Conceived

Examples

• It was a tawdry and ill-conceived imitation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His ambition was to restore the empire of Jengis Khan as he conceived it, a project in which he completely failed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was miraculously conceived through his mother dreaming of a beautiful white elephant! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From this quality it is easily conceived why it should be connected with the sense of beauty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I conceived the idea that the time when the banns were read and when the clergyman said, Ye are now to declare it! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I conceived the happy idea of disappearing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Lily had never conceived of these victims of fate otherwise than in the mass. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the mean time, the mind that conceived and made practical this invention could not rest content with anything less than perfection, so far as it could be realized. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Edison system of lighting was as beautifully conceived down to the very details, and as thoroughly worked out as if it had been tested for decades in various towns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• So I conceived of an engine employing guncotton. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These inventors conceived and put in practice the great idea of employing the current from an electro-magnetic machine to excite its own electric magnet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• As to Mr. Pickwick, the affection he conceived for him knew no limits. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I believe that you have rightly conceived the origin of the change. Plato. The Republic.
• This quality was destroyed by too much responsibility for others or the necessity of undertaking something ill planned or badly conceived. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• After a little thought he conceived the nickel-iron idea, and started to work at once with characteristic energy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It would be quite possible for a narrowly conceived scheme of vocational education to perpetuate this division in a hardened form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Few, Shirley conceived, men or women have the right taste in poetry, the right sense for discriminating between what is real and what is false. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Like the paper-making machine, the power press was conceived in the last decade of the eighteenth century, and like that art was also not developed until the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I conceived that my disasters were now completely at an end, and I looked forwards to a rich harvest, with unbounded applause. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They abounded in China, in India, and in Egypt before the lyre of Apollo was invented, or the charming harp of Orpheus was conceived. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As this was just what I could do, I naturally conceived a great pride in having such a man in charge of my work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had conceived a great regard for me, and was very unwilling that I should leave the house while he remained in it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But Xerxes, like Darius I before him, had conceived a disgust for European campaigns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its basic features of operation as conceived by Edison remain unchanged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This, or something like this, is the meaning of the idea of good as conceived by Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• Upon the whole, I never beheld, in all my travels, so disagreeable an animal, or one against which I naturally conceived so strong an antipathy. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Development is conceived not as continuous growing, but as the unfolding of latent powers toward a definite goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Ponsonby, I conceived, was now mine, by right mine, by that firm courage which made me feel ready to endure any imaginable evil for his sake. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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