Directed

Examples

• We were then led up to the door, where we were directed to get down on our hands and knees with our backs toward the room we were to enter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• On the 12th of February I ordered Thomas to take Dalton and hold it, if possible; and I directed him to move without delay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• We separate from Butler so that he cannot be directed how to co-operate. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All their efforts had been directed to make her mother's room comfortable. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Therefore the young man, slightly too dictatorial, directed the guests to their places. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This arrangement was generally satisfactory, but the resistance-boxes scattered about the platform and foot-rests being in the way, Edison directed that some No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A stream of this liquid has been directed upon a circuit of 110,000 volts without the least harm to the operator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Pasteur's attention was next directed to the wine industry, which then had an annual value to France of 500,000,000 francs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Warren was ordered to attack him vigorously in flank, while Wright was directed to move out and get on his front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Pretschi, have also successfully directed their attention to engraving the images of the camera, which has now obtained a high degree of perfection. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Then he directed a look, half exasperated and half jeering, at his wife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• All things are said to be wisely directed, and for the best interest of all concerned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• This I expected him to do; as shown further on, he was directed by Johnston to make this very move. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I now directed Thomas to order the charge at once (*16). Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That being the terminus of his railroad communications, it is probable he was directed to remain there awaiting orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I mount to the cell, with a fellow-citizen who is one of the Jury, directed by a gaoler. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He was directed to take with him another division of his corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was now in the schoolroom; Adele was drawing; I bent over her and directed her pencil. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A few incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country; but I often wandered wide from my path. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It directed the latter to be ready to move and to crush Sheridan as soon as he, Longstreet, arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My father directed our studies, and my mother partook of our enjoyments. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And in such noting of the meaning of the actions of others and of his own state, he is socially directed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As by a fascination, every eye was now directed to the glaring greenish-gray eye of Simon. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• On the 15th, he was directed to start the expedition as soon after the 20th as he could get it off. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When we arrived at the house, I was directed to Miss Dartle in the garden, and left to make my presence known to her myself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Summoning the cab of most promising appearance, he directed the driver to repair to Montague Place, Russell Square. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But he became less confident, on looking, and directed the bearers to 'bring him to the nearest doctor's shop. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There, at the very place above the library to which my course was directed--there I saw a gleam of light! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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