Presented

Examples

• We can here consider only a few cases; of these, some of the most difficult to explain are presented by fish. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• So, I presented Joe to Herbert, who held out his hand; but Joe backed from it, and held on by the bird's-nest. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• With graceful modesty each gentleman retired a step from the presented weapon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mrs. Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish countenance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The yard presented none of that bustle and activity which are the usual characteristics of a large coach inn. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• So far as I could understand, they rarely presented themselves at all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They had not been at home many hours, when he presented himself. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Xodar and the green Jeddak were formally presented to each other. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Mr. Tupman immediately presented himself, with a look of very considerable surprise. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He had determined to wait till the chance presented itself naturally; and here it was, and here he was on the doorstep. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In September of the same year Eugèn e Bouvard had presented new tables of that planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Mr. Darnay presented himself while they were sitting under the plane-tree, but he was only One. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It very seldom happens that anybody--of any pretensions--any pretensions--comes here without being presented to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This letter could not be meant for me, to whom his lordship was only presented yesterday. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You have all presented your bouquets? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Know that a petition was presented to the King and Queen. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I had previously been presented by my aunt, and had been courteously received. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Beneath the brilliant light of Mars' two glorious moons the whole scene presented itself in vivid distinctness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Suppose two objects to be presented to me, which are not connected by any kind of relation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• My left arm, though it presented no bad symptoms, took, in the natural course, so long to heal that I was still unable to get a coat on. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• If, when the bill becomes due, the acceptor does not pay it as soon as it is presented, he becomes from that moment a bankrupt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• However that might have been, nobody could have mistaken him for anything like handsome at the moment she presented him to us. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When the suggestions of hope, however, which must follow here, presented themselves, she could not presume to indulge them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• An illustration of the next latest type of this machine is presented in Fig. 2. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We were soon joined by my own faithful Frederick's brother, the honourable George Lamb, to whom I was presented by Livius. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He presented Ada, in form. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I have not yet had the pleasure of a personal introduction to Mrs Merdle, but I suppose I shall be presented to her at Rome. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If I had presented a pistol at his head, this abandoned wretch could hardly have exhibited greater consternation. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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