Rated

Examples

• He rated him as a first-class hand; and yet he felt a secret dislike to him,--the native antipathy of bad to good. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Lord Molyneux shortly took his seat by my side, and I rated him about Mrs. Fitzroy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• There are four motors, two to each truck, each rated at 360 horse power. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The early arc lamps were rated to require 9 to 10 amperes of current, at 45 volts pressure each, receiving which they were estimated to give 2000 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was a smart young Frenchwoman waiting in Nugent's ante-room, and we rated him most unmercifully about her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• On this particular day I was soundly rated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Since the late recoinage of the gold, however, it is believed to have been a good deal under-rated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The proud lord of Holdernesse was not accustomed to be so rated in his own ducal hall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• When a house is rebuilt, improved, or enlarged, there is a new valuation, and the tax is rated accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Krupp armor plate, now rated as the best, is made under the patent to Schmitz and Ehrenzberger, No. 534,178, February 12, 1895. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Both these districts are, by the additional tax, rated at eleven hundred livres each. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The color and brilliancy are so superior that nearly all fine white Rivers are rated as Wesseltons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The valuation, indeed, according to which the houses are rated, though very unequal, is said to be always below the real value. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the duchy of Milan, the lands which the church possessed before 1575, are rated to the tax at a third only or their value. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was not vigorous enough in evil to be actively malignant--he merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I have agreed to sell Tom and Harry both; and I don't know why I am to be rated, as if I were a monster, for doing what every one does every day. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She rated Caroline soundly for being a member of the Established Church, and for having an uncle a clergyman. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Both low wines and proof spirits are, to prevent frauds, now rated according to what they gauge in the wash. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Several of those who, in the first poll-tax, were rated according to their supposed fortune were afterwards rated according to their rank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mr. Helstone could, on the spot, have rated them both. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This additional tax is rated upon all the different districts subject to the taille according to the old assessment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is in the mint, perhaps, rated too high for the value which it bears in the market of Bengal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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