Dealt

Examples

• Scarce any nation has dealt equally and impartially with every sort of industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The first letters he read were very formal, very carefully written and dealt almost entirely with local happenings. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Let me know how you would have dealt with me if you had regarded me as being what you would have considered on equal terms with you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His figures, which usually dealt with historical, mythological, or allegorical subjects, were executed in relief, and colored. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We have dealt thus lengthily with the First Crusade, because it displays completely the quality of all these expeditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have advised a prodigious number of clients, and have dealt with some exceedingly awkward difficulties, in my time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If he had dealt Clennam a heavy blow, instead of laying that light touch upon him, its effect could not have been to shake him more. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The Almighty hath dealt _very bitterly_ with me! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I have but one excuse for not having dealt frankly with you in this matter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Is any man insane enough to imagine that this picnic of patriarchs sang, made love, danced, laughed, told anecdotes, dealt in ungodly levity? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was a stab that the blood followed, in its rush to Bradley Headstone's face, as swiftly as if it had been dealt with a dagger. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We have dealt thus fully with the beginnings of science in the Middle Ages because of its ultimate importance in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She won the game, and I dealt. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Most of these maidens were not wealthy, but some few had been very kindly dealt with by fortune. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Not in my own behalf: on that score I--I have fully dealt with myself. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She knew she had dealt a cruel wound, and she could not bear it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then, I shall kiss the hand, said he; but that moment it became a miniature fist, and dealt him payment in a small coin that was 漀琀??kisses. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her mistress Sarai, even though Sarai had dealt harshly with her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• No fierce dry blast has dealt rudely with the surface of her frame; no burning sun has crisped or withered her tresses. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A butcher I once dealt with occupied that very ground. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The largest masses of iron that could be dealt with under those conditions amounted at most (in the sixteenth century) to two or three tons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He might not be so gently dealt with outside as he is there. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The principles of many of these devices are still used in the arts, but have become so incorporated in other devices as to be inseparable, and cannot now be dealt with separately. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Specified facts and qualities constitute the elements of the problem to be dealt with, and it is through our sense organs that they are specified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The other, however, dealt a single blow with his cruel tail that laid both of the females crushed corpses upon the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Such a vocational education inevitably discounts the scientific and historic human connections of the materials and processes dealt with. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Belshazzar, the son of the last Babylonian king, dealt in wool on a considerable scale. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• With regard to the importation of goods from Europe, England has likewise dealt more liberally with her colonies than any other nation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Her heart was previously affected, and physical exhaustion has dealt the finishing blow. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Editor: Wilma