Assigned

Examples

• Sheridan was telegraphed for that day, and on his arrival was assigned to the command of the cavalry corps with the Army of the Potomac. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The education which was assigned to the men was music and gymnastic. Plato. The Republic.
• I have observed in books written by men, that period assigned as the farthest to which a husband's ardour extends. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You may give up your purpose; but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He was assigned to duty, however, by the President, with the rank which his brevet gave him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Fourdrinier to engage with them in bringing the machinery to perfection, and patents obtained in this country by Mr. Gamble were assigned to them in 1804. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The position assigned to it was within about one degree of its actual place. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The utility element is found in the motives assigned for the study, the liberal element in methods of teaching. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This new division was assigned to the centre, giving the two flanking divisions an opportunity to close up and form a stronger line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Smith, a most accomplished soldier, reported at Cairo and was assigned to the command of the post at the mouth of the Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Are not these functions proper to the soul, and can they rightly be assigned to any other? Plato. The Republic.
• It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was hardly his fault that he was ever assigned to a separate command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So saying, he lifted the coronet, and placed it upon Rowena's head, in token of her acceptance of the temporary authority assigned to her. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I saw in this, a reason for her being beforehand assigned to me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Some hilding fellow he must be, who dared not stay to assert his claim to the tourney prize which chance had assigned him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• No reason had been assigned--no objection had been made to her conduct. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• General Sherman at once set himself to work preparing for the task which was assigned him to accomplish in the spring campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The night of the 24th of March was fixed upon for this assault, and General Gordon was assigned to the execution of the plan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was given a pen and assigned to the New York No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• General Humphreys, chief-of-staff of the Army of the Potomac, was assigned to the command of the 2d corps, to succeed Hancock. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Such an admission, however, ought not to be made without strong evidence being assigned. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In some individuals, appetites naturally dominate; they are assigned to the laboring and trading class, which expresses and supplies human wants. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We were assigned seats with our backs toward a small platform in the exact centre of the larger one. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• When General Halleck took the field in April, 1862, Sheridan was assigned to duty on his staff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He assigned to the Black Knight a seat at his right hand, and to Cedric a place upon his left. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Stevenson, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was assigned as his aide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We were soon assigned to new quarters, and the balance of the day was devoted to settling ourselves to the changed conditions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Comstock, aide-de-camp (now brevet brigadier-general), who accompanied the former expedition, was assigned, in orders, as chief-engineer to this. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What fate is prepared beyond the grave for her, to whom God has assigned on earth a lot of such unspeakable wretchedness? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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