Rejected

Examples

• I might, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little _endeavour_ at civility, I am thus rejected. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Doctor Slammer--Doctor Slammer of the 97th rejected! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But Harriet rejected the suspicion with spirit. Jane Austen. Emma.
• This was promptly and unceremoniously rejected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Or will they prefer those whom we have rejected? Plato. The Republic.
• Did I understand, that, being rejected by one employer, he would probably be rejected by all? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• She must be confident here, for God knows, she felt rejected and deficient enough elsewhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Listen, young lady, that you may understand, if you can, what sort of a man you rejected. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Since Miss Wilfer rejected me, I have never again urged my suit, to the best of my belief, with a spoken syllable or a look. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Dreams, Rebecca,--dreams, answered the Templar; idle visions, rejected by the wisdom of your own wiser Sadducees. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He had since tried her, in his own unknown person and supposed station, and she not only rejected his advances but resented them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Like rejected love, it was apt to turn into something very like hatred. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They rejected this with scorn, and at once started a lawsuit against Gutenberg and his partners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He shrank from saying that he had rejected Bulstrode's money, in the moment when he was learning that it was Lydgate's misfortune to have accepted it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Though a rejected witness, who can't exactly say what will be done to him in greater hands than men's, thou art not quite in outer darkness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She had rejected these advances; and the time for such exuberant submission, which must be founded on love and nourished by it, was now passed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Edison and his company, therefore, rejected the offer unconditionally and declined to enter into any arrangements whatever with Goebel. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They had no faith in electric lighting, and rejected all our overtures to induce them to take up the new business of making electric-light fixtures. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had proposed for Miss Swartz, but had been rejected scornfully by the partisans of that lady, who married her to a young sprig of Scotch nobility. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Hundreds were brought to him and rejected. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He had rejected the plan of using paddles or oars, and also of forcing water out of the stern of the vessel, and had retained the idea of the paddle-wheel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He, this school autocrat, gathered all and sundry reins into the hollow of his one hand; he irefully rejected any colleague; he would not have help. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Lydgate has virtually rejected any further service from me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had obtained private intelligence that Mr. Darcy did not wish for cards; and Mr. Hurst soon found even his open petition rejected. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His offer had been rejected, and this had led a number of his friends to raise a fund and commission him to paint such a picture. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The idea of Mr. Elton was certainly cheering; but still, after a time, she was tender-hearted again towards the rejected Mr. Martin. Jane Austen. Emma.
• For one item suppressed out of respect for a railroad or a bank, nine are rejected because of the prejudices of the public. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A musical woman's voice, refusing to be rejected: it is the Citoyenne who would do France a service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Have you rejected Sir Philip Nunnely? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Ellis