Controlled

Examples

• Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She controlled herself nobly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The pendulum of the controlling clock, in swinging to either side, makes a brief contact, which completes the circuit of a galvanic battery, and thus sends a current to the controlled clock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They are the means by which the direction of action is controlled. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They taught also how the gas should be distilled, condensed, cleaned, scrubbed, confined in retorts, and its flow measured and controlled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• After a time he controlled himself, and, resting with an elbow on one knee, and his head upon that hand, could look towards Rachael. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Socially, it reflects a division between those who are controlled by direct concern with things and those who are free to cultivate themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He himself happened to be a controlling, central part, the masses of men were the parts variously controlled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He seized the valve that controlled the whistle. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The amount of supporting surface had been reduced by about eighty square feet, and a change had been made in the lever that turned the rudder and controlled the equilibrating device. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I had no time to talk, I was becoming very weak and it was with difficulty that I controlled my mind at all. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• She was always so completely controlled, yet so bitterly nervous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The man?uvre showed how easily the airships were controlled. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There was something of indignation expressed in her countenance, but so kept down and controlled, that it gave her a superb air of disdain. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• These jacks were controlled by a series of valves, which were so designed that any one jack or any set of jacks desired could be operated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Five barges of clay had been dumped in the river over this point to make a roof for the tunnel, but the fluid clay could not be controlled, and crept through the doors of the shield. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But he controlled himself, and only said, with a touch of despotic firmness-- What I am to do in my practice, Rosy, it is for me to judge. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Soon she controlled her emotion, and took all her feelings under command. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Newland Archer was a quiet and self-controlled young man. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Jay Gould at that time controlled the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, and was competing with the Western Union and endeavoring to depress Western Union stock on the Exchange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her grief burst out when she first saw me; but she controlled it soon, and spoke in whispers, and walked softly, as if the dead could be disturbed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• For a time it seemed that a moderate and controlled revolution might be possible--perhaps under a new Tsar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This mistress loved gossip and enjoyed a periodically controlled promiscuity which seemed only to amuse Karkov. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Make a blind struggle luminous, drag an unconscious impulse into the open day, see that men are aware of their necessities, and the future is in a measure controlled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here there was a choke that couldn't be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his 'confounded throat'. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Heat, if properly regulated and controlled, would never be injurious to man; hence in the following paragraphs heat will be considered merely in its helpful capacity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was the sturdy wilfulness of a man usually most reasonable and self-controlled. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Fluctuations in the lake due to floods are controlled by an immense spillway dam built of concrete. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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