Addressed

Examples

• I chatted with everybody who addressed me, just long enough to ascertain that they were uninteresting people. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She raised her eyes to my face, on being thus addressed, and her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The Grand Master then raised his voice, and addressed the assembly. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• No human evidence would ever have been able to persuade Martin Yorke that he blushed when thus addressed; yet blush he did, to the ears. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He addressed her ladyship again the moment I offered that reply. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Jaggers, putting a hand on my shoulder and walking me on at his side without saying anything to me, addressed himself to his followers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Before I left the room I turned round and addressed him for the last time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Sykes now addressed Mr. Helstone, who stood on the hearth, his shovel-hat on his head, watching him significantly with his little, keen eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There was a reproach in the touch so addressed to him that she had not foreseen, or she would have withheld her hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I spurred my horse, who addressed his free limbs to speed, and tossed his gallant head in pride. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But if his countenance was more sorrowful, his voice was more cheerful than that of his sister, especially when he addressed the old man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Maurice took the hint, and addressed himself to the Count with an air of elaborate politeness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Then he sealed it and addressed it to Captain James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The gentleman he addressed, who was talking to Mrs. Bounderby on the sofa, got up, saying in an indolent way, 'Oh really? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Compound utterances addressed themselves to their senses, and it was possible to view by ear the features of the neighbourhood. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In a few moments, a man stood in his presence, who, with a keenly observant look at him, addressed him by his name. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He should have addressed her at once in solemn accents, and with rigid mien. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Everybody was hushed into a profound stillness as the individual addressed, replied-- 'Sir! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• This time I had no reason to complain of a want of attention on the part of the person to whom I addressed myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But his languor altogether was quite a wonderful sight; except when he addressed himself to his cousin Annie. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She was in a room the folding-doors of which stood open: I went in when she addressed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was impossible to make the confession more dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He believed that Free Trade would tend to abolish many of the difficulties that divided nations, and he wrote a paper on that subject, addressed to the French Directory. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Bulstrode, the banker, seemed to be addressed, but that gentleman disliked coarseness and profanity, and merely bowed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Thornton saw a letter addressed to himself on the table. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Not another word, addressed to myself, passed his lips. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At last, he came slyly up to our party and addressed my sister Fanny. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He addressed some words to the goddess which I could not hear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go and inquire as to the address. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Luke