Reminded

Examples

• You have reminded me, Sir, that this conversation was private--private and confidential, gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But Mr. Bruff reminded me that somebody must put my cousin's legacy into my cousin's hands--and that I might as well do it as anybody else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He never came there, I reminded him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As we went he reminded me of what I was to say and do, yet, strange to say, I entered the chamber without having once reflected on my purpose. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I wonder whether they called in Mr. Chillip, and he was in vain; and if so, how he likes to be reminded of it once a week. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This reminded me of the wonderful difference between the servile manner in which he had offered his hand in my new prosperity, saying, May I? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• One is reminded of the lines of Tennyson: Large elements in order brought And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world fluctuation swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In her snowy-frilled cap she reminded one of that delightful Frenchwoman whom we have all seen marketing, basket on arm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Am I worth those loans of money which you so delicately reminded me of a little while since? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My daughter reminded me of Mr. Candy's illness, owing (as you may remember) to the chill he had caught on the night of the dinner-party. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Nothing could be worse form the look reminded Archer, than any display of temper in a public place. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Shirley said she liked the green sweep of the common turf, and, better still, the heath on its ridges, for the heath reminded her of moors. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She sang the songs he asked for, with feeling; they reminded her of a parent to whom she had been truly attached; they reminded her of her young days. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was a hot, wild night, and they were all three reminded of the old Sunday night when they had looked at the lightning from the same place. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Besides, in a country parish I should be so painfully reminded of Helstone, and my duties here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His countenance reminded one of a lamp quenched, waiting to be re-lit--and alas! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He merely reminded me that he was close at hand; and I had but to touch my bell, to bring him in an instant to my side. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The question instantly reminded me of the letter in my pocket. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The wind rising now reminded him how soon it would be morning. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It reminded us of poor Maximilian, so lately shot. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They sat without a fire; but that was a privation familiar even to Fanny, and she suffered the less because reminded by it of the East room. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• His fine, black hair somehow reminded her of a bat, thin as it was on his full, sensitive-looking head, and worn away at the temples. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It had reminded Ursula again of home, of the Marsh, of her childhood, and of the journey to Brussels, and, strangely, of Anton Skrebensky. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As often as I caught the younger brother's eyes, their expression reminded me that he disliked me deeply, for knowing what I knew from the boy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They reminded me much of Indians, did these people. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You have not told me where we are, I reminded him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I reminded him, at the hopeful change he had made in Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Mexican general reminded us that it was a violation of the truce for us to be there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• People hate to be reminded of ills they are unable or unwilling to remedy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As a blind in more senses than one, it reminded him that he was alone in the counting-house with the front door open. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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