Contained

Examples

• The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These good people were absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The true gold of religion was in many cases thrown away with the worn-out purse that had contained it for so long, and it was not recovered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The other clauses contained in that document were of a formal kind, and need not be recited here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It contained these two sentences in Pesca's handwriting-- Your letter is received. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Columbus, besides being strongly fortified, contained a garrison much more numerous than the force I had with me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A cylindrical tube with a perforated end contained the liquid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Which contained--' interposed Monks, stretching forward. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• His brain told him that the chest contained something valuable, or the men would not have hidden it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Opening the grenades under water and collecting the gas that escaped it was found that the average amount of carbon dioxide contained was about one cubic inch per grenade. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the time of Servius Tullius, who first coined money at Rome, the Roman as or pondo contained a Roman pound of good copper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If you were to search all England, said he, I don't suppose you could find a household more self-contained or freer from outside influences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Before I could say a word she had turned away to her book-case, and had taken from it the album that contained Walter Hartright's drawings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It contained papers, love-letters many years old--all sorts of small trinkets and woman's memoranda. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I now ask an interview, in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday, for that purpose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Yet that sentence which contained their wisdom about particular events has acquired an emotional force which persists long after the events have passed away. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In 1425, twelve shillings contained about the same quantity of silver as four-and-twenty shillings of our present money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Few of these islets contained over an acre of ground, but presently we sighted a much larger one directly ahead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject matter of knowing is that contained in learning how to do things of a fairly direct sort. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One clenched hand contained a slip of paper, on which was written, To Athens. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The letter contained only a few lines. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I--ha--I did so; and I found that it contained--ahem--two guineas. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He took Tom's trunk, which contained a very neat and abundant wardrobe, to the forecastle, where it was soon surrounded by various hands of the boat. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It contained innumerable devices that he had worked out during the years he had been experimenting at his factory. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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