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vb. (present participle of chare English)
Wikipedia
Charing is a mostly agricultural large village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, in south-east England.; it includes the settlement of Charing Heath. It is at the foot of the North Downs and reaches up to the escarpment.
The Pilgrims' Way the M20 motorway and Charing railway station (between London Victoria and Ashford International via Maidstone) serve the parish.
Charing is a village in Kent, England
Charing can also refer to:
- Charing, Tibet, a village in Tibet
- Charing (painting), also known as Una Mestiza
- Charing, London, former village now known as Charing Cross
Usage examples of "charing".
Miss Charing,however, pushed her gently but inexorably over thethreshold, saying: "I told you how it would be!
He cast animploring glance at Miss Charing, who at once rose, andwent to seat herself in a chair beside him, patting his hand ina soothing way, and saying: "Nonsense!
He encountered a startledlook of enquiry from Miss Charing, and added succinctly:"Gamester.
He dwelt for a moment on thepercipience of Lord Legerwood, while Miss Charing eyedhim with hostility.
Miss Charing had stretched out an impulsivehand, and was clutching the sleeve of his coat in a way thatcould not but render him acutely apprehensive, but herefrained from drawing her attention to this.
Why Miss Charing should have becomeso suddenly agitated he had no idea.
The last of the punch was disposed of, thechaise bespoken, and Miss Charing once more wrapped inher thick cloak.
Miss Charing had her own ways of entering thejealously-guarded grounds of Mr.
Standen, receiving only a blank look in answer to theanguished glance of enquiry he cast at Miss Charing, saidpolitely: "Just so, ma'am!
It was not hiscustom to seek his couch at such an early hour of the evening,but he had rapidly arrived at the conclusion that any furthercolloquy with Miss Charing was likely to be punctuated byquotations from a class of persons known to him as Writing69Coves, and he decided that bed before eleven o'clock was apreferable fate.
Out ofconsideration for Miss Charing, whose wardrobe she knewto be scanty, she had declared that she would herself sitdown to dinner in her morning-dress, but she would havethought it a very odd thing not to have made some alterationin her appearance.
Standen providentiallyrecollecting that he had an engagement at the other end of thetown, the ladies fell into enthusiastic discussion of currentfashions, Miss Charing showing Lady Buckhaven the pictureof a ravishing Chinese robe of lilac silk which she haddiscovered in one of the numbers of La Belle Assembled, andLady Buckhaven arguing that a light puce would be morebecoming to her new friend.
Standen that Miss Charing had beenbred in the habits of the strictest economy, for his sister,entering wholeheartedly into his amiable plot to provideKitty with a much more expensive wardrobe than had beencontemplated by Mr.
It had notoccurred to her that Miss Charing might demand to be toldthe prices of the dresses she looked at, for it had already beenagreed between them that the dressmakers and the millinersshould be instructed to send in their bills to Lady Buck-haven, whom they knew so well.
Gently turningMiss Charing to face the mirror again, she pointed out to herthe many excellencies of the gown, and in a spate of volubilitycontrived to say that it was more economical to purchaseone expensive dress than three cheaper ones, that the sight ofmademoiselle in such a toilette must infallibly strike thebeholder like a coup de foudre, that she believed she hadconfused its price with that of the cerulean blue satin whichhad not become mademoiselle, and, finally, that to oblige sogood a customer as miladi she would make a reduction.