Employed

Examples

• No my dear lady, in regard to my being employed just now, looking out for work. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the hydraulic form of elevator, a motor worked by water is employed to lift the car, although steam power is also employed to raise the water. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Inasmuch as the nitrogen of liquid air evaporates first, and leaves nearly pure liquid oxygen, it may also be employed as a means for producing and applying oxygen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Each turbine in a penstock represents the power of 5,000 horses, and there are now ten or more employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The best faculties of man are employed for futurity: speaking is better than acting, writing is better than speaking. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When rotating at the rate of 788 revolutions in a minute, and lifting the water 19·4 feet, the greatest practical effect, compared with the power employed, was attained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• What could we not make of the world if we employed its genius! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But (with a smile) if Colonel Campbell should have employed a careless friend, and if it should prove to have an indifferent tonewhat shall I say? Jane Austen. Emma.
• Part of what had before been employed in other trades, is necessarily withdrawn from them, and turned into some of the new and more profitable ones. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They are called the two fluid batteries, because in place of a single acidulated bath in which the dissimilar metals were before placed, two different liquid solutions were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Better employed than to attend to it,' said Mr Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Her constant visitor was a most sanguine Bonapartist, who had formerly been employed by that emperor as ambassador to the court of Naples. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• On these trains I employed a boy who sold bread, tobacco, and stick candy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For ordinary draught purposes, as in the quotation from the _Iliad_ we have just made, oxen were employed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Another man who was with us at Menlo Park was Mr. Herman Claudius, an Austrian, who at one time was employed in connection with the State Telegraphs of his country. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She had already, alone as she was, accomplished some of these, and the work on which I found her employed, was her mother's shroud. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In the early history of steam navigation the side wheel steamer was the favorite, and was employed for ocean travel as well as for inland waters. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• At one time we employed several thousand men; and since then the works have been greatly expanded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If it is employed in procuring present enjoyment, it is a stock reserved for immediate consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Rifled cannon were first employed in actual service in Louis Napoleon’s Italian campaign of 1859, and were first introduced in the United States service by General James in 1861. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The quantity and the quality of the gas yielded by coal differ materially according to the kind employed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Leather is now very generally employed, though wood is often used in Holland and France and paper in China and Japan. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The profits of stock seem to be very little affected by the easiness or difficulty of learning the trade in which it is employed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His mind employed them without criticism. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Millions of people are employed in its production and manufacture. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The profits of stock vary with the price of the commodities in which it is employed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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