Undergone

Examples

• The behaviour of the men had undergone too I don't know what change. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is so easy to see the successful result, so difficult to appreciate the trials that have been undergone. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• And I beg, Pa,' said Lavinia, 'that you will not tell Bella what I have undergone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I was escorted as far as Bethlehem, where I rested a few days to recover from the fatigue I had undergone. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Her uncle, ignorant as the table supporting his coffee-cup of all his niece had undergone and was undergoing, scarcely believed his ears. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If you had been through all that Maurice has undergone, you might talk. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This tax was afterwards repealed, and in the room of it was established the window-tax, which has undergone two several alterations and augmentations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She was not quite so self-possessed as usual, I thought; and had evidently undergone anxiety and fatigue. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had undergone so much suffering! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The famous diamonds had undergone a famous seizure, it appears, about which Becky, of course, knew nothing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This calm was heaven to a poor wretch who had undergone so much mental suffering. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• After what she had undergone that morning, I was unwilling to tell her my suspicions. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The cobbler, the flute player, the soldier, have undergone the discipline of experience to acquire the skill they have. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Yet if we compare any but the most closely related formations, all the species will be found to have undergone some change. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Experience as the perception of the connection between something tried and something undergone in consequence is a process. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Yet, do I dare ask you to undertake my pilgrimage, to endure the hardships that I have undergone? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The trial that your daughter Bella has undergone, is, perhaps, without a parallel, and has been borne, I will say, Nobly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Robert Moore had undergone it once, and had never forgotten the circumstance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Similar emotion was undergone by my own father when promoted for his merits from his occupation as a waterman to a situation under Government. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Every line in his face deepened as he said it, and put in its affecting evidence of the suffering he had undergone. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• If you don't feel for yourself because you go out to work, you might at least feel for him, I should think, knowing what he has undergone so long. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It cannot be denied that such abrupt and great changes of structure are widely different from those which most species apparently have undergone. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The practicability of this plan has undergone much discussion; its friends and foes being equally confident in their opinions. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Your views may possibly have undergone some change, wrote Mr. Bulstrode; but, in that case also, it is desirable that you should lay them before her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I did what I was appointed to do, and I have undergone, within these four walls, what I was appointed to undergo. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If I shrunk into myself, hiding the disrespect I had undergone, it was because I honoured you so much, and so much wished that you should honour me! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Through the senses, or by apprenticeship in some form of doing, or by reason that has undergone a preliminary logical discipline? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She was sure that in my every purpose I should gain a firmer and a higher tendency, through the grief I had undergone. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• My very nature seemed now to have undergone a change. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You have undergone scrutiny. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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