Deemed

Examples

• They were sanctioned by the authority of heaven, and it was deemed impiety to alter them. Plato. The Republic.
• If Napoleon had deemed it best to have continued his journey across the Atlantic to America he would have been compelled to pass several weeks on an uncomfortable sailing vessel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• One side or the other had to yield principles they deemed dearer than life before it could be brought to an end. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I shouldn't have deemed it at all proud if you had thought US too umble for you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• On the latter date a full-page article appeared in the New York Herald which so intensified the excited feeling that Mr. Edison deemed it advisable to make a public exhibition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The conversation exhibiting these unequivocal symptoms of verging on the personal, Mr. Pickwick deemed it a fit point at which to interpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy--not as angels, but as few are happy amongst mortals. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I deemed myself the steward of his property, and determined, God willing, to render a good account. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then clearly the next thing will be to make matrimony sacred in the highest degree, and what is most beneficial will be deemed sacred? Plato. The Republic.
• I do not know how far this was necessary, but I deemed it necessary, at that time, that such a course should be pursued. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My reply was ready; a reproach I deemed calculated to sting his very heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Descrying thus much of force of character in Mr Flintwinch, perhaps Mrs Clennam had deemed alliance with him worth her while. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Our explanation has merely aimed to show the underlying phenomena and principles in broad outline without entering into more detail than was deemed absolutely necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Those were the days when no one built a new edifice for station purposes; that would have been deemed a fantastic extravagance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Still in that attitude he said, with a hollow voice, Good night, Mr. Pip, when I deemed it advisable to go to bed and leave him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Their tendency is gross and illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous--but the honestest fellow. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And he is to be deemed courageous whose spirit retains in pleasure and in pain the commands of reason about what he ought or ought not to fear? Plato. The Republic.
• Bradley's face turned so dark on this hint, that Riderhood deemed it expedient to soften it into a compliment. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A wild boar, that falls into our snares, is deemed to be in our possession, if it be impossible for him to escape. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• By the last of August the cholera had so abated that it was deemed safe to start. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After the battle of the Wilderness, it was evident that the enemy deemed it of the first importance to run no risks with the army he then had. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Negroes are deemed as good as white people, in Venice, and so this man feels no desire to go back to his native land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But I would not wish to be deemed covetous, and I would rather leave it to you, Mr Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And this, as I imagine, is the reason why the forwardness to take office, instead of waiting to be compelled, has been deemed dishonourable. Plato. The Republic.
• Thus was I severed from Bessie and Gateshead; thus whirled away to unknown, and, as I then deemed, remote and mysterious regions. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was precisely what Emma would have wished, had she deemed it possible enough for wishing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In thus moving along the line, however, I never deemed it important to stay long with Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He deemed me born under his star: he seemed to have spread over me its beam like a banner. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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