Deem

Examples

• Indeed Scott did not deem it important to hold anything beyond the Rio Grande, and authorized Taylor to fall back to that line if he chose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I don't wish to throw away my time and trouble on an offering you would deem worthless. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Let me not think you deem so wretchedly ill of my nation as your commons believe. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The world may deem it harsh, but I'd quite as soon pitch into my best friend as not. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• With regard to the utility of this discovery the court would deem it a waste of time to dwell long upon this topic. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is not that I am without the wish; but you know how impossible my father would deem it that James should put-to for such a purpose. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They were sanctioned by the authority of heaven, and it was deemed impiety to alter them. Plato. The Republic.
• If Napoleon had deemed it best to have continued his journey across the Atlantic to America he would have been compelled to pass several weeks on an uncomfortable sailing vessel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• One side or the other had to yield principles they deemed dearer than life before it could be brought to an end. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I shouldn't have deemed it at all proud if you had thought US too umble for you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• On the latter date a full-page article appeared in the New York Herald which so intensified the excited feeling that Mr. Edison deemed it advisable to make a public exhibition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The conversation exhibiting these unequivocal symptoms of verging on the personal, Mr. Pickwick deemed it a fit point at which to interpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy--not as angels, but as few are happy amongst mortals. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Moreover, I hold him that deems himself the best of you, bound to answer to me with his body for this aggression on my freedom. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I now find, after over thirty days of trial, the enemy deems it of the first importance to run no risks with the armies they now have. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mrs Veneering stopping here, Mr Podsnap deems it incumbent on him to say: 'I wonder why! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A bargain, in which every true Catholic deems himself a gainer. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Deeming the return dangerous he did not like to order any one to carry it, so he called for a volunteer. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sir Leicester, deeming it time to dismiss the officer, here majestically interposes with the words, Very good. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I let you go as a babe, because you were pretty, and I feared your loveliness, deeming it the stamp of perversity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Sir Sluggish Knight, I drink to thee, said the hermit; respecting thy valour much, but deeming wondrous slightly of thy discretion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He bowed to Lady Ingram, as deeming her the eldest lady present. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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