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Definition of Improvising
1. improvise [v] - See also: improvise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Improvising
Literary usage of Improvising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"Improvising A GOVERNMENT IN PARIS IN JULY, 1789 ALTHOUGH the dominant influence
which Paris exerted upon the course of the French Revolution never has been ..."
2. On English Poetry: Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of this Art by Robert Graves (1922)
"XXXV Improvising NEW CONVENTIONS THERE is a great dignity in poetry unaffectedly
written in stern stiff traditional forms and we feel in spite of ourselves ..."
3. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"... and warned that the populace were improvising a gallows to hang him, he sprang
to the tribune and uttered the memorable phrase of defiance : ' I have ..."
4. Wandering Sketches of People and Things in South America, Polynesia by William Maxwell Wood (1849)
"... musicians—La son—Improvising. BEFORE the revolution, the chief, indeed, the
only seats of civilization in California, were the Catholic missions. ..."
5. In Vinculis: Or, The Prisoner of War, Being the Experience of a Rebel in Two by Anthony M. Keiley (1866)
"Negro insolence.—Fires out across the dead line.— Improvising furniture.—Designs
on a "nail kag."—Negro regiment to the front.—A new prison at Elmira. ..."
6. Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of (1885)
"Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' Ancestry —Her Childhood —The Old Home at Andover — Her
Story-telling Faculty — Improvising Stories for Her Schoolmates—Her ..."
7. History of the 89th Division, U. S. A.: From Its Organization in 1917 by George H. English, War Society of the 89th Division (1920)
"Improvising TRAINING MATERIAL It was in the Artillery Brigade that the lack of
material for training was most keenly felt, and where the greatest ingenuity ..."
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