Aided

Examples

• I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• One trouble with all these contrivances was that, although they aided man to figure, they offered no means of making a record of the work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To this can the light look of woman, aided by the Prince of the Powers of this world, bring a valiant and worthy knight! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Robert Stephenson was the engineer of this great structure, aided by the suggestions of Fairbairn and other eminent engineers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When you discover the work, aided by wife and children, you will do it, and thus be happy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But he always aided and comforted me when he could, in some way of his own, and he always did so at dinner-time by giving me gravy, if there were any. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This state of the eyes is probably due to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Herein, too, the sense of even thinking unselfishly aided him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It may be said that the certitude of the existence of such a glass aided me, and that without this knowledge I would never have succeeded. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• How much more when aided by that circumstance? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The English system consists more in the use of extended and successive reservoirs or beds of sand alone, or aided by the use of the sulphate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is incredible that this blood-bespattered room contained no trace which could have aided us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She had aided me substantially and effectually by a loan of five thousand pounds. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Yorke, instead of opposing, aided and abetted him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Didn't you refuse to be medically aided before the others? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Was his endurance aided also by the reflection that Mr. Brooke was the uncle of Dorothea? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The process was subsequently aided by the introduction of pig iron broken into pieces and mixed with hammer-slag, cinder, and ore. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In performing other offices of the toilet, she half-directed, half-aided me, without the least display of temper or impatience. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In this attitude they w ere aided by their subject and method. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He also aided agriculture by discovering a vaccine for swine plague. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The beseeching words were aided by a beseeching gesture and a more beseeching look. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I don't know whether they were entirely of your doing; probably a master aided you? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I had made a rough calculation, aided by the stars, by which I endeavoured to ascertain the first day of the new year. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I must be aided, and by that hand: and aided I was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Well, but is there any war on record which was carried on successfully by him, or aided by his counsels, when he was alive? Plato. The Republic.
• She kept her husband's love, she aided in his progress--of his happiness she was the corner stone. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There was a piston in the cylinder driven up by the steam admitted below it, aided by a counterpoise at one end of an engine beam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the one case the relation is aided by another principle: In the other case, it is opposed by it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The draught of the chimney, aided by the escaping steam from the cylinders, which was admitted into it, served to keep the fuel in active combustion. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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