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Example sentences for "are said"

  • Those at Gisburne, also in Yorkshire, are said by Bewick to have been sometimes without dark muzzles, with the inside alone of the ears brown; and they are elsewhere said to have been low in stature and hornless.

  • The wild white cattle in the Duke of Hamilton's park, where I have heard of the birth of a black calf, are said by Lord Tankerville to be inferior to those at Chillingham.

  • Persons receiving part of the salary of an office from the holder of it, by virtue of an agreement with the donor, are said to be quartered on him.

  • Those who lose a game of whist, without scoring five, are said to be lurched.

  • Also the Northumbrian pronunciation: the people of that country, but chiefly about Newcastle and Morpeth, are said to have a burr in their throats, particularly called the Newcastle burr.

  • Strollers living in an alehouse without paying their quarters, are said to burn the ken.

  • Bailiffs who take money to postpone or refrain the serving of a writ, are said to bug the writ.

  • Of the sixty-four hospital ships we are said to possess the "Aquitania" would make the most desirable capture, and our most dangerous spot is the Aegean, from behind any of whose numerous islands a submarine lying in wait may dart out.

  • In Thee, O Lord, have I hoped," are said in His person.

  • Upaskara) are said to be due to ad.r.s.ta.

  • In later times the main points of difference between the Vais'e.sika and Nyâya are said to lie with regard to theory of the notion of number, changes of colour in the molecules by heat, etc.

  • They, then, who are said not to be masters of themselves, are said to be so because they are not under the government of reason, to which is assigned by nature the power over the whole soul.

  • He appears to have been born at the end of the tenth century and though the Śûnya Purâṇa has been re-edited and interpolated parts of it are said to be in very old Bengali.

  • Many Vishnuite works[463] are said to be revealed by Śiva who acts as an intermediary between us and higher spheres.

  • At Matins, the nine psalms and three lessons are said as one nocturn.

  • The Sundays of the year, excepting Easter Sunday, Low Sunday, Pentecost and Trinity, are said according to the semi-double rite.

  • Pater Noster, Ave, Credo, in silence, are said.

  • Antiphon (begun only) and three psalms, which vary, are said, Gloria Patri.

  • The Stygian owl gave omens of ill in a thousand places; in a thousand places did the ivory statues shed tears; dirges, too, are said to have been heard, and threatening expressions in the sacred groves.

  • Quinqueremes, or those with five ranks, are said to have been the invention of the Salaminians.

  • The soil in general is thin and barren, though some parts of it are said to be equal to the best land in England.

  • Some British soldiers, with their wives and children, are said to have been savagely murdered by those brutal Indians, whose ferocity the French commander could not effectually restrain.

  • This officer, and one Johnson a priest, are said to have undertaken the assassination of king William; but before they could execute their design his majesty set sail for Holland.

  • A partiality for their ancient customs, an attachment to their Noblesse, and a deference for their Priests, are said to characterize the brave and simple natives of La Vendee.

  • The colour of the skin and hair, and the odour emitted by the glands of the skin, are said[812] to be connected, even in the same race of men.

  • This difference apparently is not due to the cold of the higher land, for sheep and other domestic animals are said to be extremely prolific in Lapland.

  • Among the questions that the Jews are said to have put, in order to test Mahommed's prophetic character, was one series: "Who are Gog and Magog?

  • The tribes using it are said to be remarkably free from pulmonary disease; and indeed I understand there is a regular Galactopathic establishment somewhere in the province of Orenburg for treating pulmonary patients with Kumiz diet.

  • The tail feathers alone, however, are said to reach to 6 and 7 feet, so that Marco's ten palms was scarcely an exaggeration.

  • We may therefore state that those things are said to be possessed of some specific quality which have a name derived from that of the aforesaid quality, or which are in some other way dependent on it.

  • These, then, are qualities, and the things that take their name from them as derivatives, or are in some other way dependent on them, are said to be qualified in some specific way.

  • And it is because we possess these individual branches of knowledge that we are said to be such and such.

  • For in the same way we are said to be such and such because of these.

  • Yet the Americans, many of whom were without bayonets, are said to have maintained the contest with clubbed muskets, until the redoubt was half filled with the King's troops.

  • Senate-House are classed as Wranglers, Senior Optimes, or Junior Optimes, are said to go out in honors.

  • In many American colleges, students to whom are assigned a part in the exercises of an exhibition or commencement, are said to receive an appointment.

  • At the English universities, students who, for misdemeanors, are not permitted to be out of their college after ten in the evening, are said to be gated.

  • January, are said to "go out in a bye-term.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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