Esteemed

Examples

• The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Now this may be esteemed an objection to the present system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Her woman's instinct had told her that it was George who had interrupted the success of her first love-passage, and she esteemed him accordingly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Every one of these relations is esteemed some tie, and gives a title to a share of our affection. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She felt herself esteemed, needed almoSt. As they took coffee in the library, there was a soft, very soft knocking at the door. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Every succeeding year I have known this better, as I have esteemed you more and more. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His poor clerk and sexton delighted in him; the noble patron of his living esteemed him highly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The most esteemed of the painted caves is ascribed to the latter part of this the first of the three subdivisions of the newer Pal?olithic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I never loved, I never esteemed, I did not even know her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He will also be universally esteemed, considered, consulted, depended on--too much so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Barker, of Philadelphia, a big, good-natured philosopher, whose valuable advice Edison esteemed highly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was most highly esteemed by Mr. Darcy, a most intimate, confidential friend. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• If my late beloved husband had been so fortunate as to know his lordship, how highly he and the Count would have esteemed each other! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This, and my being esteemed a pretty good _rig-ite_, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported my consequence in the society. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Or, between himself, and—I may trust to your perfect understanding of my meaning, I am sure—and his highly esteemed brother-in-law. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It was not the Roman Republic whose heir the Church esteemed itself, but the Roman Emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I think I may take it upon me to say that Miss Helstone's frequent presence at Fieldhead will be esteemed a favour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This is the reason why children commonly bear their father's name, and are esteemed to be of nobler or baser birth, according to his family. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She esteemed him hideously plain, and used to profess herself frightened almost into hysterics at the sound of his step or voice. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Vanity is rather to be esteemed a social passion, and a bond of union among men. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This may at first sight be esteemed contrary to my hypothesis; since the relations of impressions and ideas are in both cases precisely the same. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He is highly esteemed by all the family at the park, and I never see him myself without taking pains to converse with him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The people I have longest and most esteemed are degraded by her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A man, whose limbs and shape promise strength and activity, is esteemed handsome, though condemned to perpetual imprisonment. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The trooper raising his head, she makes another poke at her esteemed grandfather, and having thus brought them together, stares rigidly at the fire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Far above their own titles, therefore, they esteemed and envied the title of C?sar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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