Entered
['entə(r)d]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Enter
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Examples
- No bad news, Colonel, I hope; said Mrs. Jennings, as soon as he entered the room. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Some weeks of spare time were at my disposal, before I entered on my functions by establishing myself in the suburbs of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He entered the front room not without blushing; for he, like many, had felt the power of this girl's face and form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We entered the playground enclosure, and walked by the schoolroom window to get round to the door, which was situated at the back of the building. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I was admiring the boy's handsome dark eyes, when the mother, young Mrs. Leigh, entered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Little Dorrit opened the door from without, and they both entered. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Charlotte (the name of my false young friend) had gone down before me, and I heard this aunt speaking to her about me as I entered. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I entered the room again immediately. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Talk of the devil, said Alvanly, as Julia and Sophia entered the room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And when Clayton had entered, and closed the door behind him: Well? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When the maid entered, about seven, there the unfortunate fellow was hanging in the middle of the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He filed an application for a patent and entered into a conspiracy to 'swear back' of the date of my invention, so as to deprive me of it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Into such an assembly of the free and easy our traveller entered. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I asked, as my friend entered the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The system thus entered on, I pursued during the whole season of probation; and with the best success. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I can honestly say it--in mercy to HER, I turned away without a word, and opened the door by which I had entered the room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This temper now entered like a virus into the firm, and there were cruel eruptions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was never vain of music; and, at that early age, so much envy never entered my head. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I could not refuse her requeSt. Her features bore the fixed rigidity of death when I entered her room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Lord Lowther now entered the room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I remember that there was a woman outside as I entered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Ten of us can take the throne, for I had seen that Issus' guards had for the most part entered the fray within the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The lady now entered the room, and welcomed me with an appearance of real pleasure. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- As they were sitting down, a light tap sounded at the door, and Ruth entered. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He will kill me, of course, said I to myself, as he entered the room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- With Peter the Great (1682-1725) the empire of Muscovy broke away from her Tartar traditions and entered the sphere of French attraction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As a matter of fact, he could not, said Soames, for I entered by the side door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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