Practised

Examples

• Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This was the reason why Asclepius and his sons practised no such art. Plato. The Republic.
• On returning from Mrs. Vesey's, I instructed Marian to write (observing the same caution which I practised myself) to Mrs. Michelson. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A quick glance of her practised eye showed her, even through the deep dark shadow, the sculls in a rack against the red-brick garden-wall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She brought his cigar and lighted it for him; she knew the effect of that manoeuvre, having practised it in former days upon Rawdon Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He had invented a shorthand of his own, which he taught me, but, not having practised it, I have now forgotten it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The wild look of anguish and utter despair that the woman cast on him might have disturbed one less practised; but he was used to it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Of the former methods, when gold was found loose in sand or gravel, washing was the earliest and most universally practised, and was called panning. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They have occasionally been practised in most other countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Presently her brow cleared; and then even my ear, less practised, caught the iron clash of a gate swung to, steps on gravellastly the door-bell. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is practised very extensively, Karkov said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• At Crawley's charming little reunions of an evening this fatal amusement commonly was practised--much to good-natured little Mrs. Crawley's annoyance. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their connivance. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She did most heartily grieve over the idleness of her childhoodand sat down and practised vigorously an hour and a half. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The hurried, agitated peal seemed more urgent than if the summons had been steadily given by a practised hand. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Practised eyes knew that it did not go as heavily as it would if both workmen had been coming up, and that only one was returning. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• This method of hunting is practised by the Masai to-day, and could only have been worked out by a people in a land where lions were abundant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was such an entirely new view of the Terpsichorean art as socially practised, that Mrs Lammle looked at her young friend in some astonishment. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I wore a real one and felt like a gunman until I practised firing it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Frauds are more easily practised, and occasion a greater loss in the most precious metal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This knowledge before was either preserved in secrecy, or accidentally or empirically practised, or unknown. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Miss Ginevra's school-studies were little better than nominal; there were but three things she practised in earnest, viz. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This thy daughter hath practised the art of healing, hath she not? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They practised farming in a scientific way, and had good systems of irrigation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Can this be a mere masquerade-attitude for effect, practised in an empty room? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Between that time and 1770 he practised melting small pieces of blistered steel (iron bars which had been carbonised by smelting in charcoal) in closed clay crucibles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The clergy were to be freed from lay jurisdiction and from taxation, and exemplary cruelties were to be practised upon the heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• North of the Mason and Dixon line farming was practised mainly upon British or Central European lines by free white cultivators. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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