Compounded

Examples

• The noble lady's condition on these delightful occasions was one compounded of heroic endurance and heroic forgiveness. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The removal of either of these destroys the passion; which evidently proves that the cause Is a compounded one. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The above view of the sterility of hybrids being caused by two constitutions being compounded into one has been strongly maintained by Max Wichura. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Her sentiments towards him were compounded of all that was respectful, grateful, confiding, and tender. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The gum from the grinding mills is taken to the mixing mills, where, between the large rolls, the various materials are compounded into a homogeneous mass. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The compounded rubber goes from the mixing mills to refining mills, to be prepared for the calenders. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But this is principally the case with those ideas which are abstruse and compounded. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The wine and water was hollands and water, as Mr. Sykes discovered when he had compounded and swallowed a brimming tumbler thereof. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Those bombs at Los Angeles, assassination and terrorism, are compounded of courage, indignation and ignorance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now this is no more true of matter, than of spirit; of an extended compounded substance, than of a simple and unextended. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I had compounded the medicine which had done her good--I had warned her of her danger from Sir Percival. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Some of his rich relations might have paid his debts or compounded for 'em. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The soul, I said, being, as is now proven, immortal, must be the fairest of compositions and cannot be compounded of many elements? Plato. The Republic.
• The place had that peculiar sickening, unwholesome smell, compounded of mingled damp, dirt and decay, which one often notices in close old houses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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