Examinations

Examples

• Able men who have passed their examinations will do these things sometimes, not less than the plucked Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Terrible and inhuman were his examinations into every detail; there was no privacy he would spare, no old sentiment but he would turn it over. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I can establish a good private school for farmers' sons, and without stopping the school I can manage to pass examinations. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• At last all the examinations were passed, and the members of the class were called upon to record their choice of arms of service and regiments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Generals Ord, Wright, and Parke made examinations in their fronts to determine the feasibility of an assault on the enemy's lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The natural ph?nomena that take place every day before our eyes did not escape my examinations. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The two years following were devoted largely to surveys, examinations and preliminary work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The emperors and dynasties might come and go; the mandarins, the examinations, the classics, and the traditions and habitual life remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The examinations were for the most part mere _viva voce_ ceremonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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