chewing

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Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by shewing others how to be dishonest.”

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2013

“That fellow,” said he, indignantly, “thinks of nothing but shewing off his own voice. This must not be.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

The two “sidesmen” are occupied in the two ways of shewing intelligence and contempt known as “taking a sight,” etc.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall

In a house where every thing was display, Mabel had never yet found or sought, an opportunity of shewing the talents, which vigilant and miscellaneous reading had richly cultivated.

From Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel by Newby, Emma

Devinsky was shewing the way and speaking as they all came in.

From By Right of Sword by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)