Grounded

Examples

• Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The military feelings, says James, are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The whole of his behaviour, replied Elinor, from the beginning to the end of the affair, has been grounded on selfishness. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• And I believe, upon a strict inquiry, those quarrels might be shown as ill-grounded among us as they are among that people. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I use this crude example because it shows that even the most genuine and deeply grounded demands are as yet unable to free themselves entirely from a superficial manner of thinking. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The ferry-boat came over, however, without his receiving any sign, and when it grounded his master took him by the collar and walked him into it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The boat, when it did come, grounded on a sand-bar a few miles below where we were in camp. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As her father's boat grounded, they became contemplative of the mud, and dispersed themselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Knowledge, grounded knowledge, is science; it represents objects which have been settled, ordered, disposed of rationally. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But this inference is chiefly grounded on analogy, and it is immaterial whether or not it be accepted. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was this terror, whether well or ill grounded, which rendered the repeal of the stamp act, among the merchants at least, a popular measure. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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