Led

Examples

• We were then led up to the door, where we were directed to get down on our hands and knees with our backs toward the room we were to enter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Where Judy Trenor led, all the world would follow; and Lily had the doomed sense of the castaway who has signalled in vain to fleeing sails. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• One is the bicycle with the Palmer tire, and we see what that has led to. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He could see a trail through the grass where horses had been led to the stream to drink and there was the fresh manure of several horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Ezra Jennings stopped at the road which led to the village. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In 1749 he drew up proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania, which led, two years later, to the esta blishment of the first American Academy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You did not see it because I led you not in the beaten tracks, but through roundabout passages seldom used. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was in those days rather a rare accomplishment, and led to her engagement with the orthodox Miss Pinkerton. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Without any force at all, I found myself led and influenced by another's will, unconsulted, unpersuadedquietly overruled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He led them into a stone kitchen, fitted with coppers for dressing the prison food, and pointed to a door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The influence of analogy led him to invent 'parallels and conjugates' and to overlook facts. Plato. The Republic.
• This led his eager mind to delve into Italian literature, and shortly the young workman was not only draughtsman and artist, but something of a man of letters as well. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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