The sugar, he proved, was not completely decomposed into carbon dioxide and alcohol, as had been assumedby Liebig (p.
He had evidentlyassumed the direction of matters and his big assistant was amusingly obedient.
Alfaretta's face assumed a look of great solemnity and a shiver of real fear ran over her.
The house assumed a different appearance after the customary hour for retiring.
She could hear in his voice the tone which he assumed when he was bored or when he was talking with persons whom he did not like.
This is the third time that Judge Douglas has assumed that he learned about these resolutions by Harris's attempting to use them against Norton on the floor of Congress.
And as a ground for holding me responsible for these resolutions, he assumed that they had been passed at a State Convention of the Republican party, and that I took part in that Convention.
Even in the latter part of the seventeenth century, before chemistry had, properly speaking, assumed the rank of a science, we find Hierne in Sweden, whose name deserves to be mentioned with respect.
Both of these lectures assumed afterwards a municipal character.
From a belief that by a more formal concert their operation might be defeated, certain self-created societies assumed the tone of condemnation.
When Fernandez died De Soto assumed the Presidency, just as if he had inherited a crown, there being no other candidate.
In Valparaiso, as everywhere else in Chili, there is an intense prejudice against the United States, growing out of the attitude assumed by our Government during the late war with Peru.
After these religious services, Alvarado assumed authority as governor, and appointed his subordinates.
But the commotion was even greater in the other republics over which Barrios hadassumed uninvited control.
I venture to suggest that our Eliza, generally and very naturally assumed to be an abbreviation of Elizabeth, is in fact this missing name.
I would not undertake to say that our name is not in any instance from this origin, but what I say is that a proved Anglo-Saxon name is better than any assumed word, however suitable its meaning may seem to be.
This has been generally assumedto have been an original surname derived from nationality, and we need not doubt that it has been so in many, perhaps in most, cases.
The second is the localization of the function of thought in the circumvolutions of gray matter on the surface of the cerebral hemispheres--fact that we have already assumedto be sufficiently demonstrated.
He assumed the manner and state of an Oriental monarch.
Pompey, intent on the conquest of Arabia, made no decision; but, having succeeded in his object, assumed a tone of haughtiness irreconcilable with the independence of Judea.
M840) The Carthaginians now assumedthe offensive, and Sicily became the battle-field.
It was at the height of Etruscan power, that they assumed a hostile attitude.
During this period the Jewish characterassumed the hard, stubborn, exclusive cast which it has ever since maintained—an intense hostility to polytheism and all Gentile influences.
The successes of Philip filled him with arrogance and self-confidence, and the following spring he assumed the offensive.
The Senate assumed their old prerogative, and conferred the purple on Maxentius, the son of Maximilian.
He was adopted by the emperor, and assumed the name of Nero.
This popular measure was carried against violent opposition, but when the term of office of Cassius as consul expired, he was accused before the curiæ, who assumed the right to judge a patrician, and he lost his life.
The Empress is supposed to have been substituted for the Pope, who occurs in the old series of figures assumed by M.
In the Preface he thus speaks of the probable effect of the absolute condemnation of all games of hazard, on the assumed ground of their being both immoral in themselves, and forbidden by the Scriptures.
He declined it, however, and in 1147 assumed the title of emperor of the "greater Mongol empire".
It was commonly assumed that human nature is good or indifferent, and that human feelings are evil and have to be tamed and educated.
On top of this had been the young emperor's extravagance: his latest pleasures had been the building of palaces and the carrying out of military games; he constantly assumed new military titles and was burning to go to war.
When the Chinese Nationalists took over from the Japanese, they assumedall the leading positions in the government.
He assumed that an ideal life in society was possible if everyone followed his own nature entirely and no artificial restrictions were imposed.
The Wu kingdom entered into relations with a man who in 232 had gained control of the present South Manchuria and shortly afterwards assumed the title of king.
Liu Chi assumedthe title of Emperor and gave his dynasty the name of the Han Dynasty.
Secondly, it can be assumed that the Toba rulers by fostering Buddhism intended to break the power of the Chinese gentry.
The leadership was assumed by the tribe of the Juchên (1114).
Only part of them were still living the old nomad life; others had become used to living alongside Chinese peasants and had assumed leadership among the peasants.
As none of the skeletons so far found are complete, it is assumed that he buried certain bones of the dead in different places from the rest.
Because man produces works which are preceded by planning, therefore the philosophical mode of research has "assumed that the whole is descended from a thought.
Therefore it was necessary to make room for freedom of will somewhere else, and so "things in themselves," hitherto a phrase without value and meaning, assumed a higher importance.
Philosophy was at first impelled by the nebulous desire for universal world wisdom and has finallyassumed the form of a lucid special investigation of the theory of understanding.
