Differed

Examples

• And reminding you that she and her sister had differed, had gone their several ways? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In many points of detail the vassal's services differed widely in different parts of the feudal world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In certain other respects this primitive Buddhism differed from any of the religions we have hitherto considered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But in one very important respect British and German imperialism differed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In many respects they differed entirely from their successors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This boy differed from his sisters. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This differed somewhat from the form shown in his patent, in that the machine shows a paper feed roller which does not appear in the patent. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This was resented by the Godfreys; we differed, and they removed, leaving me the whole house, and I resolved to take no more inmates. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Her daylight view of them necessarily differed from the cloudy vision of the night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In politics they differed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The jaws, moreover, of the working ants of the several sizes differed wonderfully in shape, and in the form and number of the teeth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Concerning just how the torulae broke up or fermented the sugar, great chemists have differed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Smith thought a lodgment possible, but was not sanguine: Burnside thought something could be done in his front, but Warren differed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But though we both entertained these ideas, we differed in their application. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In reality, the two differed from each other as much as they differed from the object of their mutual contemplation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• My mother's ideas and mine differed at times, especially when I got experimenting and mussed up things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She did not like him as a man, but she must admit him to be the best actor, and on this point there were not many who differed from her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But at Rome the view taken of the revived empire differed a little from that. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He said of course the congregation could not hear a Northern clergyman who differed so radically with them on questions of government. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We differed entirely in the conclusions which we drew from the patient's pulse. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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