..." In other parts a challenge to try a race would have been given, and you may frequently see grown men adopting that means of testing superiority, like so many children... 
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... testing it...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
...Hetried the coat on and looked himself over carefully, testing the quality andblowing upon the hair to see that none of it came out...
Leo Tolstoy 「The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories」
...Up to the time of testing, that is,about the fifth day, the incubator is run at a temperatureof from 101 to 102 degrees...
Harry M. Lamon 「Ducks and Geese」
...Since the techniques involved in testing were greatly improved as theinvestigation proceeded, the summary is based solely on those tests run in thelater stages of the investigation...
William B. Stallcup 「Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae」
...The returns from testing British cattle with tuberculin, supplied by theRoyal Veterinary College, as stated in March, 1900, showed that among 15,392animals tested 4,105, or 26 per cent, reacted...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...It is in gathering and testing the materials for anest that the orioles display no little ingenuity...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...Instead I touchedhim behind the ears, feeling my way gingerly through the thick tangle ofspines, testing them cautiously to see how easily they would pull out...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...Only his big ears moved,turning their wary interrogations toward every point of the compass,and his big nostrils suspiciously testing every current of air...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...The slow,the never-ending approach to truth consists in perpetually formingand testing hypotheses, accepting those which at the time seem tofit the facts and rejecting the others...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Hence arose the liberty allowed the samurai of cutting down, in cold blood, a beggar, a merchant, or a farmer on the slightest provocation, or simply for the purpose of testing his sword...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...It is so called from the use to which it has beenput from time immemorial, as an ordeal for testing the guilt orinnocence of an accused person...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...Then Lambert would go to work again, testing, testing—adjusting thisand that till Phillips swore under his breath...
Various 「Astounding Stories, April, 1931」
...They're used for testing leaksin the different deck and compartment divisions...
Edmond Hamilton 「The Sargasso of Space」
...They were testing a gun...
Charles Willard Diffin 「Two Thousand Miles Below」
...Sarka partially removed his life mask,and testing the atmosphere of the place, found it capable of beingbreathed without the mask...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930」
...He locked the door behind him, to find his associatesalready busy, testing circuits and apparatus...
Roman Frederick Starzl 「The Martian Cabal」
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