Secured

Examples

• The drawing benches resemble long tables, with a bench on either side, at one end of which is an iron box secured to the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It secured further 40 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At last it was secured by stratagem, in the year eight hundred and something. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I sent the cavalry higher up the stream and they secured a crossing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Edison then went to Toledo and secured a position at Fort Wayne, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, now leased to the Pennsylvania system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Next came two Dutch prints which Mr. Toller had been eager for, and after he had secured them he went away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But no sooner was this promotion secured than he started again on his wanderings southward, while his friend Adams went North, neither having any difficulty in making the trip. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He made a raid on a neighboring baron and completed his outfit with the booty secured. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Perfect and absolute control of heat seems to be secured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Western Union Telegraph Company secured a majority of its stock, and Gen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The two towers at the axis supporting the wheel were 140 feet high, and the motive power was secured from a 1,000 horse-power steam engine under the wheel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We found the hotel and secured rooms, and were happy to know that the Prince of Wales had stopped there once. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He secured not only Lady Jane's kindness, but her sincere regard, by the feelings which he manifested, and which he could not show to his own wife. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Every possibility of good was before me, and the first of blessings secured, in obtaining her promises of faith and correspondence. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But the vow had been part of the bargain by which he secured the support of Pope Innocent III in his election as emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He would be a valuable acquisition with such an assistant as Nancy, and must (thus Fagin argued) be secured without delay. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Boulton was not willing to put money into the building of a great factory until he was sure that the engines would be secured to the firm. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If we took the other route, Brandy Station could be used as a base of supplies until another was secured on the York or James rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In preparing a shoe for the machine, an inner sole is placed on the last, the upper is then lasted and its edges secured to the inner sole. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I generally rested during the day, and travelled only when I was secured by night from the view of man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Johnson and Hammer put into practice many of the ideas now standard in the art, and secured much useful data for the work in New York, of which the story has just been told. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At least, thought the Captain, there will be a retreat secured for her in case the worst should ensue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• At the next haul the weight was not heavy, and it was discovered that they had only secured a coil of the rope detached from the bucket. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Her mother's fortune is secured to her, the documents of which I will commit to your keeping. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He secured possession of a port, Amphipolis, and certain gold mines adjacent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Without stopping for any food he secured the doors and went upstairs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Having placed our studding in position and secured them by a plate running around the top we are ready for the rafters. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Neither the Danish kingdom (which at that time included Norway and Iceland) nor the Swedes secured very much in the scramble. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The animals are driven into a catching pen at 1, where they are strung up by one leg, and secured to a traveling pulley on an overhead rail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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