Healed
[hi:ld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Heal
Checker: Trent
Examples
- This healed the breach between the two, never after reopened. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At all events methought that the wound could be healed; and, if they remained together, it would be so. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have the pleasure, madam, (to Mrs. Bates,) of restoring your spectacles, healed for the present. Jane Austen. Emma.
- George drew off his glove, and showed a newly-healed scar in his hand. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A secret feud of some years' standing was thus healed, and with a tacit reconciliation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She showed a mark in her white arm--rather a deep though healed-up indentation--something between a burn and a cut. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Christ knew how to preach to these simple, superstitious, disease-tortured creatures: He healed the sick. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Get thy wounds healed, purvey thee a better horse, and it may be I will hold it worth my while to scourge out of thee this boyish spirit of bravado. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His heart, exhausted by his early sufferings, reposes like a new-healed limb, and shrinks from all excitement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You have brought yourself to folly; you have caused a division which can never be healed! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Now, the saints forbid, said the Prior, that the son of the Saxon Cedric should leave our convent ere his wounds were healed! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Tom opened, at once, to a heavily marked passage, much worn, of the last scenes in the life of Him by whose stripes we are healed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I am free to confess that the loss of these seventy-eight inventions has left a sore spot in me that has never healed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Weak and ailing people were heartened and healed by his presence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After some weeks my wound healed, and I continued my journey. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is healed, said Ivanhoe; it is not of more consequence than the scratch of a bodkin. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then it may be rescued and healed, said Dorothea I should not be afraid of asking Mr. Lydgate to tell me the truth, that I might help him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Checker: Trent