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Example sentences for "brought"

Lexicographically close words:
brothir; broths; broucht; brougham; broughams; broughte; broughten; broughtest; brouillard; brow
  1. The ball was brought out, and the Dauntless quarterback kicked a beautiful goal, amid a great cheering and tooting of horns.

  2. The machine was brought forth from the bushes.

  3. A little later Amos Darrison brought out his three-seated carriage and all of the cadets but Andy got in.

  4. I have been here ever since you brought me in yesterday.

  5. Ritter, as he brought the Rosebud alongside the dock.

  6. A few strokes brought Jack and Coulter to the edge of the ice.

  7. Then Dale's team came up once more and brought rope in another six inches.

  8. Two axes had been brought along, and Dale used one while Peleg Snuggers wielded the other.

  9. Well, he brought it on himself," said Pepper.

  10. It was continued with spirit, but no clue was brought to light.

  11. Pepper caught his chum in his arms and brought him out and laid him on the grass.

  12. And this speech brought forth a roar of laughter.

  13. Over two of the beds they flew, and then brought up in a corner with a crash.

  14. Then he slipped his hand into a vest-pocket and brought out a five-dollar bill and three one-dollar bills.

  15. Pepper, and feeling in his pocket he brought forth an orange he had purchased on the boat.

  16. The melody brought visions of a distant heaven and far-off gleams of hope; but it also quickened the remorse that had set the lost soul in a ferment.

  17. Unluckily, he had praised the daughter to her mother when he brought her back after a waltz, a little chat followed, and then an invitation in the most natural way in the world.

  18. The first use that Castanier had promised himself that he would make of the terrible power brought at the price of his eternal happiness, was the full and complete indulgence of all his tastes.

  19. Beneath Melmoth's omnipotence lurked this tragical anticlimax of so many a passion, and now the inanity of human nature was revealed to his successor, to whom infinite power brought Nothingness as a dowry.

  20. Imperceptibly repentance brought him under the influence of the divine grace that soothes while it bruises the heart so terribly.

  21. Some of these processes are wholly brought about by bacterial life; in others the micro-organisms aid the process, though they perhaps can not be regarded as the sole agents.

  22. By the animal activities, some of the foods are at once decomposed into carbonic acid and water, which, being dissipated into the air, are brought back at once into the condition in which they can serve again as plant food.

  23. In short, the study of bacteriology has brought us into a condition where we are no longer helpless in the presence of a raging epidemic.

  24. This oxidation can be brought about by purely chemical means.

  25. This part of the food is thus brought back again to the bottom of the circle (Fig.

  26. In others, however, especially in America, bacteria are brought into action at one stage.

  27. The very rapidity with which the investigations have progressed has brought considerable confusion, from the fact that the new discoveries have not had time to be properly assimilated into knowledge.

  28. Until, therefore, we can answer with more exactness just how cure is brought about in case of disease, we shall be unable to explain the method of immunity.

  29. It can not be claimed for a moment that these changes by which the tobacco is cured and finally brought to a marketable condition are due wholly to bacteria.

  30. Even if the bacteria do thus overcome the alexines the battle is not yet over, for the individual has another method of defence which is now brought into activity to check the growth of the invading organisms.

  31. The preparation of indigo from the indigo plant is a fermentative process brought about by a specific bacterium.

  32. But the absence of chlorophyll and the resulting peculiar life has brought about a curious anomaly.

  33. Mr. Shepheard brought the sketch with him to England, and, upon the frequent mention of the Castle of Vincennes during the recent affair of the French ministry, he caused the drawing to be lithographed by Mr. W.

  34. The style is lucid and popular, and the writer's reasonings and bearings are brought out with much point and vigour.

  35. Wherever he went, he brought joy; and whenever any one was melancholy, the sight of him was enough to make him cheerful again.

  36. And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything; "the eye seeing in all things what it brought with it the faculty of seeing"!

  37. The Annals, thus laboriously brought to a triumphant close, carry history back to the Deluge, and down to the years contemporary with their compilers and authors, and the early part of the seventeenth century.

