Constituted

Examples

• Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To secure such an exchange was, as you will remember, one of our principal objects when we formed them into a society and constituted a State. Plato. The Republic.
• Her guardian, however, he is, self-constituted as I believe; but his ward is as dear to him as if she were his own child. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The results of the work of the senses, preserved in memory and imagination, and applied in the skill given by habit, constituted experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They are as old as religion, and have been found wherever evidence of religious rites of any description have been found, as they constituted part of the instrumentalities of such rites. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The hind axle constituted the rear member of the frame and the front axle was swiveled at its center to the front end of the hollow square, in which the motor and countershaft were placed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Night Shadows A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The rent of the crown lands constituted for a long time the greater part of the revenue of the ancient sovereigns of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The drafts of Mr Dorrit almost constituted a run on the Torlonia Bank. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He noted that these men, and men who thought like them, constituted the vast majority of his subjects. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This constituted, after a manner, a double hinge that permitted of the portfolio being opened from both sides. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This force constituted my left wing, of which Rosecrans was in command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The social environment of the young is constituted by the presence and action of the habits of thinking and feeling of civilized men. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Food and drink were to be found as nature’s free gifts, but clothing had to be made, and its manufacture constituted probably the oldest of all the living arts. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This constituted the completed invention of the telegraph, and on comparing the work of Profs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Brayton of the United States in 1873 invented a very efficient engine in which the vapour of petroleum mixed with air constituted the fuel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The permanent inhabitants of Mecca were a tribe of Bedouin who had seized this temple and constituted themselves its guardians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One distinct group of visitors has always been constituted by the newspaper men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nominated, constituted, and appointed him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• What constituted his library? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The record plate is then subjected to a particularly constituted acid bath, which, entering the groove or grooves formed by the stylus, cuts or etches the same into the plate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And these two traits are precisely what characterize the democratically constituted society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For how can there be a society really worth serving unless it is constituted of individuals of significant personal qualities? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We are so constituted. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Social feeling and sympathy constituted a marked feature in my disposition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The extension of these arms on one side or the other, either separately or together, and at different angles, constituted a variety of signals sufficient for the purposes of communication. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Probably the dewdrop on a leaf constituted the first microscope. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Burnside, was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and from this time forward constituted a portion of Major-General Meade's command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To any rightly-constituted mind, the motive thus acknowledged was simply shocking. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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