Deferred

Examples

• Graham, however, must go: his was a profession whose claims are neither to be ignored nor deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I deferred to his opinion, though I had great doubts of it myself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He has deferred to me, you not being of age. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I showed no resentment, I deferred quarrelling with him till it was necessary to quarrel to some purpose. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Having made this arrangement with great despatch, he assisted Mary in the long-deferred occupation of shaking the carpets. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He was also personally familiar with the ground, so that I deferred very much to him in my plans for the approach. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It may be deferred truth, but it is the truth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• My journey to Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The interview is deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The afternoon was wet: a walk the party had proposed to take to see a gipsy camp, lately pitched on a common beyond Hay, was consequently deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I have deferred it too long, and would gladly see it completed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not to make Joe uneasy by talking too much, even if I had been able to talk much, I deferred asking him about Miss Havisham until next day. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But gradually there stole over him the delicious sense of difficulties deferred and opportunities miraculously provided. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Birkin had taken out a marriage licence, yet Ursula deferred from day to day. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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