Believed

Examples

• It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I believed all I heard. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I could not have believed it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I am quite ready to go in for it, to the same extent as if I believed it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Faust was dissatisfied with Gutenberg, and took occasion to tell Sch?ffer one evening that he believed the firm would do better without the master. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She has never believed any ill of him, never. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mamma thought the dear too young to be taught to conquer his prejudices, but Papa believed that it never was too soon to learn obedience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Those who had never been to Italy believed it; so did some who had. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The opportunity frequently occurred for me to defend General Buell against what I believed to be most unjust charges. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The captain in the army being dead, she believed herself safe; but a train of circumstances with which I need not trouble you led to discovery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Upon her disposition he believed kindness might be the best way of working. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• And now, if she was to be believed, no such event as her marriage was to take place at all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She believed it would be wiser for her to say and know at once, all that she meant to say and know. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He believed without effort in the peculiar work of grace within him, and in the signs that God intended him for special instrumentality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The Admiral, he believed, had interest. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• All buttoned-up men are believed in. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And then he catched hold of us, and kep on a talking to her, and answering of her, till I half believed I see her myself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I never have, my dear, since I believed you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Who would have believed in the mammoth, had not the huge beast been reconstructed by Cuvier? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She believed he was very clever, and understood every thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Sooner or later they believed that I should come back to my rooms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He believed, however, that the day-spring of science was opening, and he seemed to have caught some reflection of its coming light. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Its origin, like the telescope, is hidden in the dim distance of the past, but it is believed to antedate the telescope. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Well, I raly would not ha' believed it, unless I had ha' happened to ha' been here! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They said they believed it was an incendiary document, leveled at the government. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• George, I couldn't have believed you would have done it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Will it ever be believed? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

Typist: Trevor