Traced

Examples

• It _is_ wonderful, replied Wickham, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride; and pride had often been his best friend. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I have been a little hard on her, perhaps, in my own thoughts--I have almost hoped that the loss of the Diamond might be traced to _her_. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Its pioneer form may be traced back to the Middle Ages, when heavy weights were lifted by aid of an apparatus worked by hand power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She told him how she had traced him, reproached him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• All records had been heretofore traced for visual inspection only. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mr. Whiffers then added that he feared a portion of this outrage might be traced to his own forbearing and accommodating disposition. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I have traced her to a shop at Frizinghall, kept by a linen draper named Maltby. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I traced his progress downwards, step by step, until at last he reached that excess of destitution from which he never rose again. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• While the record is being traced the waxed disc is kept flooded with alcohol from a glass jar, seen in the cut, to soften the film and prevent the clogging of the stylus. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Aristotle traced with some care the embryological develo pment of the chick from the fourth day of incubation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But the same hand which has cast the celestial spheres in space, has traced their course in the heavens, and does not allow them to wander at random to disturb and destroy each other. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Surely, having traced this lady so far, you can also say what has become of her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The hand that struck him was never traced, and the circumstances under which he was killed were never discovered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Had she been traced and captured by the men in the chaise? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On the blank page at the beginning, to which I first turned, were traced some lines in faded ink. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She traced with her hands the line of his loins and thighs, at the back, and a living fire ran through her, from him, darkly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thus vessels laden with coal have been traced that had been many years under the water and deeply covered with sand and silt, and their cargoes brought to the surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• From that point, I have already traced the succession of events which led me to the astounding discovery at the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A vast shadow, in which could be dimly traced portions of a masculine contour, blotted half the ceiling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They left Brighton together on Sunday night, and were traced almost to London, but not beyond; they are certainly not gone to Scotland. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And all these gradations can be actually traced. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have traced her this evening to your fishing village, and to one particular cottage, which we may possibly have to visit, before we go back. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have traced her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The few blotted hurriedly-written lines which were traced on it contained these words: Come back as soon as you can. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• So remarkable a phaenomenon merits our attention, and must be traced up to its first principles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Quietly, quietly, the ruled and cross-ruled countenance on which they were traced, became fair and blank. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Juanita