Accounted

Examples

• Granting that to be the right reading of the riddle, it accounted, perhaps, for her flighty, self-conceited manner when she passed me in the hall. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If I inflicted this shock upon him to-morrow morning, how could the immediate change in him be accounted for? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Now it is accounted for: the secret I discovered in your mother. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The housekeeper was now the only person who remained to be accounted for. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The suddenness of the effect can be accounted for only by a cause which can operate suddenly, the accidental variations of the seasons. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• For this reason the present phaenomenon will be sufficiently accounted for, in explaining that passion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It should be by day in outstep, ill-accounted places like this! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A handsome mince-pie had been made yesterday morning (which accounted for the mincemeat not being missed), and the pudding was already on the boil. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Four was the number of the leaders to be accounted for. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The captain said she had once gone at the rate of thirteen knots, which is accounted thirteen miles per hour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Before her marriage she was accounted the beauty of the district. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Their art constitutes their one claim to be accounted more than common savages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She accounted for it, however, by supposing that her last letter to her friend from Longbourn had by some accident been lost. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She is inclined to consider that his long absence from his native country may be accounted for by assuming that he is a political exile. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And it was too intolerable that Casaubon's dislike of him should not be fairly accounted for to Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The improvement and prosperity of Great Britain, which has been so often ascribed to those laws, may very easily be accounted for by other causes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But it was the first time I had taken my seat at his side in my mourning dress, and that accounted for it, I considered. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This accounted to Elizabeth for Mr. Wickham's being among them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• This is accounted for after the same manner. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I thus accounted to myself for her agitation; but this was not all, and the sequel revealed another excuse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This may be accounted for from the same principles, that explained the influence of general rules on the understanding. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And this is easily accounted for from the known properties of human nature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The high rate of interest which took place in those ancient times, may, perhaps, be partly accounted for from this cause. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This accounted for Mrs. Yeobright's acquiescence in the revival of an evidently sore subject. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Two have been fired and two wounds inflicted, so that each bullet can be accounted for. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• How is this to be accounted for? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A bleeding about the poll on Sunday afternoons was amply accounted for by the explanation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A broken or interrupted range may often be accounted for by the extinction of the species in the intermediate regions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was remarkable (but perhaps the wretched life he had led accounted for it) that he was the least anxious of any of us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Some hundred black devils have I accounted for during nearly a year of the rites of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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