Tended

Examples

• Mr. Crawley had tended that otherwise friendless bedside. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The shepherds that tended them were the very pictures of Joseph and his brethren I have no doubt in the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But in music there was nothing which tended to that good which you are now seeking. Plato. The Republic.
• I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Upon his return to England, he was led to make a number of experiments, all of which tended to confirm the observation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I took him to my own room, had a good bed made for him, dressed his wounds, and tended him myself, until he got fairly on his feet again. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The wind tended to carry the aeroplane to the east, but Orville Wright was able to hold it on a fairly even course, and to reach the balloon at Shuter’s Hill that marked the turning point. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through, uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Fourthly, pigeons have been watched and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The situation tended to raise the question as to the existence of anything constant and universal in the realm of nature and society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• An old black woman tended me; and a doctor came to see me, and there was a great deal of care taken of me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Bless you, sir, the way she tended them two children after the mother died was the talk of the yard! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Bute never knew, or at least never acknowledged, how far her own tyrannous behaviour had tended to ruin her husband. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Here it was that she tended her boy and watched him through the many ills of childhood, with a constant passion of love. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But in all ultimate moral matters, it tended to reinstate the principle of authority. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As to Mr. Harthouse, whither _he_ tended, he neither considered nor cared. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Every man tended more and more to do what was right in his own eyes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But his words were of no avail, and only tended to anger Black Michael, so he was forced to desist and make the best he could of a bad situation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• However, that did not quite please him, as he thought it tended to make me too vain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As the fire augmented, symptoms of it became soon apparent in the chamber, where Ivanhoe was watched and tended by the Jewess Rebecca. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was rough as the elements, and unlearned as the animals I tended. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She tended him through a series of unheard-of illnesses with a fidelity most admirable. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It all tended to a good end, my friend; it was not mere waste and ruin. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It occurring to him, perhaps, that if they had been Curates, their wishes might have tended in the opposite direction. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Object lessons tended to isolate the mere sense-activity and make it an end in itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The evidence given before the Committee was greatly in favor of steam carriages, and tended to show that there was no insuperable difficulty to the general adoption of them. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But this only tended to aggravate. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Her present visit to London tended to augment her state of inquietude, by shewing in its utmost extent the ravages occasioned by pestilence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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