Selected

Examples

• The steel for the manufacture of dies is carefully selected, forged at a high heat into the rough die, softened by careful annealing, and then handed over to the engraver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The gentleman in the bag wig laid bundles of papers on his lordship's table, and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The engineering establishment of Mr. Hall, at Dartford, in Kent, was selected as best adapted for the purpose of making the machinery and for carrying the plans into operation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• During the night, however, Beauregard fell back to the line which had been already selected, and commenced fortifying it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As is the custom upon Barsoom there were thirty-one, supposedly selected by lot from men of the noble class, for nobles were on trial. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I selected General Weitzel, of the Army of the James, to go with the expedition, but gave instructions through General Butler. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In two's the men would approach each animal selected, avoiding as far as possible its heels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Gradually certain stimuli are selected because of their relevancy, and others are degraded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There was pastry upon a dish; he selected an apricot puff and a damson tart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Well, out of our eight, three were selected to attend to all business connected with the expedition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Presently he selected one of their number whom he led before the throne of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In that case the most natural route to take was the one which General Taylor selected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You, as legislator, have already selected the men; and now you shall select the women. Plato. The Republic.
• But it is a place the General will have selected. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Didst not note how carefully he selected the plumpest and tenderest of the lot? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We selected a stateroom forward of the wheel, on the starboard side, below decks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Smith's was selected) to support Osterhaus, and to move to the left and flank the enemy out of his position. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He sent ambassadors to Pekin, and a suitable princess was selected, a girl of seventeen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Smith was selected for the delicate duty of manning the boats and surprising the enemy's pickets on the south bank of the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The district selected for lighting was the area--nearly a square mile in extent--included between Wall, Nassau, Spruce, and Ferry Streets, Peck Slip and the East River in New York City. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He selected Clarksville for his headquarters, no doubt because he regarded it as the post of danger, it being nearer the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For the evening reading before prayers, he selected the twenty-first chapter of Revelation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• From the tabulated results of hundreds of tests there were selected three that showed the best results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This his selected task was exchanged for the far different one of encountering the ruin caused by the convulsions of physical nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I selected a certain horse because I thought I saw him shy, and I thought that a horse that had spirit enough to shy was not to be despised. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I had not been in command long before I selected Hamburg as the place to put the Army of the Ohio when it arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Crops must be selected or developed that will fit the environment, and there is ample field for investigation in the improvement and development of crops suitable to dry lands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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