Prescribed

Examples

• It was six o'clock in the morning before the strong opiate which Dr. Bain had prescribed for me produced any effect. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To careful reasoning of this kind he replies by calling himself Pegasus, and every form of prescribed work 'harness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I did not stay for the conclusion of the performance; but while I did stay, there was not a bull killed in the prescribed way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For there is radical difference between even the most general method and a prescribed rule. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nugent prescribed for her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The auspicious event is always commemorated according to certain forms settled and prescribed by Mr. Bagnet some years since. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Often he would be without staff officers, and when he was accompanied by them there was no prescribed order in which they followed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The cures he prescribed were vigorous government interference, strict magisterial vigilance; when necessary, prompt military coercion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This is our friend's consulting-room (or would be, if he ever prescribed), his sanctum, his studio, said my guardian to us. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A warm climate may be prescribed for her. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Or to relieve persons of anxiety and trouble in this respect, ingenious devices have been contrived which automatically reduce the speed when the prescribed limit has been exceeded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He may pass on to a worse stage; but I should not wonder if he got better in a few days, by adhering to the treatment I have prescribed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She might already have given him more than Lydgate had prescribed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• All was ready by the time I had prescribed; and on the 29th Hancock and Sheridan were brought back near the James River with their troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It ought to be prescribed, tabooed from utterance, for many years, till we get a new, better idea. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Limewater prescribed by physicians in cases of illness is a well-known base. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I then bound myself once more to the prescribed conditions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This mode of address was now prescribed by decree. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• In the course of the morning Dr. Bain prescribed for her, and promised to bring me a letter for her admittance into St. George's Hospital. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In a word, he was so horribly bored by existing circumstances, that he forgot to go in for boredom in the manner prescribed by the authorities. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Fanny is very ill, and her physician has prescribed bleeding, without loss of time. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Nathan Ben Israel received his suffering countryman with that kindness which the law prescribed, and which the Jews practised to each other. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Courage may be defined as a sort of salvation--the never-failing salvation of the opinions which law and education have prescribed concerning dangers. Plato. The Republic.
• The health is improved when proper glasses are prescribed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The following formula, prescribed by the late Dr. Tilbury Fox, is a very soothing application, and is a great favorite with ladies who have flushed faces: =Calamine Face Lotion. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• And there should also be toils and pains and conflicts prescribed for them, in which they will be made to give further proof of the same qualities. Plato. The Republic.
• They came, consulted, prescribed, vanished. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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