Matured

Examples

• Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Inform me at the earliest practicable day of the time when you will embark, and such plans as may then be matured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And now, Adeimantus, is our State matured and perfected? Plato. The Republic.
• But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In the fall of 1892 I moved to Kokomo, and the following summer I had my plans sufficiently matured to begin the actual construction of a machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They are fine fellows--very fine fellows; with judgments matured by observation and reflection; and tastes refined by reading and study. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• That the thoughts were self-matured, that she had any recollections or speculations about her parents, he could not fancy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Time wore on, and spring matured. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her Extracts have been returned, and the expression of her matured views on the subject of the Moonstone has been forbidden. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At the time when all was matured for action, our readers may, perhaps, like to look behind the scenes, and see the final _coup d'etat_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In all such cases some fundamental difference in the growth or development of the parts, and generally in their matured structure, can be detected. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Nature cast her features in a fine mould; they have matured in their pure, accurate first lines, unaltered by the shocks of disease. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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