Exist

Examples

• I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. Plato. The Republic.
• The most friendly relations seemed to exist between the pickets of the two armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It has required my utmost exertions to exist without making the least progress in our business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist even at much more considerable heights. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She did not exist: she would not be born till to-morrow, some time after eight o'clock a. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Then he gave me such a detail of misfortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Those few hundreds of French gentlefolk fell into a pit that most of them had been well content should exist for others. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You are no child that one should not speak of what exists; but I only uttered the word--the thing, I assure you, is alien to my whole life and views. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My friend, the Golden Age still exists in Melnos, and if you come with me, you will dwell in Arcady. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• When we are absent from it, we say it still exists, but that we do not feel, we do not see it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The ether must be distinguished from the air, for science means by it a medium which exists everywhere and is to be regarded as permeating all space and all matter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If it actually exists why should I not smell it as well as another? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I wished to see Jane Eyre, and I fancy a likeness where none exists: besides, in eight years she must be so changed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He did not see her--he never did see her; he hardly knew that such a person existed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was strange how inviolable was the intimacy which existed between him and Hermione. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You supposed more than really existed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Had _Chambers's Journal_ existed in those days, it would certainly have formed Miss Helstone's and Farren's favourite periodical. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But a human impulse is more important than any existing theory. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Bare logic, however important in arranging and criticizing existing subject matter, cannot spin new subject matter out of itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The latter represents the possibilities of the former; not its existing state. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He opposed the existing state of affairs on the ground that it formed neither the citizen nor the man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This led him to review the existing state of affairs (1780) and to compare it with the state of affairs during the decline of imperial Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Richard