Described

Examples

• He described her ladyship as willing to acknowledge that she had spoken over-hastily. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had invented, he informed us, a new mixture to moisten paint with, which he described as a vehicle. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A highly characteristic event at the age of six is described by his sister. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He said that he would return my letter if I would bring him a certain document which he described in my husband's despatch-box. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He described the experience in the following words:-- A thrilling, extending from the chest to the extremities, was almost immediately p roduced. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One or other of those shady Englishmen to whom I have alluded, would get them the copy you have described. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Many rich people, whom we poor devils are in the habit of envying, lead contentedly an existence like that above described. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The spinning machine is simply an improved form of Crompton's mule, already described. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Wood-working implements in which the cutting tool was carried by a sliding block were described in the English patents of General Sir Samuel Bentham and Joseph Bramah, in 1793-94. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He laughed, hearing himself described. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then if there be any city which may be described as master of its own pleasures and desires, and master of itself, ours may claim such a designation? Plato. The Republic.
• This fact he utilized by the means which he has described, a lamp having a filamentary carbon burner in a nearly perfect vacuum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The right of the crown to those countries described by the author is justified. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Absorption and Compression Methods Described. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Barff, said the process he had described was remarkable for its great simplicity and the ease with which it could be carried out. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Its main features are described as follows: The types, being rubbed or scraped narrower toward the foot, were to be fixed radially upon a cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He described this republic; shewed how it gave privilege to each individual in the state, to rise to consequence, and even to temporary sovereignty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is described in a book written in 1546 and it has also a modern interest, which is set forth by Prof. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I remembered the ancient fables, in which human beings are described as dissolving away through weeping into ever-gushing fountains. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This principle was the discovery of Soren Hjorth, of Copenhagen, and is fully described in his British patent, No. 806 of 1855, for An Improved Magneto-Electric Battery. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• You were satisfied that he could not have been concealed in the room all the time, or in the corridor which you have just described as dimly lighted? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the lower floor, under the same assumed name, two women live, who are described as my sisters. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And she worked there one day, as we have described, to show how perfectly she scorned the threat. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His simplicity as to clothes has already been described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And this is what the arts of music and gymnastic, when present in such manner as we have described, will accomplish? Plato. The Republic.

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