Followed

Examples

• We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It would seem to be always the same question, for, it is always followed by a press of people towards the third cart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She usually followed him; but he heard her passing down the passage to her bedroom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• As our visitor concluded, Holmes sprang up without a word, handed me my hat, picked his own from the table, and followed Dr. Trevelyan to the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• At immense personal sacrifice I followed the dictates of my own ingenuity, my own humanity, my own caution, and took her identity instead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We followed it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Somewhat to her surprise, Sir Philip followed her advice to the letter, and actually, towards the close of September, arrived at the priory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Selden followed her, and still without speaking they seated themselves on a bench beside the fountain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• My eyes followed her hand, and I saw it too. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Obviously, as the cylinder was turned, the needle followed a spiral path whose pitch depended upon that of the feed screw. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Miss Verinder followed me out into the corridor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I have been followed from London Bridge Station, and I am sure that they are only waiting for the warrant to arrest me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Daylight developing soon followed, and the dark room, as far as the kodaker was concerned, took its proper place as a relic of the dark ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Who could know that Lydgate's prescription would not be better disobeyed than followed, since there was still no sleep? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The fifth corps reached the North Anna on the afternoon of the 23d, closely followed by the sixth corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But as he followed Madame Olenska into the hall he thought with a sudden hunger of being for a moment alone with her at the door of her carriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The enemy fell back to Sutherland Station on the South Side Road and were followed by Miles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It probably did much to disorganize social life and prepare the way for the troubles that followed the accession of Commodus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Merely that I consider you a dead bore, I added, as I stepped into the hackney coach and was followed by Julia. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Then he closed the panel behind him and followed us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You followed her? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They are not examples to be followed by us; for the use of language ought in every generation to become clearer and clearer. Plato. The Republic.
• Other vengeance than mine had followed that fated man from the theatre to his own door--from his own door to his refuge in Paris. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• At this dreadful reflection, Mrs. Nupkins wept mental anguish, and Miss Nupkins followed on the same side. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• My eye had been caught by a gun with a brass-bound stock over the chimney-piece, and his eye had followed mine. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The servant who had followed me staggered back shuddering, and dropped to his knees. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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