Delivered

Examples

• Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I listened with amazement to this explanation, which Holmes delivered between the puffs of his cigarette. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• These the waggoner delivered to each of us respectively, reading the name aloud first. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This was the sum of my speech, delivered with great improprieties and hesitation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He delivered the jewels to the Abbot, and then showed him the pictures. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Rachael's letter had gone, Rachael's letter had been delivered. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The person who had delivered the letter was of little consequence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And she produced from her pocket a most housewifely bunch of keys, and delivered them to the servant. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, and veiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This speech was delivered with an energy and readiness quite unusual with Mr. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It had been left in his charge in the morning, with a strict injunction that it should not be delivered until night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But this blow was delivered with such violence that the head of the weapon sank deep into the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then, his preaching was ingenious and pithy, like the preaching of the English Church in its robust age, and his sermons were delivered without book. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But yet hope was there none, neither to the afflicted to be delivered, neither yet to the purchaser [i. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It was the law of my fathers, said Rebecca; it was delivered in thunders and in storms upon the mountain of Sinai, in cloud and in fire. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mrs. Rogers is a-goin',' replied Master Bardell, opening his eyes very wide as he delivered the intelligence. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The person who had been called Misse Cassy now came forward, and, with a haughty, negligent air, delivered her basket. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Here, replied Front-de-Boeuf, here it must be delivered--weighed it must be--weighed and told down on this very dungeon floor. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Who could taste the fine flavor in the name of Brooke if it were delivered casually, like wine without a seal? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I delivered this written communication (slate and all) with my own hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in question. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• A dispatch for General Golz to be delivered at his headquarters, Comrade Marty. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The man's skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker delivered from behind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The finished product is delivered to a belt-driven coiling reel on which it is wound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Thomasin paid them a hurried visit, and Clym's share was delivered up to him by her own hands. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I spoke in the Balnibarbian tongue, and my interpreter delivered my meaning in that of Luggnagg. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The stock is delivered to the charging floor in iron boxes loaded on narrow-gauge buggies, and is charged into the furnaces by electric charging machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the sulphite process the chips are then delivered into the digesters shown in Fig. 128, which are supplied with sulphurous acid generated in a plant shown in Fig. 129. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She could think a multitude of questions she never ventured to put, give advice in her mind which her tongue never delivered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This pretended African speech was an excellent parody of one delivered by Mr. Jackson, of Georgia. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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