Justified

Examples

• His judgment, activity, and consummate bravery, justified their choice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Virtue is free, and as a man honours or dishonours her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser--God is justified. Plato. The Republic.
• If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Mr. Fairlie had simply justified my expectations--and there was an end of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The right of the crown to those countries described by the author is justified. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• She perceives that it is justified. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Julia might be justified in so doing by the hints of Mrs. Grant, inclined to credit what she wished, and Maria by the hints of Mr. Crawford himself. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I feel something very justified against thee too when thou talkest. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• To be justified in your eyes, he must do it in the most complete uncertainty of any provision. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• A fine blush having succeeded the previous paleness of her face, he was justified in his belief of her equal improvement in health and beauty. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• They will one day be Mr. Willoughby's, and If they were one day to be your own, Marianne, you would not be justified in what you have done. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Whatever we want to do is hallowed and justified, if it can be made to appear as a deduction from that sentence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mockery is justified in the case of Don Faustino,' the other said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Her appearance at luncheon justified the excuse. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• At the end of that time I had justified her generous faith in my manhood--I had, outwardly at least, recovered my self-control. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I believe we are justified in believing that he constitutes a danger to the Republic-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His city is equipped for war rather than for peace, and this would seem to be justified by the ordinary condition of Hellenic States. Plato. The Republic.
• Be candid as a convicted, justified, sanctified Methody at an experience meeting. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But Rosamond went home with a sense of justified repugnance towards her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Now, the question is, whether these men are justified by the fact; if not, in what situation do they place themselves? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The soundness of his reasoning is amply justified by the perfection of results obtained in the new type of storage battery bearing his name, and now to be described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In one point she was fully justified. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Lily knew people who lived like pigs, and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Such a supposition would be justified from Section 102. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But let me, it is my last entreaty, let me in the praises of his countrymen and the prosperity of England, find the choice of my youth justified. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Other similar suits followed, and in each one the decision justified Morse’s contention. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The apologists of business also justified a rupture with human decencies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• His certainty that Raffles, unless he were dead, would return to Middlemarch before long, had been justified. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typed by Agatha