Consisted

Examples

• That consisted of two matchless lips and a cheek only, her head being still enveloped. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The camera obscura consisted of a box with a lens at one end and a ground glass at the other, just like a modern camera. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Indeed, I am so unobservant of it, that to this day I can scarce tell a few hours after dinner of what dishes it consisted. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This consisted of mechanical means for throwing the shuttle across the web by a sudden jerk of a bar--one at each side--operated by pulling a cord. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The semaphore consisted of an upright post, having arms on each side, that could be readily extended, at any given angle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The signals of his telegraph consisted of the bubbles of gas arising from the decomposition of water, during the action of the electric current. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It consisted of a graduated arc of soli d polished brass five inches broad, two inches thick, and with a radius of about six and three quarters feet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In those days the principal expense of the sovereign seems to have consisted in the maintenance of his own family and household. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This had originally consisted of two levers, placed side by side. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It consisted simply in the hiring of quiet lodgings at Brompton, or in the neighbourhood of the barracks, for Captain and Mrs. Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This consisted of every rare delicacy, in and out of season. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They were of different forms, but that most commonly in use consisted of an upright post and a transverse movable beam on which the seat was fitted or from which it was suspended by a chain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Sunbury generating plant consisted of an Armington & Sims engine driving two small Edison dynamos having a total capacity of about four hundred lamps of 16 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this, his prosperity consisted. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A single suit of her sails consisted of 15,563 yards of canvas. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The principal business consisted in securing mules, and getting them broken to harness. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His press consisted of two upright timbers held together by cross pieces at top and bottom. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These consisted in increasing the fines, and, in some cases, substituting death for fines. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It consisted of five magnetic needles, ranged side by side on a horizontal line that formed the diameter of a rhomb. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It consisted of one small dynamo of a capacity of two hundred and eighty lights of 10 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The family never consisted of more than three children, two boys and a girl. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this very simple institution consisted the whole expense which any Grecian state seems ever to have been at, in preparing its citizens for war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My only food consisted of vegetable milk from the plants which gave so bounteously of this priceless fluid. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It then consisted of a comparatively thin shell filled with bullets, having a fuse lit by the firing of the gun, and adapted to explode the shell in front of the object fired at. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Wealth, therefore, according to them, consisted in cattle, as, according to the Spaniards, it consisted in gold and silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And then, proceeded Leinster, we took our breakfast, which consisted of thick slices of bread with a little salt butter. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It consisted of many milling machines and other tools for duplicating. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Jacquard’s invention consisted in individualizing and differentiating the movement of the warp threads, instead of operating them in constant groups. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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