Merited

Examples

• Then they stood on the bank shivering, and so chagrined and so grieved, that they merited holiest compassion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Her honest ostentatious nature made the sharing of a merited dishonor as bitter as it could be to any mortal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But he may have merited it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Excuse me, my Lady, Sir Leicester considerately interposes, but perhaps this may be doing an injury to the young woman which she has not merited. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His complexion was white with agitation, and he looked as if fearful of his reception, and conscious that he merited no kind one. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I should say she merited the distinction. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I merited severity; he looked indulgence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If it were a sceptre, he has merited it, and would become it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She wished him all the happiness which he merited out of his ill-gotten gains. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You may have done wrong with regard to Mr. Dixon, but this is a punishment beyond what you can have merited! Jane Austen. Emma.
• I will give the hoary bigot no advantage over me; and for Rebecca, she hath not merited at my hand that I should expose rank and honour for her sake. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• For, though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Andrea del Sarto glorified his princes in pictures that must save them for ever from the oblivion they merited, and they let him starve. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The busy little dressmaker quickly snipped the shirt away, and laid bare the results of as furious and sound a thrashing as even Mr Fledgeby merited. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A compliment, said the Marquis, to the grandeur of the family, merited by the manner in which the family has sustained its grandeur. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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