Declined

Examples

• Investigation of these cases, however, revealed invariably the purely fraudulent nature of all such offers, which were uniformly declined. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Miss Kate and Mr. Brooke, Meg, and Ned declined, but Fred, Sallie, Jo, and Laurie piled and drew, and the lot fell to Laurie. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Floyd turned over the command to Pillow, who declined it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When I knocked for admission a priest came to the door who, while extremely polite, declined to admit us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is needless to say that I declined to understand that he was offended with me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mrs. Strong had declined to play, on the ground of not feeling very well; and her cousin Maldon had excused himself because he had some packing to do. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• How can you imagine it, since he has so lately declined everything from you? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But with the encreased mortality this intercourse declined and ceased. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• On one such occasion, when Wilbur Wright found the weather conditions unsatisfactory, he declined to fly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I declined offering an opinion, fearing to do harm. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He has declined the proposal, if my information from Mr. Tulkinghorn be correct, as I have no doubt it is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But as the day declined, the life seemed to go down too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He further gave me leave to accompany the prisoner to London; but declined to accord that grace to my two friends. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But this he declined, as he was dirty and wet. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Rachel declined to see me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She had declined to answer the questions which Miss Halcombe naturally put, but had not, in other respects, treated her with unkindness or neglect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He offered to drive me down all the way with his own horses; but on certain conditions, which I declined. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It will be 'declined with thanks,' and left for me at the publisher's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr Inspector declined eating, but assented to the proposal of a glass of brandy and water. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You know that at length I gave it up, and declined to guess any more. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Rochester, I have just discovered the sun is far declined from its meridian, and Pilot is actually gone home to his dinner. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Elinor, with great civility, declined the proposal. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• As quartermaster he declined to fill the requisition, and endorsed on the back of it his reasons for so doing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Paul, who was unused to him and his impulses, would naturally have bungled at this offer--declined accepting the same--et cetera. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I would have given anything not to have been so much in the bright old lady's confidence if I could have possibly declined it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was not notified in advance so as to be able to decline and thus prevent the performance; but in both cases I civilly declined to attend. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This time Raffles declined to be seen off the premises, as he expressed it--declined to quit Middlemarch under Bulstrode's eyes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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