I should rather consider that he was like Iaveh, ignorant and a liar, and that he chose Eve because she was easily seduced, and he imagined that Adam would have more intelligence and perception.
The form the poet chose favored this self-revelation; there is nothing, no outside conscious art, to stand between himself and his reader.
The essentially prose form which Whitman chose is far more in keeping with the spirit and aim of his work than any conventional metrical system could have been.
He cheerfully chosethe heroic part, as he always did.
But it was upon this very wall, new, useful, straight, and intensely human, that this rare little bird chose to sun himself that bright November morning.
The new mayor named two sword-bearers, of whom the assembly chose one; in the same way the mayor nominated four persons for serjeants, and the assembly chose two of them.
By this new system the mayor and aldermen met in the audit house a month before the day of election, and chose four burgesses for nomination; on the day of election they again met and struck two names off the list.
In a later form copied for another craft instead of the “company” the “masters of the guild” chose two men.
Then the town clerk and some of the eighty carried the three names to the mayor and the twenty-four “probi homines”; the mayor choseone and the twenty-four the other.
But at length I made choice, and, as usual, on this night chose wrong.
I chose this place because I knew I could touch life here and make him all I wanted him to be.
What would you do if all women chose to do as I have done and refused to bind themselves in matrimony to the man who gave them a child?
When Edward came to the throne he learned from the mistakes made by his father, chose his ministers wisely, and gave his people good laws.
Douce Venables was only nine years of age when she was married by her parents to the twelve-year-old husband whom they chose for her.
Every Easter Monday the two sheriffs chose teams of archers, and shot a match on the Roodee, the prize being a breakfast or dinner of calves' heads and bacon, in which the Mayor and Aldermen also took part.
The city guilds bore the whole of the expense and chose the players to perform them, each guild being responsible for one scene.
In the year 924, as you may read in the English Chronicle, 'then chose him for father and lord the King of Scots .
John the Baptist by the banks of Jordan, chose places where his preaching might be immediately followed by the ceremony of baptism.
The wall or 'vallum' was protected when necessary by a fosse or ditch, but Agricola chose his positions with such care that one side at least was usually already guarded by the waters of some stream.
She kept an orderly five dollar house and if anyone chose to break her rules of conduct, he ran afoul of her six-gun.
Little is known of his past, but whites later understood that he chose the forbidding region to outsmart a sheriff.
Toppy unwittingly chose a spot over the saloon where drunken celebrants soon began shooting at the ceiling.
So Aaron Winters chose his mate from the available supply and with Rosie, part Mexican and Indian, part Spanish, he settled in Ash Meadows in a dugout.
Then the town's constable shot its Judge and Ballarat chose him to succeed the deceased.
He chose to begin operations on the Noonday and sent Ernie Huhn, an experienced miner to deepen the shaft.
Mary was a squaw who, after consorting with several white men, chose for her mate a half-breed named Bob Scott.
Now, Mrs. Wildair knew well enough who Miss Jerusha was; her niece had pointed her out one day; but as this was an excellent opportunity for mortifying Georgia, she chose to be quite ignorant of the matter.
To all her questions Mr. Wildair replied with the utmost politeness, but--he told her just as much as hechose and no more.
What Mrs. Frazier was not prepared to see was Mrs. Blythe in frequent confidential chat with the officer whom the colonel's wife chose to consider her own invalid.
The lieutenant counted out a goodly sum, all Hannibal's own, and told him that he would find the balance banked in his name in the distant East whenever he choseto quit; then Hannibal broke down, and was speedily broken in.
This was the contemptuous manner in which the Court chose to intimate to them that preparations were being made for a royal session which was to take place two days later.
The noblesse and the clergy conducted their elections by means of small meetings and chose their delegates from among themselves.
To adjust the difference the governor and the bishop chosetwo men, D.
If Holland and Zealand chose to reestablish the Catholic worship within their borders, they could manifestly do so without violating the treaty of Ghent.
If he chose to retire into another land, his son might be placed in possession of all his cities, estates, and dignities, and himself indemnified in Germany; with a million of money over and above as a gratuity.
We chose rather to spend our own strength in training them to provide for themselves.
When, after a time, the hope of distinguishing himself impelled Colebrooke to new exertions, and he determined to become an author, the subject which he chose was not antiquarian or philosophical, but purely practical.
The very reason why I chose the hymns to the Maruts was because I thought it was high time to put an end to the mere trifling with Vedic translation.
He chose what was beautiful in Persian and translated it, as he would translate an ode of Horace.
After long forethought I chose 1,000 as a just middle.
Rhea once chose it for the faithful cradle Of her own son; and to conceal him better, Whene'er he cried, she there had clamours made.
This horse was Mr. Lincoln's favorite, and when he was in the White House stables he always chose him.
But the South at present was too busy in perfecting its long-cherished plans for the disruption of the Union, to more than grimly smile at this evidence of what it chose to consider "a divided sentiment" in the North.
The mother had been left a widow when quite young; she had only a small income, the son was desirous of a good education, and then he chose the profession he felt most inclination for.
Sir Arthur had his own particular way of doing every thing, and he choseto post to London.
It was purely a coincidence that the spot which they chose had already received from John Smith the name of Plymouth, the beautiful port in Devonshire from which the Mayflower had sailed.
They were offered the alternative of voluntary annexation either to Massachusetts or to Plymouth, or of staying out in the cold; and they chose the latter course.
M134) These events and these traditions seem to prove that under certain circumstances Oriental monarchs deliberately chose to burn themselves to death.
At Babylon a woman regularly slept in the great bed of Bel or Marduk, which stood in his temple on the summit of a lofty pyramid; and it was believed that the god chose her from all the women of Babylon and slept with her in the bed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
