Example Sentences

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I am fiddling away at the preliminaries of my pictures, a disjointed and desultory period through which one has to wade to get at one's large canvas.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

A chap can load and fire twenty times perhaps while I am fiddling with this trigger.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)