taking

• […] a Proteus-Devil appeared unto him, changing into Shapes, but fixing himself at last into the form of a Fair Woman. Strange, that Satan (so subtil in making his Temptations most taking) should preferre this form […]...
• His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking. - 1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 9, in The Younger Brother, volume 2, London: for the author, page 263:
• “Yes, Paris must be a taking place,” said Humphrey. “Grand shop-winders, trumpets, and drums; and here be we out of doors in all winds and weathers—” - 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 3, Chapter 1:

• All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones, You taking airs, with lameness! - c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
• Come not near me, For I am yet too taking for your company. - 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The False One, act IV, scene 3:

• At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting. - 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 27, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 290:
• Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round)...

• What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket? - 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene III:
• "[...] at last, he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird. He might have stuck a knife into her neck, she started round in such a taking. "'Get away,...
• “And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your...

• Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.
• Count the shop's takings.
• [...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens. - 1929, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in A Room of One’s Own, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1931, page...

Synonyms: income receipts

• Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them. -...