This philosophical problem first assumed the form of polemics.
Already the English sceptic Hume felt that true causes are different from assumed causes.
It first found vent in the expression of surprise at the great confidence with which men assumed to predict certain phenomena and to point out their connections.
Now, if we recognize that this field is universal, we become aware that the assumed Kantian limitation is not a limitation at all.
It is a peculiarity of philosophical methods of reasoning to recognize a part in the whole, and it is tacitly assumed that the whole is descended from a thought which determines the parts.
But it assumed its clearest and best developed form when the modern bourgeoisie had become the ruling class in capitalistic Europe and the thinkers gave expression to the ideas of this class.
But whoever regards development, education, and blessedness on earth as man's life purpose, will not think that the questioning of the assumed superiority of traditional morals is irrelevant.
For this purpose, error is assumed to be the same as erroneous understanding, which may be admitted; but true understanding and truth are two different things and must be kept separate, if we wish to arrive at clear and unmistakable results.
Rather, if man has such a noble nature as he is assumed to have, life should be full of reason and bliss.
At first this was not fully perceived, since the soul was implicitly assumed to be force and the extension of movement was regarded as a pure gain to the life of the soul.
Agnosticism is, in fact, only an assumed absence of a theory of life.
It is plain that we need and seek more than we possess, and this seeking betrays that our being is wider or deeper than was assumed in those systems.
The latter smoothed his garments with a sheepish mien and assumed the downcast appearance of a penitent sinner.
But left alone, Father Vassily's face assumed a serious and solemn expression.
And when Jesus now commenced to speak he sat down in a corner with folded hands and his large eyes assumed such a gentle expression that everybody noticed it.
Mossyagin coughed, assumed a devotional expression, and cautiously inclining his head and his chest towards the priest began to speak in a loud whisper.
The gloomy pile assumed quaint and fanciful contours, and it somehow seemed that at its foot there stretched not an ordinary pavement, but the waves of the sea, the salty and shoreless ocean.
And the wrinkled countenance of the old woman assumed a peculiar expression, it became brightly radiant, as though the darkness of night reigned all around, but the light of day was falling on that face alone.
The oesophagus next examined, was found of a natural appearance, except near the stomach, where it was injected and assumed a red hue, contrasting with the whiteness of its upper part.
In a more advanced period, and when the feverassumed a typhoid type, blisters, bark, and serpentaria were resorted to.
Indeed, if the quotations given are correct, we think no one who has not assumed a party, can refrain from concurring in their condemnation.
The same coloring was assumed by those groups of lesser hills that, cone-like, are scattered over the easterly edge of the Perris Valley, and which separate the Hemet and the San Jacinto country from the rest of the valley.
Irregular in shape, it assumed the form of mountains, valleys, forests, streams, castles and turrets.
The cloudsassumed a golden tinge, turning to burnished copper.
So it will be assumed that you are at the pushpot field for counter-sabotage inspection.
Vaca de Castro not only assumed the supreme authority, but shewed that he possessed the talents which the exercise of it at that juncture required.
The factor Salazar even assumed to himself the office of governor and captain-general of New Spain; a monument was erected to the honour of Cortes, and funeral service was performed for him in the great church of Mexico.
Montezuma was much offended by the proud independence assumed by his nephew, whom he now resolved to circumvent and make prisoner.
Diaz says that he assumed the name of Don Carlos on this occasion; but does not allege even that he had been baptised.
Miss Stone, long a resident of Morristown, has published many poems in prominent journals and magazines, also stories, but always under an assumed name.
These stories and other writings were published under an assumed name.
The attitude of Luther in this matter was the attitude of the Church generally, in opposition to science, for it assumed its position in an age of dense ignorance, and claimed too much infallibility to admit of enlightenment.
The germ of something wonderful was perfectly distinct, but I tried the impossible with it, and when the electric light business assumed commercial importance, I threw everything overboard for that.
Tis not seemly for thee to rage thus against them," said Leborcham, "for it is on thy account that the women of Ulster have assumed one of their three blemishes, even the blemish of blindness.
Wretched that I am," he cried, "since the very first day that I assumed arms, I have never missed a cast until this day!
The Count was taken away by Miss Wentstile, who in the hour of his peril dropped the stiffness she had assumed at his recognition of Mrs. Neligage.
Jack bent forward to peer into her face and instantly assumed a look of deep contrition.
I'm sure I'd like to know who writes to literary men under their assumed names.
Already in the tenth century, a stone fortified palace stood there, but it was not until the reign of Bohemia's beloved King Charles I that it assumed something of its present form, being modeled by him after the Louvre of Paris.
He retired for a time to one of his castles, and then gradually assumed his old powers, which he exercised to the day of his death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assumed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
