Exceeded

Examples

• Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And to her the consciousness of having exceeded in words was peculiarly mortifying. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• By the 15th of the same prince, this liberty was extended till the price of wheat exceeded 48s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In bigness these greater _Dinosaurs_ have never been exceeded, although the sea can still show in the whales creatures as great. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The paymaster was detained in Austin so long that, if we had waited for him, we would have exceeded our leave. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious speculation, exceeded even his most sanguine hopes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Hardly any other Greek cities ever exceeded 50,000. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The new visitor was very talkative, and the number of his anecdotes was only to be exceeded by the extent of his politeness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A city which includes all this will have far exceeded the limit of four or five, and yet not be very large. Plato. The Republic.
• That gentleman, whose rent never exceeded ?500 a-year, carried, in 1745, 800 of his own people into the rebellion with him. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded what it had ever been before, and it has continued to advance ever since. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Or to relieve persons of anxiety and trouble in this respect, ingenious devices have been contrived which automatically reduce the speed when the prescribed limit has been exceeded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It so far exceeded the required conditions as to speed, that, when unattached to any carriages, it ran at the rate of 30 miles an hour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The surprise of Mr. Tupman at this summary proceeding, great as it was, was immeasurably exceeded by the astonishment of the doctor. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Rose had been in high spirits, too, and they had walked on, in merry conversation, until they had far exceeded their ordinary bounds. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Her agitation and alarm exceeded all that was endured by the rest, by the right of a disposition which not even innocence could keep from suffering. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In this, I respectfully contend, I have in no respect exceeded the fair license due to the author of a fictitious composition. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Your skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Miss Bingley was then sorry that she had proposed the delay, for her jealousy and dislike of one sister much exceeded her affection for the other. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Her courage and patient firmness exceeded all I had imagined possible, even in a man. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I cannot say much in praise of such a life; and its pains far exceeded its pleasures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If the expense of his house and person either equalled or exceeded his revenue, as it did very frequently, he had no stock to employ in this manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The establishment was both a pensionnat and an externat: the externes or day-pupils exceeded one hundred in number; the boarders were about a score. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But Mr. Lennox almost exceeded Margaret in his appreciation of the character of Milton and its inhabitants. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The brain capacity of the woman in the Cro-Magnon cave exceeded that of the average male to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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