Carried

Examples

• During the day Meade assaulted and carried one more redan to his right and two to his left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mr. Beaufort's secret, people were agreed, was the way he carried things off. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Captain Lydgate's stupidity was delicately scented, carried itself with style, talked with a good accent, and was closely related to Sir Godwin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The boiler was tubular, and the exhaust steam was carried into the chimney by a pipe in front of the smoke stack as shown. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mrs Boffin has carried the day, and we're going in neck and crop for Fashion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It would then be carried on the shoulders of the men to their camps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The distillation should be carried to, say, 600 degrees or 700 degrees Fahr. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• All that the cavalryman carried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• On the extreme right, however, his reserve brigade carried the enemy's works twice, and was twice driven therefrom by infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Apparently it carried this vast body kangaroo fashion on its tail and hind legs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The judges chosen were Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my point. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Catherine wore hobnailed boots and a cape and carried a stick with a sharp steel point. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Under his rule were carried out the dragonnades, a peculiarly malignant and effectual form of persecution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He carried his sixty years as if they had been fewer than forty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• One of the two men who had carried it looked in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Siemens in the provisional specification of his British patent No. 2,064, of 1857, but it does not seem at that time to have been carried out with any practical result. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They were then carried through the receiving armature and reproduced on the receiving diaphragm, with all the same characteristics of pitch, loudness and quality. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I went out and carried my bags up the stairs. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• During this length of time the shell might have been carried by a marine country of average swiftness to a distance of 660 geographical miles. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Warren's march carried him immediately behind the works where Hancock's command lay on the Brock Road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At the hospital we went in and I carried the bag. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She told no one, but concocted a 'thrilling tale', and boldly carried it herself to Mr. Dashwood, editor of the Weekly Volcano. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And as the spring tried to get back to its place of rest it carried back the balance also. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Everything had been destroyed or carried away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The vote of thanks was carried unanimously. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• She had left her room: was able to go out; and mixing once more with the family, carried joy into the hearts of all. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Wood-working implements in which the cutting tool was carried by a sliding block were described in the English patents of General Sir Samuel Bentham and Joseph Bramah, in 1793-94. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• From Logan's position now a direct forward movement carried him over open fields, in rear of the enemy and in a line parallel with them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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