Exercised

Examples

• How unjustly, how capriciously, how cruelly, they have commonly exercised it, is too well known from recent experience. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• An extraneous jurisdiction of this kind, besides, is liable to be exercised both ignorantly and capriciously. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A hospitality nearly of the same kind was exercised not many years ago in many different parts of the Highlands of Scotland. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On that evening the horses had been exercised and watered as usual, and the stables were locked up at nine o'clock. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Can you give them a field in which their faculties may be exercised and grow? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman, is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We hardly appreciate the power which the idea of the State, like all other abstract ideas, exercised over the mind of Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• Over the house itself, he exercised the same imaginary power as over its inhabitants and their affairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Afterward Empson and Dudley, two voracious dogs of prey, under the protection of this high court, exercised the most merciless acts of oppression. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Nay, the possession of books was to be obtained by copying what the art he himself exercised furnished easily to others. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is clear that the riddle of currency exercised Owen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The human being was needed now only where choice and intelligence had to be exercised. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Every conceivable phase of ingenuity that could be devised by technical experts was exercised in the attempt to show that Edison had accomplished nothing new. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To distinguish the brothers, I will call them the elder and the younger; by the elder, I mean him who exercised the most authority. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The early dynasties exercised far less centralized powers than the later ones. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nature still means something antithetical to existing social organization; Plato exercised a great influence upon Rousseau. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in some way or other continually exercised her patience and forbearance? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She never broke her word, and was much exercised in her mind how to get round it, and at last devised a plan whereby she could satisfy herself. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was, therefore, tolerably well exercised, and tolerably well disciplined. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Meade had the immediate command of the Army of the Potomac, from where I exercised general supervision of the movements of all our armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Texas, as an independent State, never had exercised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As their thoughts, however, are commonly exercised rather about the interest of their own particular branch of business. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When he exercised it by a bailiff, indeed, redress might sometimes be had. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There are certain doctrines which he learnt at home and which exercised a parental authority over him. Plato. The Republic.
• We find such active-minded English writers as Defoe (1659-1731) and Fielding (1707-54) deeply exercised by this problem. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Haven't you,' inquired the dressmaker, bending over the doll on which her art was being exercised, 'done interceding with him yet? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Smith has this morning exercised the privilege of riches upon a poor dependent cousin, by sending me on business to London. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it; but not upon such as thou. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• My nurse gave me a part of a straw, which I exercised as a pike, having learnt the art in my youth. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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