Ruled

Examples

• After his downfall, the Republic still ruled unassailable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And he did not believe in the extreme discretion that then ruled Roman strategy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If right principles ruled through the kingdom, there would be no necessity for me to change its state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The populations over which Charles Martel and King Pepin ruled were at very different levels of civilization in different districts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yes, there's some house or other that might have had a man for a master--such as he is--that's now ruled by a woman alone. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We are ruled by custom upon Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Let us see, said Caleb, taking up a pen, examining it carefully and handing it, well dipped, to Fred with a sheet of ruled paper. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Private enterprise ruled in many matters of common concern, because political corruption made collective enterprise impossible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Men who had been ruled off the turf everywhere else were racing in Italy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Cuff, the unquestioned king of the school, ruled over his subjects, and bullied them, with splendid superiority. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Aristotle was also able to say that while the king ruled for the good of the state, the tyrant ruled for his own good. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At this period China ruled eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Nepal, Burmah, and Annam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1785 he brought his case again into court, and this time Lord Loughborough ruled that his patent was valid. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He ruled in Rome like an independent king, organizing armies, making treaties. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The little state was ruled by a family, the Sakya clan, of which this man, Siddhattha Gautama, was a member. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This, however, I promise you: be ruled by me, and you shall see Moore yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The entirely free Venetian republic ruled an empire of dependent islands and trading ports, rather after the fashion of the Athenian republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now the worst part of the punishment is that he who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself. Plato. The Republic.
• May He not have over-ruled their designs, and founded for us a nation by them? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Quietly, quietly, the ruled and cross-ruled countenance on which they were traced, became fair and blank. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In the village of Little Marlow an old woman ruled the community. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Here, as at Paris, Becky was a boarding-house queen, and ruled in select pensions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In America, both North and South, on the other hand, the revolution had triumphed and nineteenth-century liberalism ruled unchallenged. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Latin and Greek Churches were declared to be reunited, and Latin emperors ruled as conquerors in Constantinople from 1204 to 1261. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Smaller or greater adventurers seized a castle or a countryside and ruled an uncertain area. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This halftone screen is a glass plate ruled with lines at right angles ranging, for different purposes, from 60 to 200 lines to the inch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Probably the Etruscans ruled over a subjugated Italian population, so reversing the state of affairs in Greece, in which the Aryans were uppermost. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In Rajputana also the rule of Islam was replaced by Brahminism, and at Bhurtpur and Jaipur there ruled powerful Rajput princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Ronald