Managed

Examples

• We had already managed to get pretty high vacua, and we thought, maybe, the filament would be stable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I am sure I managed very well before we were married. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mrs. Godfrey managed our little treaty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I scarcely knew how to accost her; she was not to be managed like another child. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Remember, I managed the matter of my own free will before. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She had great pleasure in feeling her usefulness, but could not conceive how they would have managed without her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• If you'd even managed to have them asked once on the Sabrina--especially when royalties were coming! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• With this boy, properly managed, my dears, I could do what I couldn't with twenty of them. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He had managed for me, in my absence, with the soundest judgement; and my worldly affairs were prospering. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The torsion of the shaft was so great that one governor still managed to get ahead of the others. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He said a few words to each candidate as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in them which would disqualify them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Wrights adopted this type, believing that it was the strongest form, and could be made more compact and be more easily managed than the single plane, or the many-winged type. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They could not rise higher on account of their weight, so we managed to escape death. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Why, that ar fellow managed his master's whole farm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Because, said she, stopping to put the little girl, who had managed to get herself upside down, right end up again, because I do. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I managed to work my passage to Athens, and arrived there without even the traditional penny. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A pretty way you have managed the affair, said George, looking savagely at William Dobbin. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It had been so managed as to make a remand necessary in a town where I was a perfect stranger, and where I could not hope to get my liberty on bail. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He railed at us for our pains, terming us des ménagères avares; but we let him talk, and managed the economy of the repast our own way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That destined for performing the same office with regard to the freeman is managed by the freeman himself. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Everything was managed like a factory. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Wery glad to see you, Sammy,' said the elder Mr. Weller, 'though how you've managed to get over your mother-in-law, is a mystery to me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Fortunately I have always managed to beat them off. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I see, now, that I might have managed it better. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I managed to say that I would work the apparatus, and Mr. Adams would make the explanations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She managed Miss Halcombe with unquestionable care and discretion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She had managed to get his address, so that she could appeal to him in time of distress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Of course, at that time, there was no canal, and no Suez; but I managed somehow to get across the isthmus to Alexandria. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This was his answer,-- If you are but half as lovely as you think yourself, you must be well worth knowing; but how is that to be managed? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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