15000, France cautiously assisting; and lauds ...
having been assisting Mamma, is obliged to become Neutral in the Italian ..."
3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... who had joined in assisting »lem ; having taken the lead, too, with tho
Corinthians and ... assisting ..."
4. Decorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette and Dress of the Best American by John A. Ruth, S. L. Louis (1882)
"Assisting A LADY INTO A CARRIAGE. A gentleman in assisting a lady into a carriage
will take care that the skirt of her dress is not al lowed to hang outside ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty (1819)
"... 71 for taking and framing unlawful oaths at common law, 71 for publishing a
seditious book, 72 for assisting at the administering of an unlawful oath, ..."
6. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"... with the brazen explanation that they hoped thereby to strengthen Turkey by
assisting her to 'concentrate and condense' her resources. ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"Many of these oxalates may be titrated quantitatively, thus assisting in the
identification of the amines. 3. A rapid test for the nitro group by reduction ..."
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