Presided
[pri'zaidid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Preside
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Examples
- Miss Clarissa presided. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- BOUNDERBY being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What happy combination of the planets presided over her birth, I wonder? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In a school carried on by sheer cruelty, whether it is presided over by a dunce or not, there is not likely to be much learnt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Doctor Mell (of Colonial Salem-House Grammar School, Port Middlebay) presided, and on his right sat the distinguished guest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Old Wardle would not hear of his rising, so they made the bed the chair, and Mr. Pickwick presided. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Woe to the defaulter whose appeal lay to the tribunal where those severe eyes presided. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle's household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Some registers were lying open on a desk, and an officer of a coarse, dark aspect, presided over these. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Before each hut a woman presided over a boiling stew, while little cakes of plantain, and cassava puddings were to be seen on every hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was not his first council of the Church, for he had already (in 313) presided over a council at Arles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Eusebius gives a curious account of this strange gathering, over which the Emperor, although he was not yet a baptized Christian, presided. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Jaggers presided, Estella sat opposite to him, I faced my green and yellow friend. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Over these viands presided the lady who had spoken from the window. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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