Complicated

Examples

• Notwithstanding its simple action, its structure is complicated by a large amount of adding mechanism. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But I wasn't crazy in any complicated manner. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To which he added, in a small complicated hand, ending with a long lean flourish, not unlike a lasso thrown at all the rest of the names: Blandois. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His business affairs had become complicated during the strike, and required closer attention than he had given to them last winter. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Any other way would have been exceedingly complicated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It would be impossible to transplant the Aristophanic comedy to England, for modern civilization is too complicated to admit of such free speaking. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But Brown's machines were cumbrous, complicated, and difficult to work, and therefore did not come into public use. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A position which was not too simple when he stood whole-hearted had become indescribably complicated by the addition of Eustacia. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Complicated Ornamental Wood-cutting and Carving Machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was complicated enough without me--with me it was more so. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are in a divided and complicated attitude. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• By this national devotion to a single trade and its sub-division of labour, the successful production of complicated watches became great and their prices comparatively low. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As complicated and as beautiful as always. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But so simple I am very complicated. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The most complicated problems of multiplication, division and fractions may be handled with ease on these machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Activities as they grow more complicated gain added meaning by greater attention to specific results achieved. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I warn my kyind friends, then, that I am going to tell a story of harrowing villainy and complicated--but, as I trust, intensely interesting--crime. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Only vast and complicated changes in the whole texture of social life will achieve such an end. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But usually--at least in complicated situations--acting upon it brings to light conditions which had been overlooked. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It could be possible for me to remember things incorrectly and much that she told me was very complicated. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The method was not at all complicated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• One of the best modern illustrations of human thought and complicated manual operations contained in automatic machinery is the _Linotype_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They'd try something complicated and get royally cooked. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But all machines, however complicated in appearance, are in reality but modifications and combinations of one or more of four simple machines devised long ago by our remote ancestors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• That it is apt to be hampered by material necessities or complicated by moral scruples? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The time when the more complicated fireworks, which we owe both to Europe and the Orient, came into vogue in this country, no one perhaps could now definitely tell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Watson, Renwick and Watson secured patents in 1851 and 1853, but their machines were very complicated and never more than experiments. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You insinuate that all the frank kindness I have shown you has been a complicated, a bold, and an immodest man?uvre to ensnare a husband. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Typist: Melville