  38. He had been brought up in circles where it was thought wrong for a child to read the 'Arabian Nights,' and where Milton could only obtain a doubtful admission as a versifier of the Scriptural narrative.

  39. It was the clock of Saint Mark's at this moment striking midnight which roused my spirit, and by a sudden shock brought me out of the perplexed frame of mind in which I found myself.

  40. His extraordinary abilities brought him not only into the notice of the courts, but also drew him into the brilliant literary and artistic society of the Eternal City.

  41. Still, after he had received so much, there is no excuse for his having spontaneously brought death upon himself.

  42. The carver however brought him another dish, and Sancho proceeded to try it; but before he could get at it, not to say taste it, already the wand had touched it and a page had carried it off with the same promptitude as the fruit.

  43. Then, knowing I had brought the dead to life again, against the firm opinion of those ignoramuses, I felt such vigor fill my veins that all those pains of fever, all those fears of death, were quite forgotten.

  44. When I have brought a pleasant visit to an end in a friend’s house, it gives me a positive pang to see the pillows bereft of their cases and the bed of its sheets, and all covered over with a species of holland pinafore.

  45. Aunty May says I can begin with the very day Aunty Edith brought me down here.

  46. So to-day Aunty May brought me a big, thick blank book with red covers, and with rings at the back to let me add more paper when I want to, and she told me to write my own story, a little every day.

  47. One day, Aunty May brought a boy down the path with her.

  48. By and by Aunty told me that he had got the hurt when he turned back to help one of his men who had been shot; that even though he was hurt himself, he brought the soldier back to camp; so I ought to be proud of him.

  49. The subtle skill with which some of the nobler qualities of her women are brought out, especially their capacity for self-sacrifice and devotion, marks Mrs. Praed's highest point of achievement in the portrayal of character.

  50. This was the horse that brought about his downfall, and he was actually killed on the Queensland border in the way I have described in Robbery under Arms.

  51. But, à propos of your compliments, may I ask if it was only to treat me to them in full that you brought me up those confounded tower steps this morning?

  52. Hereward Pole, the hero, is a cultured Englishman, sensitive and sentimental, who keeps an eye upon humanity at large, as well as upon the business of making a fortune which has brought him to the colonies.

  53. Here she remained the whole day, and had samples of everything that was cooked in the kitchen brought to her.

  54. Gabriel started off at once, forgetting in a moment his heavy burden of books and care, and thinking only on the merriment and good cheer which Uncle Richard always brought with him.

  55. Because neither Richard nor I care to have our dinner with nothing but a lot of parsons," answered the Consul, in a tone which brought his wife to her senses.

  56. Anders Begmand had been brought up, but the magistrate stated that his evidence could not be received, on the ground of his mental deficiency and general infirmity.

  57. Rachel sat by the window till she heard the carriage which brought home Madeleine, and then hurriedly undressed and went to bed.

  58. His father had brought up his elder son to the business, and sent the younger to the university, and he was determined to do the same.

  59. He had heard a report that Marianne was unwell, but perhaps she was upset by the disgrace which Martin had brought upon the family.

  60. The conversation now waxed warmer, and Delphin wandered off to Madeleine, leaving Worse struggling alone against the arguments which both sides brought to bear on him.

  61. Once only he had had Don Juan saddled; but when he was brought round to the door, the old gentleman, thought he was too fresh for him.

  62. Aline Giraud, accompanied by a waitress, an ugly, angular Danish woman, brought in the meats.

  63. The swift water was not navigable for large boats in the ordinary way, so Britton brought the skiff to in a manner which showed he was a skilful sailor and which Marsh did not fail to note.

  64. In hysterical sobbing now the girl brought her own dogs, hitched them ahead, and slashed the double team till the cruel whip flayed their hides.

  65. When the light fell upon the captive's features, the two men who had brought him in recoiled involuntarily.

  66. That bottle of firewater brought me two million dollars!

  67. Britton brought the boat's head round, and the skiff drifted past the spot.

  68. They crunched down upon the gravel, and mental association of an unconscious variety brought Ainsworth the remembrance of another woman, the woman who had come across their course at Algiers.

  69. He wrenched violently at Lessari's wrists and arms, but they were as iron rods, and the movement brought his head out over the rim of the rock.

