Experienced

Examples

• The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The crusaders beleaguered Prague, but failed to take it, and they experienced a series of reverses that ended in their retreat from Bohemia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He inhaled it, and experienced a sense of exhilaration. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Under date of February 12, he writes: This day has been memorable in the annals of Valdivia for the most severe earthquake experienced by the oldes t inhabitant. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I said to Miss Mills that this was very true, and who should know it better than I, who loved Dora with a love that never mortal had experienced yet? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There would be no shameful thing she had not experienced. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• These machines were also upon a solid foundation, and no trouble was experienced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This inconvenience was experienced in the early progress of Steam Navigation, and many attempts were made to overcome it, by substituting a different kind of propeller. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I took off my pink dress and lace mantle with happier feelings than I had experienced in putting them on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In the subordination of particulars to general principles he experienced a satisfaction akin to the sen se of beauty or the joy of artistic production. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We procured the services of a gentleman experienced in the nomenclature of the American bar, and moved upon the works of one of these impostors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The pictures drawn in these books were so vivid, that we seemed to have experienced the results depicted by them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That's the stretcher, or the shutter, whichever of the two they are carrying,' said Miss Abbey, with experienced ear. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The expression of your sentiments on this subject, my dear Victor, gives me more pleasure than I have for some time experienced. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I am glad that I have loved, and have experienced sympathetic joy and sorrow with my fellow-creatures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Blent with torment, I experienced rapture. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It takes him a long time to say this, and few but an experienced and attentive listener could hear, or, hearing, understand him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They experienced a violent revulsion towards that policy of isolation that had broken down in 1917. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I experienced a happy feeling--a glad emotion which went warm to my heart, and ran lively through all my veins. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The fright and horror which I experienced awoke me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Shall I assume that we ourselves are able and experienced judges and have before now met with such a person? Plato. The Republic.
• Our experienced officer looked equally surprised and offended when he heard that reply. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I experienced a shock of horror, then a strong thrill of grief, then a desire--a necessity to see her; and I asked in what room she lay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was the bitterest disappointment we had yet experienced. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Clarke on the question of see-sawing, or hunting, as it was afterward termed: In the Holborn Viaduct station the difficulty of 'hunting' was not experienced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These outlaws have indeed a daring captain; but without machines, scaling ladders, and experienced leaders, my castle may defy them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Edited by Carlos