Furnished

Examples

• Yes, but such care could have been furnished by any one of us. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They furnished an operator, Edward Hadley. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was likewise furnished with a felt hat well garnished with turnpike tickets; and a carter's whip. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Quantity of Water Furnished by a River. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufacture to Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mrs. Rouncewell, who holds the light, is giddy with the swiftness of his eyes and hands as he starts up, furnished for his journey. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I went back at once to the question of the servants wanted for the furnished house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In the close, handsomely furnished room of a London hotel! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Our rooms were large, comfortably furnished, and even had their floors clothed with soft, cheerful-tinted carpets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Hence in the several fishes furnished with electric organs, these cannot be considered as homologous, but only as analogous in function. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The process will be slow, however, because the heat furnished by a Bunsen burner is not great, and the wood is transformed slowly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The Roman colonies furnished occasionally both the one and the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It will have been gathered that the funds for this great experiment were furnished largely by Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Martha painted flowers exquisitely and furnished half the charity bazaars in the county. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A certain amount of baggage was allowed per man, and saddle animals were to be furnished to commissioned officers and to all disabled persons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Very small, very low in the ceiling, very poorly furnished--but, oh, so neat! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The more pretentious and better furnished home of the superintendent of the estate, together with the storehouses, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He cannot possibly object to being furnished with the opportunity of writing to his comrade three thousand miles away, of drinking pure water, or taking a walk in the park. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am hardly furnished with counsel fitting the circumstances. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The room was furnished in red plush. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They turned the sharp corner at the bottom towards the temporary home which Clym had hired and furnished, about five miles to the eastward. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The constant replenishing of this large quantity is necessary to life, and a considerable amount of the necessary supply is furnished by foods, particularly the fruits and vegetables. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is mainly wood pulp that has enabled books and newspapers to be made so cheaply, for they are now furnished at a less price than the cost of the paper made in the old way from rags. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Fresh accessions of air are furnished to the apparatus through valve 10 as fast as the air is liquefied. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The little sitting-room which Fanny had furnished and fitted up for herself was a back parlour, looking into a garden. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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