  70. The story of her father's death by an unknown hand was brought down by stampeders who followed me into Five Mountain Gulch on my second journey there after I had had my claims filed and had recovered from my starvation experience.

  71. At the host's call, the Danish waitress brought in the ices on a tray, while Jim Laurance muffled himself in his coat.

  72. Realizing that he was thus suddenly brought to bay, the fellow rose to his feet and whirled the butt-end of his whip aloft.

  73. He laid his hands gently upon hers, and the touch brought the delicate rose to her cheek, but the concierge's rapid French jabber warned them.

  74. When the flow of blood was stopped, she called into requisition some healing ointment which Bannon had brought on his own authority and then bound the limb neatly with linen.

  75. The action brought her face in close range of Laurance's eyes.

  76. She made a slight, almost imperceptible motion that brought her nearer to him.

  77. As she stood with her back turned, looking out on the street, some trick of memory brought into her mind the fact that she had once heard her uncle declare that he had bought his house and lot for that exact sum.

  78. Honora put on a linen hat and they took the gravelled path to the stables, where the horses, one by one, were brought out into the courtyard for their inspection.

  79. To the strange guests whom Tom in the kindness of his heart had brought back and befriended I gave little attention.

  80. Victoria recalled such days in her youth when weddings or garden-parties had brought canopies into service, or news had arrived to upset the routine of the household.

  81. The fact that the day was lost was evidently brought home to those below, for the strife subsided gradually, and finally ceased altogether.

  82. I brought the plants down from my own hothouse in Leith.

  83. These comparisons brought them to a pitch of risible enjoyment amply sustained by the spectacle in the monkey cage, to which presently they turned.

  84. Twas he brought the news of this latest war.

  85. Alas, the heavy basket which the Colonel carried on his arm was brought home again.

  86. Her restraint struck me as extraordinary; and while I was thankful for the relief it brought to a situation which might have been awkward, I was conscious of resenting it a little.

  87. At length one of them brought in a small child, and placed the foot of the unhappy warrior on its neck.

  88. Whetzel then sprang forward to the astonished red man, and with a shot from the unerring rifle brought him to the ground quite dead.

  89. That he had been adopted by an Indian warrior, who brought him up with his other sons, without making the slightest difference between them, and that under his father's roof, he had lived happily until within the last month.

  90. Captain Estill, the brave leader of this Spartan band, was now brought into a personal conflict with a powerful and active Wyandotte warrior.

  91. A ride of a few hundred yards in that direction brought him suddenly in contact with a party of Indians who were returning to their camp from a marauding excursion to Mason's Bottom, on the eastern side of the hill.

  92. On the morning of the 11th of June, the colonel was brought back from Sandusky on purpose to march into town with the other prisoners.

  93. In the following year he returned for his family, and brought them to a small settlement called Logan's Fort, not far from Harrodsburgh.

  94. Every day brought an accession of warriors to those already assembled, and every day the scouts witnessed from their eyrie, the horse-racing, leaping, running and throwing the deadly tomahawk by the warriors.

  95. They brought the body of Gillmore weltering in blood, and the head scalped, across the river.

  96. Colonel Shepherd had many trusty and efficient scouts on the watch; but Girty deceived them all and actually brought his whole force of between four and five hundred Indians before Fort Henry before his real object was discovered.

  97. Girty renewed his proposition, but before he could finish his harangue, a thoughtless youth fired at the speaker and brought the conference to an abrupt termination.

  98. See what I've brought for you, baby," she said.

  99. I had a most frightful headache when I woke up, and he brought me a sort of rummy dark drink, and it put me right again at once.

  100. So that got him within six days; for the management treated us like brothers; brought out the archives, and ran agile fingers over the pages till they treed the cats in the middle of May.

  101. Somehow it was brought home to me that she didn't like Englishmen, and that if she had had to meet an Englishman, I was the one she'd have chosen last.

  102. I have brought a few more of your personal belongings.

  103. When you have brought the tea you had better go out and send him a telegram, telling him to come up by the next train.

