Alleged

Examples

• There are other circumstances which throw doubt on this alleged Goebel anticipation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The partial statement of natural development takes the primitive powers in an alleged spontaneous development as the end-all. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Most of the remainder of children's alleged native egoism is simply an egoism which runs counter to an adult's egoism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The facts which are cited in support of the alleged pure egoism of children really show the intensity and directness with which they go to their mark. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One night, to test his alleged fearlessness, a man stationed himself behind a tree and enveloped himself in a sheet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This secession was an immense loss to her, she alleged. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is only cotton, I alleged, hurriedly; and cheaper, and washes better than any other colour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You will hear that pipe alleged against me by Bulstrode and Company. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The present state of Maine was bought by Massachusetts from its alleged owner for twelve hundred and fifty pounds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Most of his alleged subordinates were in fact independent, and willing to make war on the king at the slightest provocation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Miss Brooke was certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The defence alleged the Goebel anticipation, in support of which it offered in evidence four lamps, Nos. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The opposite school would treat the alleged Alpine race simply as a number of local brachycephalic varieties of Nordic or Iberian peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the publication was long after the alleged event, and is regarded as apocryphal. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Give it to Shirley and Caroline; they did it, was alleged, with more attention to effect than truth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There are various ways, equally conclusive, of criticizing this conception, in both its alleged foundations and in its educational application. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Bear in mind that interest means the active or moving identity of the self with a certain object, and the whole alleged dilemma falls to the ground. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• When he grows up to manhood, he learns that his alleged are not his real parents; but who the real are he is unable to discover. Plato. The Republic.
• If I had done it as alleged, is it conceivable that I would have made this and this mistake? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• No one can accuse him of rashness, alleged Caroline. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nor is the spirit of the laboratory work represented in the following dialogue overheard between two alleged carpenters picked up at random to help on a hurry job. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Criticism was directed upon this separation of the alleged powers from one another and from the material upon which they act. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mr. Sam offered to accompany her into the open air; just the way to give her her death of cold, she alleged. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The reason alleged was their determined resolution of not leaving their mother at that time of the year. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• That copper and tin combined would make bronze was a more complex proceeding and probably followed instead of preceding, as has sometimes been alleged, the making of iron tools. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If I had done it as alleged, should I have left that unguarded place which that false and wicked witness against me so infamously deposed to? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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