Conducts
[kən'dʌkts]
Examples
- The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Thus the pointed rod either prevents the stroke from the cloud, or, if a stroke is made, conducts it to the earth with safety to the building. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Justice, in her decisions, never regards the fitness or unfitness of objects to particular persons, but conducts herself by more extensive views. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As the trooper speaks, he conducts them to the other end of the gallery and opens one of the little cabins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- George, you've got a hard master--in fact, he is--well he conducts himself reprehensibly--I can't pretend to defend him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Leading her by the hand, the god then conducts the newly liberated Hellas up the steps of the temple. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mesrour conducts the slave-merchant into my lord's presence; he brings a veiled female with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A general, who conducts an army, makes account of a certain degree of courage. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It conducts water to a power house near the falls. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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