  104. I've brought him home to have a bit of dinner.

  105. He hasn't been brought up on Jeeves as I have, and he isn't on to his curves.

  106. And then a sudden thought struck me which brought me out in a cold perspiration.

  107. Jeeves brought his theatre pal round to see us, and we arranged the whole thing with him.

  108. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

  109. It must have brought home to him the realisation that a miracle had come off and saved him from being cut out of Aunt Isabel's.

  110. Reggie," he said, "you ought never to have brought me here.

  111. I have brought the heather-mixture suit, as the climatic conditions are congenial.

  112. She made me feel as if I were ten years old and had been brought into the drawing-room in my Sunday clothes to say how-d'you-do.

  113. Even if they had, it was clear that he would not have brought Meschini to confess before them a robbery in which he had taken part.

  114. As these things must be done, once and for always, I have brought my papers to Rome," answered the Marchese.

  115. She was delicate as a child and was brought up at home, so of course she has no manners.

  116. I am now about to communicate to you an affair of the highest importance, which, when brought to a successful termination will exercise a tremendous influence over all your life.

  117. I brought all the harm that came, from the first moment.

  118. Go and hire a house for us to live in, when that Neapolitan devil has brought Mavia Montevarchi to live in the palace where your mother died, where you were born--poor Giovanni!

  119. San Giacinto had seen the lawyers at Frascati, and he had brought his wife back to Rome very soon in order to be on the spot while the case was being prepared.

  120. I was brought up a farmer, and was only an innkeeper until lately.

  121. He supposed that she had acted surprise until he had brought forward something more conclusive than words, and that she was now exercising her ingenuity in order to explain the situation.

  122. A silent individual in a black coat had brought him in a carriage to the great entrance, whence a man of similar discretion and of like appearance had conducted him to his cell.

  123. He sat still and gloated in imagination over the immense wealth which would thus be brought into his family.

  124. He found me and brought me to you, because he said I could not go back to my father's house with him.

  125. The man who found out that there was a case against us, and caused it to be brought to trial, was Prince Montevarchi.

  126. The very brackish water Johnny had brought provided Grunt with what he considered the best drink of his life.

  127. The nest contained two baby owls, one of which he brought back to the camp with him.

  128. To avoid all waste we had brought along even the bones of the goat; from these we now made a weak soup, after which the bones themselves were divided out for a last picking, some of us even eating their softer portions.

  129. It was almost midnight when, a quarter of a mile from the creek, and near a place where a boat could be brought conveniently alongside, the party halted.

  130. Confined to our houses, we amused ourselves taking bets with the Turkish sentries, who were convinced that the fugitives would be brought back to Kastamoni within a week.

  131. The Cypriotes too brought cigarettes perched behind their ear like a clerk's pencil, and these we smoked with great appreciation.

  132. Our best day's march was one of thirty miles, and brought us down to the Kizil Irmak, better known to Greek scholars as the ancient river Halys.

  133. For this purpose we had brought along the sleeves of a waterproof coat, the remainder of which had been left in the cave when we reduced loads.

  134. A round table like a dumb-waiter, about 9 inches in height, was brought in.

  135. This, too, was the only way of obtaining a deep drink; except for half a mug of tea made from several-times stewed leaves, all the water brought down to the nullah each day was utilised for cooking the wheat.

  136. They had brought the little adze with them, and for this work it was invaluable, although its steel edge was not thereby improved.

  137. We brought our biscuit-making to a fine art.

  138. We feel then that it was Divine intervention which brought us through.

  139. A rusty saw, cutting like all Oriental saws on the pull-stroke, had been discovered in the village and brought down by the last party, and this proved useful now and on subsequent occasions.

  140. She had brought but one cup, however; for, never having seen a human creature entertained in that room, she did not seem to grasp the possibility of two strangers being invited to share Farmer Graves's meal.

  141. His cries brought his fair cousin rushing from the adjoining room.

  142. He brought me a letter from Charles," replied Maria, struggling desperately against emotion.

  143. You and your cousin Maria have been brought up in habits of great affection for each other.

  144. If I had not known that he had been brought up all his life in Spain, I should have fancied we had been at Eton together.

