Encouraged

Examples

• Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I encouraged Doctor Manette in this idea, because I felt that it might one day be consolatory to her. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• General Taylor encouraged officers to accompany these expeditions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He would save himself from witnessing again such permitted, encouraged attentions. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He professed himself more relieved and encouraged than he really was, and approached his second and last point. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• You would not have encouraged me, then, if you had understood me? Jane Austen. Emma.
• The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The father was a man of sound judgment who encouraged sensible conversation in his home. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• That encouraged Margaret to speak. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I abetted and encouraged him in his criminal design. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• This encouraged Wildeve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His father, by-the-way, always encouraged these literary tastes, and paid him a small sum for each new book mastered. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When he asked what should such fellows as he do crawling between earth and heaven, he was encouraged with loud cries of Hear, hear! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The hopes I have been encouraged to form that you come from that lady, do not deceive me, I trust. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I thought that you were aware of the progress of my attachment, Rebecca continued: I knew that Mrs. Bute Crawley confirmed and encouraged it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Women and children shrieked, and men encouraged each other with noisy shouts and cheers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Now, though I have not encouraged him yet, I cannot conscientiously refuse him a chance any longer. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Yet it was scarcely credible that things had come to such a head as to indicate that Eustacia systematically encouraged him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She must have encouraged him, I am sure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Encouraged by this, a fifth crusade (1431) crossed the frontier under Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The retreating column of Hill meeting reinforcements that had not yet been engaged, became encouraged and returned with them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is of importance that the landlord should be encouraged to cultivate a part of his own land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I thought perhaps they might not object to have her as a playmate, and therefore encouraged the attempt. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Editor: Patrick