PRESSING

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pressing I. adjectiv

care presează, presant etc. (v. press¹ I).

pressing II. substantiv

1. presiune; strângere; tescuire.

2. stăruinţă, insistenţă; revendicare (a unei datorii etc.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

My dearest Fanny, cried Edmund, pressing her arm closer to him, do not let the idea of her anger distress you.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

It followed down after him, pressing more closely against him.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

“Well, God be with thee, lad!” cried the archer, pressing Alleyne to his heart.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If there are any pressing fresh developments, I shall be always ready to run down and see you in your Norfolk home.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With Saturn and Pluto pressing hard on you— they are both opposed to the full moon lunar eclipse—you are likely to feel pressure to do well, but you will because Cancer (the sign of the eclipse) is a water sign like yours, and you will prove your worth many times over, despite your concerns that you will not.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

She looked neither at him nor at me, but stood in a humble attitude, holding her bonnet and shawl in one hand, without appearing conscious of them, and pressing the other, clenched, against her forehead.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Frank Churchill, of whom, in the eagerness of her conversation with Mrs. Weston, she had been seeing nothing, except that he had found a seat by Miss Fairfax, followed Mr. Cole, to add his very pressing entreaties; and as, in every respect, it suited Emma best to lead, she gave a very proper compliance.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Here was the Nelson who declared that he saw the hand of God pressing upon the French, and who waited on his knees in the cabin of his flag-ship while she bore down upon the enemy’s line.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The horses arrived, even before they were expected, and Colonel Brandon only pressing her hand with a look of solemnity, and a few words spoken too low to reach her ear, hurried into the carriage.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

He confessed himself obliged to leave the regiment, on account of some debts of honour, which were very pressing; and scrupled not to lay all the ill-consequences of Lydia's flight on her own folly alone.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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