  145. They soon quarrelled, however, and separated; and the old gentleman took her boy and brought him up as his own son.

  146. As soon as he had brought the liquor which his two guests demanded, the landlord, well skilled in the usages of his own peculiar world, retired from the room, which for the time had no other tenants than those just arrived.

  147. Some fine trout were brought in, in the course of the morning, and also a salmon.

  148. The lad had just had a fit of some kind, brought on, the doctor afterwards said, by privation; and the girl was bathed in tears, thinking he was going to die.

  149. I should think it must be sufficiently brought before them every Sunday," said Mrs. Redmond, triumphantly laying her tenth mended sock in the basket near her.

  150. Georgie, who has been brought to a standstill for a moment, hears both remarks, and laughs aloud.

  151. Lord Sartoris, sitting brooding over miserable thoughts in the library at Hythe, has tidings brought him of his nephew's speedy return to London, and endures one stab the more, as he feels now more than ever convinced of his duplicity.

  152. Primroses and violets shine out from tiny Etruscan vases, and little baskets of pale Belleek are hidden by clustering roses brought from the conservatory to make sweet the sitting-room of their mistress.

  153. Yes, as soon as I can finish the business that has brought me back.

  154. The villagers should and would have music at any cost, and they never could be brought to see the enormity of worshipping in the whitewashed edifice that was, and is, as the temple of Belial in the eyes of their vicar.

  155. It seems to me that I am brought up here as a criminal before my judge and accuser," says Branscombe, very bitterly.

  156. Sawyer's mismanagement of the estate has brought me to the verge of ruin; but Lord Sartoris has taken care that you will not suffer.

  157. Reaching home, he orders his dog-cart to be brought round, and, by taking it a good deal out of his good gray mare, he manages to catch the evening train to town.

  158. Love set me up on high: when I grew vain Of that my height, love brought me down again.

  159. The two months that Dorian has given himself in which to finish the business that, he said, had brought him home, have almost come to an end.

  160. Lady Mary has nearly brought her little vague whisper to an end.

  161. But Penelope Proude had failed them, and, by so doing, had brought down eternal condemnation on her head.

  162. Dorian, involuntarily, being accustomed to think of Horace, at this hour, as one of a chosen band brought together to discuss the lighter topics of the day over soup and fish and flesh.

  163. A novel match has been brought off, last week, between the birds of John H.

  164. But suppose a man brought explosives aboard with him?

  165. Never was a moral revolution brought about more rapidly and more completely.

  166. The wounded man was tied on to a horse in front, the other rangers followed on foot for safety, while the trooper and Chicago brought up the rear.

  167. Then Chicago went down and brought up the horses, while Braxton remained on guard; and by mid-day the cavalcade was in full march through the forest en route for Fallen Pine, the rendezvous of the search-party.

  168. It wasn't anxiety after my precious health that brought you along here; that story won't wash at all.

  169. Maloney gave a wild cry of triumph, which brought the blood welling out from between his lips.

  170. The heavy wind and rain of the storm had brought down much d['e]bris, and the road was almost impassable in places.

  171. The main body kept about fifty yards behind them, while a solitary horseman brought up the rear.

  172. I rowed out to it in my boat and brought it ashore.

  173. Astonishment and fear brought us back into our seats, and we sat staring blankly at our pastor and each other.

  174. The third morning brought them to the northern bank of the Wawirra, which they forded.

  175. But the forces, which have brought about the present social order, continue their work regardless of the wishes of a few exploiters.

  176. Here also the customary choice of men from the same family of the gens brought to life the first hereditary nobility.

  177. And the state brought help in the form of the constitution of Solon.

  178. This was done by adoption into the family (the same as among the Indians) which brought with it the adoption into the gens.

  179. The present little volume is especially adapted to assist the exploited of both sexes in recognizing the actual causes which brought about their present condition.

  180. The development of commerce and industry brought about an accumulation and concentration of wealth in a few hands.

  181. The interests of society are paramount to individual interests, and the two must be brought into just and harmonious relations.

  182. Bachofen's merit consists in having brought this question to the fore.

  183. What passes behind the juridical scenes where the actual process of living is going on, and how this willingness is brought about, that cannot be the business of the law and the jurist.

