Framed

Examples

• An amulet was indeed made, a spell framed which rendered enmity impossible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Who was better framed than this highly-gifted youth to love and be beloved, and to reap unalienable joy from an unblamed passion? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The final end of life is fixed; given a state framed with this end in view, not even minor details are to be altered. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You were thinking that if the portrait were framed it would just cover that bare space and correspond with Gordon's picture over there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Will he not think that heaven and the things in heaven are framed by the Creator of them in the most perfect manner? Plato. The Republic.
• And yet, he said to himself, I feel myself ill framed for the part which I am playing. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I only know that there are some three principles of rhythm out of which metrical systems are framed, just as in sounds there are four notes (i. Plato. The Republic.
• The next thing wanted was to get the picture framed; and here were a few difficulties. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I then framed and fixed a resolution. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Uncouth and clumsy doors, windows and blinds, were framed on the simplest utilitarian basis, and a scanty supply of rude hand-made furniture imperfectly filled the simple wants of the home. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She framed her enquiries with Greek subtlety; she formed her conclusions with the decision and firmness peculiar to her disposition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And they are rightly called so, because we are framed by nature to desire both what is beneficial and what is necessary, and cannot help it. Plato. The Republic.
• Terror--not beauty--was what sprang first to the eye as our fair visitor stood framed for an instant in the open door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the eastern authors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But why the men and women who framed the report made this particular recommendation is an interesting question. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The records are tested by about half a hundred women, each of whom has a little compartment or booth framed in by glass partitions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was at this time, and under these circumstances, that I framed an aphorism which has already become celebrated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But this codicil is framed so as to make everybody believe that she did. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Both were heavier-built men than the spare-framed Greeks, but were pretty equally matched in point of weight and science. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Meanwhile he framed his plan of management. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A fierce bull-dog face was framed in a tangle of hair and beard, and two bold, dark eyes gleamed behind the cover of thick, tufted, overhung eyebrows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Peeping about here and there, she came upon a print, a graceful head of a pretty woman, elegantly framed, hanging in the corner by the easy chair. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The Constitution was not framed with a view to any such rebellion as that of 1861-5. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He was never tired of looking at it, and even held a council with Eva on the expediency of getting it framed, to hang up in his room. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He will sacrifice all to his long-framed resolves, she said: natural affection and feelings more potent still. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Citizens, we shall say to them in our tale, you are brothers, yet God has framed you differently. Plato. The Republic.
• It was a double house, with long, narrow, heavily-framed windows. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Assuredly a most benignant power built up the majestic fabric we inhabit, and framed the laws by which it endures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Editor: Stu