Then answered straight the little foot page And a gallant answer he gave: “My Lord thy message I’ll carry forth, Though they lay me in my grave.
Then answered Brand Sir Viferlin, Had been in many a land: “Methinks I know a warrior stout Would thee in fight withstand.
A mate inquiring how the wind was, was answered by the quartermaster that they had a fresh breeze from the North North West, by which Jack understood that his sweetheart was no longer on duty.
I was surprised at my success, and told my publisher so; but he answered that he could sell an edition of any trash he pleased.
His lion's mane caressed the violin; his cheek pressed it like a living thing, closely, passionately, and it answered like a creature possessed.
He was swaggering with his hands in his pockets, and when the official spoke to him, he shrugged his shoulders and answered in dialect.
Thus Aun or On, king of Sweden, is said to have sacrificed to Odin for length of days and to have been answered by the god that he should live so long as he sacrificed one of his sons every ninth year.
How long he is to reign is settled by the influential men at a meeting; the question is put and answered by each man throwing on the ground a little piece of stick for each year he thinks the new king should rule.
I am the soul of Mariano," answered the one who had knocked.
I have told you already that you must not make any noise," answered Juan, "This is the stairway that leads to Heaven.
He however answeredthat they should follow the stones and bread he had dropped on the way.
The snail answered that he was not going to cheat, and, so that there might be someone to watch them and be judge over their race, he suggested that they call one of their friends to be judge.
But his brothers and sisters answered that they did not know the way home.
Tom Sleight," answered Henry, "the chap I'm telling you about.
There wasn't a flea-bite to go by," answered Henry.
Thim three is the twelve apostles, your honour," answered the driver.
She answered our questions freely and simply, and in an uncomplaining way, not making any attempt to awaken sympathy by enlarging upon the facts of their condition.
My friend asked her some questions, which she answered slowly, in a low voice that trembled with more than the weakness of old age.
Get forrud wi' that stuff, an' say nought," answered Jone.
I don't see how it can help making a difference," he answered slowly.
As she chatted I answered her perfunctorily, while all the time I was asking myself why I had ceased to desire her, whether the old longing for her might not return--was not even now returning?
Sometimes," she answered in a low voice, "sometimes I wish you would.
A woman can't expect to understand everything," she answered quickly.
Well," I answered hesitatingly, "I didn't know him very well.
Well, perhaps not even as you do," she answered calmly.
As I waited for my summons to be answered it struck me as remarkable that neither Nancy nor her father had been contaminated by the shabbiness that surrounded them.
No," she answered in a low voice, "that's the difference between you and me.
She answered nervously, her fingers twisting in and out of her bed-clothes--her eyes wandering uneasily from one to the other.
Certainly not," answered Kate, startled by her emotion.
The brisk young woman answered the summons at once with a smile on her face, and Mrs. Stanford's baby crowing in her arms.
Very happy," answered Eeny; "and will be still, I hope.
It is frostbitten noses to stay out," answered Reginald.
He listened politely, he answered courteously; but he was no more fascinated by Captain Danton's second daughter than he was by Captain Danton's housekeeper.
I am pretty well used to it," answered Mrs. Stanford, bitterly.
She answered for a walk, it might help her toothache.
That," said I, "is not difficult to tell, for it has been answered again and again.
You are not yet fit for heaven," answered the man, with impassive calmness.
The unnatural laugh that answered her could belong to no one but Mack.
Instinctively he crumpled up the letter in his hand and thrust it into his coat-pocket, then, with a poor attempt at a smile, answered her question.
Mrs. Cameron Campbell of Monzie touched the wire at the foot of the hill, and on the stroke of time the huge beacon burst into a brilliant sheet of flame, and was answered from hill after hill throughout Scotland.
Palmerston's appeal to the country had been answered by an expression of confidence in him, but that confidence was of a very complex kind.
After waiting some time they rang the bell, and desired the sleepy servant who answered it to convey to the Princess their request for an immediate audience, on business of extreme urgency.
On being asked when he would be ready to start Sir Colin answered with characteristic promptitude: "To-morrow"; and he sailed the following day without waiting to prepare his outfit.
Let us hope I may not be the last," answered Gertrude.
I believe he would," answered Gertrude in her most inscrutable manner.
I see," answered the man, "that she is almost the only employer I know who takes a personal interest in us.
I am sure of that," answered Gertrude, smiling again at the thought that it was his loyalty which made of him her chauffeur on that memorable ride.
Just outside; I'll call him," answered Gertrude, wondering at this reception of her news.
I suppose I shall have to be satisfied with that," answered Vickery, tucking the little memorandum book safely away in an inner pocket.
That was not the regular boy--depend upon it," answered Gertrude.
Moffatt was away, and when he came back a few days later he answered Ralph's enquiries evasively, with an edge of irritation in his voice.
I thought you weren't coming," she answered simply.
He answered her with one of his awkward brief caresses.
If Undine knows him it's odd she's never mentioned it," he answered indifferently.
No; they wouldn't," Undine answeredwith a darkening brow.
But when she suggested Ralph's taking up his novel he answered with a laugh that his brains were sold to the firm--that when he came back at night the tank was empty.
