Superintended

Examples

• I did not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the wide awakes --Republicans--in their rooms, and superintended their drill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He won't be here this three-quarters of an hour or more,' said the young lady who superintended the domestic arrangements of the Blue Boar. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In it is a marble chair which Helena used to sit in while she superintended her workmen when they were digging and delving for the True Cross. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The men all turned out the morning after their enlistment, and I took charge, divided them into squads and superintended their drill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Paul superintended my repast, and almost forced upon me more than I could swallow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The council, mindful of its social duties, superintended the filling of the municipal granaries, in order to have supplies in years of scarcity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the same year he superintended the gilding, by electro-plate, of the iron dome of the Cathedral of St. Isaac at St. Petersburgh, using 274 pounds of ducat gold. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Wilson, a member of my staff, planned and superintended the construction of this bridge, going into the water and working as hard as any one engaged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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