Viewed
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of View
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Examples
- In the single the object is viewed directly. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Viewed in its social bearings, however, she feels free to pronounce an opinion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Caroline, opening her eyes from a moment's slumber, viewed her nurse with an unrecognizing glance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In so far as I knew she might be already dead, for I did not know the exact date on which she first viewed Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Altogether they were not unlovely when viewed in comparison with the green Martians. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The earth as the home of man is humanizing and unified; the earth viewed as a miscellany of facts is scattering and imaginatively inert. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The _Spectroscope_ is an instrument by which the colours of the solar rays are separated and viewed, as well as those of other incandescent bodies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Here was a small rough hole in the mud wall, originally made for pigeons, through which the interior of the next shed could be viewed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In her eyes Tracy Tupman was a youth; she viewed his years through a diminishing glass. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When the reflection is viewed in the looking glass through the slits, the figures rapidly passing in succession before the slits appear to have the movements of life. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I viewed her from top to toe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Viewed as work, this decoration was slow to do, and dirty to deal with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I am not mad, I cried energetically; the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We have seen that light is bent when it passes from one medium to another of different density, and that objects viewed by refracted light do not appear in their proper positions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- How different had this scene looked when I viewed it laid out beneath the iron sky of winter, stiffened in frost, shrouded with snow! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What contradictory attributes of character we sometimes find ascribed to us, according to the eye with which we are viewed! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In what light we are viewed by superior beings, may be gathered from a piece of late West India news, which, possibly, has not yet reached you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In the compound two or more lenses are so arranged that the image formed by one is magnified by the others, and viewed as if it were the object itself. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A tug was then summoned, and the big fellow was towed one hundred and ten miles to Miami, Florida, where it was viewed by thousands of people. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No sensible person, in a similar position, could have viewed the matter in any other way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Viewed objectively, the idea of good is a power or cause which makes the world without us correspond with the world within. Plato. The Republic.
- She had no face--no features: all below her brow was masked with a white cloth; but she had eyes, and they viewed me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I viewed him from a distance, and could never get very close to him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telescope, it looked disconcertingly small and distant; but then from Samarkand it would. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He re-folded it, and viewed the writer with a strange, tender, mournful amaze. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He viewed the captured women at the end of the day, and she found favour in his eyes and was taken to his tent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His niece viewed his man?uvres and received his innuendoes with phlegm; apparently she did not above half comprehend to what aim they tended. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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