  184. The old gentile society without classes is undermined and brought to fall by the most contemptible means: theft, violence, cunning, treason.

  185. Such is the message which the works of men like Bachofen, Morgan, Marx, Darwin, and others, brought to the human race.

  186. Complaints were here brought forth and decided, and death sentences pronounced.

  187. This state of things was brought about by the modern great industries, which not only admit of women's liberal participation in production, but actually call for it and, besides, endeavor to transform domestic work also into a public industry.

  188. Iron brought about agriculture on a larger scale and the clearing of extensive forest tracts for cultivation.

  189. That was a very vexatious and improper lawsuit their mother brought against me.

  190. At that moment the dog leaped from the boat, and the elder lady uttered a faint cry of alarm, which, directing the attention of the musician, brought him also ashore.

  191. He was presented formally to her friends as the son of the Vicomte de Vaudemont by his second marriage with an English lady, brought up in England, and now for the first time publicly acknowledged.

  192. My flowers have brought you back at last!

  193. At all events, it must not be very often, and Camilla is well brought up, and will show all the letters to her mother.

  194. Tom had triumphantly brought home the buck and gleefully called it sidehill-salmon when it was served and eaten at Frederick's own table.

  195. See, I've brought a pad to write it down.

  196. He had done much for his county, and the railroad was his last and greatest achievement, the capstone of the Travers' effort, the momentous and marvellous thing that had been brought about just yesterday.

  197. He was going to say more, but the strange flash in the girl's eyes brought him to an uncomfortable pause.

  198. The rear was brought up by Oleson, the Swede.

  199. He hath slain in the forest, and brought not the meat to the Stone!

  200. Hast thou slain a deer in the forest and brought it not to the Stone?

  201. When I brought the milk in the evening I was to bring back the receipt.

  202. I've brought bandages, but let me see what you have in that line.

  203. He searched in his pockets, and brought forward, between thumb and forefinger, tiny pinches of rubbish.

  204. Without warning, squarely and at right angles, and savagely, the doctor brought the edge of his hand down on the swollen crooked finger.

  205. What brought you, of all places, into the Klondike?

  206. Under his eyelids burned visions of East Falls, Connecticut, and of all the home scenes he had been born to and brought up in.

  207. A beautiful woman, at discord with life, is brought to realize, by her new friends, that she may open the shutters of her soul to the blessed sunlight of joy by casting aside self love.

  208. Flinging across the road a dozen feet behind the Flier, Matt brought the runabout closer on that side.

  209. It was you that brought my heart in my throat.

  210. Carl and I brought it to Albuquerque for him.

  211. He came here from Denver, and he must have traveled in that big car and brought the others with him.

  212. Matt was astounded, and brought the Red Flier to a halt once more.

  213. With one hand Ferral twitched at a lanyard about his neck and brought out a dirk.

  214. This was too deep for Carl, and before he could frame an answer, Matt brought the Red Flier to a halt in front of a small stone barn.

  215. Together the three boys made their way back through the gloomy grove, turned the corner of the building and brought up at the front door.

  216. It was beyond the glow of the acetylene lights, but the moonlight brought it out of the gloom like a white blur.

  217. Half a mile brought the car and its passengers to the end of the cliff and the chasm, and they whirled out into level country, covered with brush and trees.

  218. She had brought her watch, and it pointed to nine o'clock at the moment when they heard a dull thud several times repeated, which caused them all to start and look at one another in quick alarm.

  219. He lives, and by living he has brought dishonour and shame on his family.

  220. I would never have noticed it until one of them had brought me down.

  221. I'm sure that black bonnet brought her nearer to our hearts than all the Crown Jewels out of the Tower of London could have done; and taught us to love and reverence her as a woman as well as obey and serve her as a Queen.

  222. For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you nibble, The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve, They are brought to you daily by all us Big Steamers, And if any one hinders our coming you'll starve!

  223. They had been without newspapers for four days, but chance travellers from the East had brought strange and appalling tales of the invaders' desolating march.