I could marry the right man," she answered boldly.
She could not have answered the Princess's question: she merely felt the impossibility of breaking through the mysterious web of traditions, conventions, prohibitions that enclosed her in their impenetrable net-work.
Touch and tone were enough to disperse his anxieties, and he answered that he was in luck to find her already in when he had supposed her engaged, over a Nouveau Luxe tea-table, in repairing the afternoon's ravages.
Ask Mrs. Eveleth to come in," she said to the footman who answered it.
Oh, but I thought that question had answered itself.
She wrote advertisements and answered them; she applied at schools, and offices, and shops; she came down to seeking any humble drudgery which would give her the chance to live.
Time was when Philip Thurston would not have answered any man abruptly, however great the provocation.
He answered to the name "Bud" more readily than to his own, and he made practical use of the slang and colloquialisms of the plains without any mental quotation marks.
Mona moved a little farther away from him, and when she answered she did not choose her words.
And Mona's voice, shorn of its customary assurance, answered faintly from the loft.
I'm going to ride down there," Thurston answered constrainedly.
Barby answered the phone, caught the urgency in Rick's voice, and yelled for their father.
And how much appeal would the show have if a gem expert answered questions on gems?
Jan answered excitedly, "Jerry, and a man who looked like my father!
The reason for the chopper is a long story," Steve answered Barby.
Two men jumped us when we started to get into the car," he answered shakily.
It's a good reason, all right," Scotty answered him.
Rick answered automatically, his mind not really on his Great Idea any more.
She answeredhis remark about Bruno by a caress to the dog that brought him to lay his muzzle against her knee.
If we succeed, if the volition finds itself answered in execution, then, also, the act once performed is thenceforth out of our power.
This is a question not answered by the theory now under consideration.
If by this be meant simply whether the mind always wills as it is, on the whole, and under all the circumstances, disposed or inclined to will, I have already answered the question.
Reid and others, especially many able physiologists, have answered this question in the negative, pronouncing the acts in question to be merely automatic and mechanical, and not properly involving any activity of mind.
Aristotle has more concisely answered the question in the important rule which he adds as supplementary of his general law; viz.
A little reflection will convince us that these questions are to be answered in the affirmative.
Asked the reason, he answered "I am terribly annoyed and excessively angry at the brutal treatment of Mrs. Bernard Beere by the press of New York.
Before I answered his belligerent request I swung my puny right which landed, fortunately, upon the point of his impertinent jaw and down he went in a heap.
I ought to" answered the witty Hoyt, "I married one.
Mayo had put several vital questions to Barry to his own entire satisfaction and answered them with equal satisfaction before Barry had a chance even to offer a reply.
All right, I'll be on time," answered Billy from the garden.
Siddhartha asked Channa what had been the cause of this man's suffering, but the coachman answered that there were many sick people in this world and that such things could not be helped and did not matter very much.
But Jesus answered that he never referred to politics.
The king answered very pleasantly that it was a fine day and that the Spanish question was now closed and that nothing more remained to be said upon the subject.
The Pope who was a practical person answered that the "power in the state belonged to him who was actually possessed of it.
Siddhartha pointed him out to his coachman, Channa, but Channa answered that there were lots of poor people in this world and that one more or less did not matter.
The Christians answered that this miserable world was only the ante-room to a very pleasant Heaven and that they were more than willing to suffer death for their principles.
When Disraeli and his conservative friends talked of a dangerous "leap in the dark" they answered "No.
They invented certain practical forms of architecture which answered the demands of their day and age.
Paul answered me that the Kingdom of which he had spoken was not of this world and he added many strange utterances which I did not understand, but which were probably due to his fever.
I hope that I have answeredyour questions to your satisfaction.
The Pope answered with excommunication and a demand that the German princes rid themselves of their unworthy ruler.
I don't like dogs," answered Elizabeth, after a long silence.
They gave the howl of following, and the horseanswered to it as a horse answers nowadays to the spur.
He answered her no words but pulled himself up from his crawling attitude by means of the alder stem, and hacked at her thongs with the sharp edge of his axe.
Eudena," he answered softly with pain in his voice, and peering into the alders.
They answered with his name, a little fearfully because of the strange way he had come.
Brellier himself answered the phone, and said that he was just thinking that as Wynne hadn't turned up yet, they must indeed have been making a night of it at the Towers.
They answered in unison, the bigger, broader one whistling as he swung along, his pace slackening a trifle so that the two newcomers might pass him and get on into the shadows ahead.
It creaked once or twice, but no sound from the still house answered it.
I thank Lord Cornwallis for the promptness with which he has answered my brother's message.
I will be as circumspect, Mildred, as the state of the war requires," answered Henry.
Nobody but my youngest boy, Andrew," answeredthe dame.
Consarning some business of a friend, as I have been told," answered Horse Shoe.
It is all fixed," answered Mary, "to our hearts' content.
This is like the rest," answered Butler; "I submit.
You have not answered me--is your father aware of this visit, Miss Lindsay?
A vidette from Rocky Mount," answered the horseman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "answered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
