Expelled

Examples

• Poor devil, he's expelled the house! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• One thought chaces another, and draws after it a third, by which it is expelled in its turn. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This was a partial concession to the natural political map, but much blood had still to run before the Turk was altogether expelled from these lands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the second return stroke the burnt gases are expelled from the cylinder and the whole made ready to start afresh. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I expelled the nasty stuff with a strong English expletive and said, Foreigner, beware! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The waste gas is expelled as the piston moves to the left. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The plate is then placed on heated iron, which is wrapped round with several folds of paper, from which, by this method, all moisture has been previously expelled. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Madame Aigredoux grumbled, but it was of no use; and so, at lastpapa and I were both, in a manner, expelled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Poor Isaac was hurried off accordingly, and expelled from the preceptory; all his entreaties, and even his offers, unheard and disregarded. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He expelled Manlius from the Senate for giving his wife a kiss in the daytime in the sight of their daughter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As the flask was warmed, air was rapidly expelled; so that when the flask was shaken the second time, less air was present to transmit the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This stirring admitted air to the mass and the oxygen consumed and expelled the carbon, silicon, and other impurities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Egypt was conquered by nomadic Semites, who founded a shepherd dynasty, the Hyksos (XVIth), which was finally expelled by native Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was nearly expelled over a card scandal in his first year. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Everywhere kings were expelled and republics set up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He is solitary; like our first parents expelled from Paradise, he looks back towards the scene he has quitted. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am sending General Sheridan for temporary duty whilst the enemy is being expelled from the border. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I promptly ordered the prisoner to be released, but that he must be expelled from the lines of the army not to return again on pain of punishment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Vandal kingdom was recovered in 534; the Goths were expelled from Italy in 553. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As atmospheric air cannot gain access to the coal in the retorts, the gases expelled do not inflame, nor can the parts that are not volatile be consumed without a supply of air. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

Editor: Tess