Accumulated

Examples

• The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He assembled an army, accumulated guns, and then laid claim to the Punjab, because Timur had conquered it a hundred and seven years before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The achievements accumulated from generation to generation are deposited in it even though some of them have fallen temporarily out of use. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I found the reason of the mud was that I carried so much water it passed over into the stack, and this washed out all the accumulated soot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To the lay mind a storage battery presents itself in the aspect of a device in which electric energy is STORED, just as compressed air is stored or accumulated in a tank. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The accumulated treasures of the prince have in former times afforded a much greater and more lasting resource. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• So he never admitted it, except in a secret corner of himself, where all his never-revealed fears and secrets were accumulated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Heaven forbid that I should grudge my native country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by our descendants! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The stock which is accumulated into a capital, may either be employed by the person to whom it belongs, or it may be lent to some other person. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In winter, long after the rocks and sand have given out their heat and have become cold, the water continues to give out the vast store of heat accumulated during the summer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The temples had accumulated great stores of golden vessels and lost their hold upon the imaginations of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Empirical knowledge meant the knowledge accumulated by a multitude of past instances without intelligent insight into the principles of any of them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This accumulated testimony effectually staggered Mr. Monks. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• As his knowledge accumulated, he conceived the idea of writing a great history of the attempts of Persia to subdue Greece. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those qualities may not be amiable, but great wealth is hardly ever accumulated without them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The p riests were the preservers of such wisdom as had been accumulated in the course of man's immemorial struggle with the forces of nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• About the monarch were accumulated his scribes, counsellors, record keepers, agents, captains, and guards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• How short his time, and consequently how poor will be his results, compared with those accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was like a cloud bank behind the settled landscape that accumulated and then precipitated invaders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sense of weariness returned with accumulated force, and for a moment she felt that she could walk no farther. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And even if the observer came down to a closer scrutiny, there would still be much accumulated improvement to note. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They thus secured their food, and accumulated s urprising quantities of the picked fibres of the cocoanut husk, on which they rest as a bed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Saxon princes, and the first kings after the Conquest, seem likewise to have accumulated treasures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The lower levels of mountains are frequently buried several feet under débris which has been formed in this way from higher peaks, and which has slowly accumulated at the lower levels. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They made themselves huts, and accumulated other followers to the number of threescore or more. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The distress which these accumulated claims brought upon them, obliged them not only to reduce all at once their dividend to six per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In this press, the papers in a long, long suit, which accumulated for years, were deposited. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Upon my unfortunate townsman all these incidents accumulated with playful effect. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• These aids may, therefore, be small at first; but as the capital increases by the accumulated interest, they will be more ample. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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