Involved

Examples

• To talk about training a power, mental or physical, in general, apart from the subject matter involved in its exercise, is nonsense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Subsequent changes involved the rotating of the cylinder instead of the wheels and many modifications in the form of the wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This alone involved an incalculable setback to the march of scientific thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Some knowledge of anatomy was involved in the removal of the viscera, and much more in a particular method they followed in removing the brain. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If the distance is short, so that few air particles are involved, the time required for transmission is very brief, and the sound is heard at practically the instant it is made. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I have felt uneasy for the consequences of his being so involved, but I have kept these secrets until now, when I trust them to your honour. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And this was the singular case of the Grecian Interpreter, the explanation of which is still involved in some mystery. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I see three very serious questions involved in the Colonel's birthday-gift to my cousin Rachel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value have been covered in the prior discussion of aims and interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• All were involved, I replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The drill of the student involved chiefly the acquisition of the special signals employed in railway work, including the numerals and abbreviations applied to save time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was a curious example of establishing standard practice while changing with kaleidoscopic rapidity all the elements involved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There may have intervened a considerable period of t ime free from conscious effort on the special question involved in the discovery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The habits of mind involved in habits of the eye and hand supply the latter with their significance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And to what degree was her dread of a catastrophe intensified by the sense of being fatally involved in it? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We may apply the results of our discussion to a consideration of the criteria involved in a correct establishing of aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Not that this matter is quite certain either; for Worcester might have, by this time, completely involved his father's estate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Consider what is involved by your theory. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I saw such a perfect labyrinth of troubles involved in this proceeding that I determined to feel my ground, as it were. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now you go into the parlor, and I'll send 'em down to you, with which somewhat involved reply Hannah vanished, chuckling ecstatically. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This original method of reducing the amount of physical labor involved in watch-winding brings to mind another instance of shrewdness mentioned by Edison, with regard to his newsboy days. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A meritorious exception, to the rule of the last section, is involved in the adjudicated validity of the Edison incandescent-light patent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It involved mechanical complications that seemed to be insurmountable, and up to the time Edison invented his perforating machine no really good method was available. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Whether we wish it or not we are involved in the world's problems, and all the winds of heaven blow through our land. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A mental problem was involved here. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The estate at Delaford was never reckoned more than two thousand a year, and his brother left everything sadly involved. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• To produce such a house involved the overcoming of many engineering and other technical difficulties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In addition to the immense amount of money involved, this specialized industry required an enormous amount of experiment, as it called for the development of an entirely new art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Do you think for one moment of the destruction of property involved in it? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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