Existed

Examples

• He did not see her--he never did see her; he hardly knew that such a person existed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was strange how inviolable was the intimacy which existed between him and Hermione. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You supposed more than really existed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Had _Chambers's Journal_ existed in those days, it would certainly have formed Miss Helstone's and Farren's favourite periodical. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This distinction existed not for him, however, and he was quite satisfied with the English phrase. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At moments it seemed to him he did not care a straw whether Ursula or Hermione or anybody else existed or did not exiSt. Why bother! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The Court of Love existed in what we call the chivalric period of the middle ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Now we can understand why the city has existed so long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If there was a sincere liking between George and the Major, it must be confessed that between the boy and his uncle no great love existed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But for them the state did not exist; it existed for the select body of citizens alone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is hard enough, as things are, to reproduce in him the conditions as they existed, or nearly as they existed, last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The market was practically as free and open as if no patent existed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The obscurities of early Greek poets arose necessarily out of the state of language and logic which existed in their age. Plato. The Republic.
• By 1810 a new Prussia existed, the nucleus of a new Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But they are an extinct tribe that never existed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I believe there never existed in his station a more respectable-looking man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• What intimacy ever existed between you and me, pray, beyond that of common acquaintance? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The same double feeling respecting the mass of mankind has always existed among men. Plato. The Republic.
• Pilar told me that she thought they existed in your country. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But there existed as yet no grass, no small flowering plants, no turf nor greensward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But I was unable to excite in any breast the same craving appetite for knowledge that existed in mine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They could not see how the mere occupation of places was to close the war while large and effective rebel armies existed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In point of fact, the invention of these structures was possible only because electric light already existed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was nearly ten before he commenced to realize that a great difference existed between himself and his fellows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Giotto's tower (Giotto, born 1266, died 1337) and the glorious Duomo (by Brunellesco, born 1377, died 1446) already existed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And then he and Channa saw one of those wandering ascetics who already existed in great numbers in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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