What is "chusing"

Usage examples of "chusing".

Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.

I am sure there must be a particular cause for her chusing to come to Highbury instead of going with the Campbells to Ireland.

There are a sort of heroes who are supposed to be determined in their chusing or avoiding a conflict by the character and behaviour of the person whom they are to engage.

Ireland, when, chusing a genteeler walk in life, he quitted his master, came over to England, and set up that business which requires no apprenticeship, namely, that of a gentleman, in which he had succeeded, as hath been already partly mentioned.

Sophia had declared she entertained of her ladyship, by chusing her house for an asylum, she promised her all the protection which it was in her power to give.

And therewithall looking about for some cudgel, hee espied where lay a fagot of wood, and chusing out a crabbed truncheon of the biggest hee could finde, did never cease beating of mee poore wretch, until such time as by great noyse and rumbling, hee heard the doores of the house burst open, and the neighbours crying in most lamentable sort, which enforced him being stricken in feare, to fly his way.

Oxford, the peace of study could for a long time be preserved only by chusing annually one of the Proctors from each side of the Trent.