  224. Ten minutes' ride brought me in sight of it.

  225. The crew of the Welshman were brought ashore.

  226. The news was brought at the moment when some great festival was being celebrated in the city.

  227. To some man hiding in the woods of Mont Guichet, a signal to him that he may come and fetch the news for Paris which has lately--very lately--been brought to the house.

  228. This young officer might very well have brought in a cipher message to the Chateau Villetaneuse.

  229. That was valuable news--it could not but bring recognition to the man who brought evidence of it into the Prussian lines.

  230. Illustration: In the meantime news has been brought to the members of the Scarlet Skull Gang that Macpherson has invented the most deadly silent pistol ever constructed.

  231. The remark was significant of the new atmosphere of literary enthusiasm which the feminine invaders of business London have brought with them into the luncheon-hour.

  232. The hill was by no means high, and five minutes' walk brought him to the summit.

  233. Mrs. Forbes lived at the distance of a mile, but Mrs. Payson was a good walker for a woman of her age, and less than half an hour brought her to the door of the brown farmhouse in which Mrs. Forbes lived.

  234. Giving the reins a sudden twitch, he brought the carriage round so that it was very near upsetting in a gully.

  235. Mrs. Frost spoke upon indifferent subjects, being determined to force Squire Haynes to broach himself the business that had brought him to the farm.

  236. This brought them in view of Chloe's cottage.

  237. At the previous lesson he had brought half a bushel of apples, from which he had requested the boys to help themselves freely.

  238. I have succeeded in getting the poor fellow's body brought to camp, where it will be decently buried, and have cut from his head two brown locks, one for his mother, and one for myself.

  239. There were times when we were brought pretty close to the wall, but God carried us through.

  240. It was not long before the squire's memory was refreshed, and he obtained clearer information respecting the young man, and the errand which had brought him to Rossville.

  241. The little contraband essayed a hasty flight; but Mr. Morton, by a masterly flank movement, came upon him, and brought forward the captive kicking and struggling.

  242. A cask of wine was brought up from the cellar, and the contents freely distributed among the rebels, or gray backs, as we call them here.

  243. Betsy brought in a slice of apple and one of pumpkin pie, and set them down before the old lady.

  244. By the use of the proper remedies, he was fortunately brought to himself, and his preserver offered to accompany him home.

  245. Henry Morton brought out a large portfolio containing various pictures, some on note-paper, representing scenes in different parts of Europe.

  246. Thomas Tubbs was a prosperous little tailor, and for forty years had been a resident of the town of Webbington, where he had been born and brought up.

  247. At ten Stephen brought mother down in the sleigh, and they were more mysterious than ever.

  248. Hanny brought home "Little Blind Lucy," and was so lost in its perusal that she hardly wanted to leave off for half an hour with Joe.

  249. There was a very early pie-apple on the farm and George had brought some down for his mother.

  250. She brought her sewing, and in her mind wandered about heaven, seeing Miss Lois in her new body.

  251. Flower roots and shrubs had been brought down from the "old place," and there was quite a showing of bloom.

  252. She played such jolly tunes, she sang like a bird, and whistled like a bobolink, could play checkers and chess and fox and geese, and she brought Jim a backgammon board.

  253. Well, I wouldn't want any of my sons to marry girls brought up as those Whitneys.

  254. Mr. Whitney brought them home by the dozen.

  255. Her slippers were white kid, her gloves had just a cream tint, and Miss Cynthia brought her own opera cloak, which was light brocaded silk, wadded and edged with swans-down.

  256. Mrs. Underhill jumped up and brought in the tea.

  257. The garbage man rang his bell and you brought out your pail.

  258. The apron was praised and the handkerchiefs she had marked for her father were brought out.

  259. He brought Aunt Nancy the history of Peter the Great and the famous Catharine of Russia, but she admitted that they were too cruel and too terrible for any one to take pleasure in.

  260. He had brought them back on his return, and now kindly disposed people were making up a sum to provide them with a home and educate them.


  261. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brought about; brought against; brought away; brought back; brought before; brought down; brought forth; brought forward; brought from; brought her; brought here; brought him; brought home; brought into; brought near; brought nearer; brought out; brought over; brought the; brought thee; brought them; brought together; brought under; brought unto; brought upon