This was a judicious and wise measure, because it doubtless secured the services of a very large portion of the men who had almost completed a three-years enlistment, and were therefore veteran soldiers in feeling and in habit.
Grant's army had seeminglycompleted its share of the work of war, and lay, as it were, idle for a time.
General Grant that a battle was imminent near Edwards's Depot; that he wanted me to dispatch one of my divisions immediately, and to follow with the other as soon as I had completed the work of destruction.
If he had not been so firmly fixed in his resolve that he would not allow any woman to engage his affections before he had completed his college course, he might have come to fall in love with her.
Obviously they had completed the fencing-off of the quicksand sooner than expected.
This left hand had not completed the motion before Billy was reaching for the platter of eggs with his right hand.
But you can't understand if I stayed in the vicinity why I haven't been caught," he completed the sentence for the other man.
Smeaton undertook the work, and completed it in the summer of 1759.
With considerable exertion the solid part of the building, which reached to the height of thirty feet, was completed by September.
The main column of the lighthouse was completedon Friday, August 17th.
In the year 1789 a lighthouse had been completed at North Ronaldsay, but the experience of twelve years had proved that this was not calculated to prevent the numerous wrecks on the islands of Sanday and Stronsay.
Four rooms, one above another, and the lantern, with its balcony, completed the edifice.
He had just completed his account of the Eddystone lighthouse when he was prevailed on to continue his services as engineer to the trustees for Ramsgate harbour.
The eighth course was completed on the 13th, but the weather again becoming unfavourable, the ninth was not finished until the 30th, and here Smeaton found it desirable to close the operations for this year.
Thus Mr. Winstanley's lighthouse was completed in 1700, and though destined to remain but a short time, it was a most important and heroic step accomplished.
I was about to admit ignorance when an old recollection stirred in my brain and I completed the history.
Stragglers came and went, but our numbers remained steady and the group was completed by the arrival of Loring.
Having completed this task, Dick went to the opening for snow, which he melted in a kettle over the fire.
In another five minutes we had all but completed a circle, and were on the other side of the tamarack thicket.
They had not completed half their quota of circles when Brossy began to yell at them.
Very often the collars are completedwith sets of sleigh-bells, and sometimes the harness is otherwise ornamented with beads, tassels, fringes, or ribbons.
Franklin and his associates in Paris, after two years of negotiation, had signed the definitive treaty whichcompleted the independence of the United States.
His education as a journalist was completed by the failure of his Philadelphia scheme.
The South Carolina Exposition, when Mr. Calhoun had completed it, was brought before the public by one of the usual methods.
Mr. Clay, at length, had completedhis preparations.
When he had nearly completed his studies for the bar, he was again upon the point of abandoning the laborious career of a lawyer for a life of obscurity and ease.
He has now nearlycompleted his seventy-first year.
There was then upon the New York stage a notoriously dissolute actor, who, after outraging the feelings of his wife in all the usual modes, completed his infamy by denouncing her from the stage of a crowded theatre.
Having completedthe theoretical part of his subject, the author proceeds to the practical.
In three or four hours he has completed his circuit and comes home to breakfast.
The Stamp Act and the Revolution varied and completed his education.
During the later years of her childhood, her mother was grievously afflicted with a cancer, which caused her death in 1794, before Theodosia had completed her twelfth year.
The woman just alluded to, owed her two dollars, and she had nearly completed another week's washing for her, which would make the amount due her two dollars and a half.
Meantime, Mr. Smith, having completed most of his business for that day, stopped at a store where he wished two or three articles put up.
This determined upon, the friend went again to the second of Everett, and completed all necessary arrangements for the duel.
By the evening all the arrangements were completed and the whole party retired to rest much fatigued.
Having completed my work, I killed a sheep, well knowing the party would be fatigued and hungry, when they came up.
Our arrangements being completed for the morrow, we enjoyed our supper of sting-ray, and lay down for the night.
We had hardly completed it before the rain came down in torrents, and water was soon laying every where in the ledges of rock in the bed of the watercourse.
This completed our alterations, and the party and equipment stood thus:-- Mr. Eyre.
Having completed my observations we descended again to the plains steering north-west for the lake.
At lunch, having completed eighteen holes out of the thirty-six, we were seven strokes behind the leaders, Simpson and Thomas.
In 1322 he completed his work, which he called Kaphtor va-Pherach (Bunch and Flower) in allusion to his own name.
The Mishnah had been begun at a moment when the Roman empire was at its greatest vigor and glory; the Talmud was completed at the time when the Roman empire was in its decay.
The other work referred to is Joseph Cohen's "Valley of Tears," completedin 1575.
Their composite work, "The Rod of Judah," was completedin 1554.
Maimonides completedits compilation in 1180, having spent ten years over it.
The successors of these grammarians, Judah Chayuj and Abulwalid Merwan Ibn Janach (eleventh century), completedwhat Menachem and Dunash had begun, and placed Hebrew philology on a firm scientific basis.
There are two distinct works to which the title Talmud is applied; the one is the Jerusalem Talmud (completed about the year 370 C.
The short historical record known as the "Scroll of Fasting" (Megillath Taanith) was perhaps begun before the destruction of the Temple, but was completed after the death of Trajan in 118.
Kirkisani, also a tenth century Karaite, completed in the year 937 a treatise called, "The Book of Lights and the High Beacons.
I am sitting on a bench in Central Park, and I take out of my pocket a completed promissory note and look at it and place it upon the bench.
In any event the seller would be liable in damages for breach of the contract completed by mailing the lost letter.
Of course, we do not have a full completed organization, which we would call a corporation de jure (by right of law).
In unilateral contracts, the contract is notcompleted until the act requested is fully done.
The gift of the stock not having been completed by delivery, or by the relinquishment of control over the certificate representing it, the stock must be declared to be an asset of the estate.
The courts have held that a warranty made after a sale has been completedis invalid.
His sole interest here is to have the piece of work turned over to him in its completed state.
If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.
I would have liked to have completed hospitalism," he said, "but I hope some good man will take it up.
The following day, with French aid, they completed the capture of Vilny, Belleau, and important heights nearby.
On the night of November 1 they completed their preparations for retreat and withdrew their infantry.
Three--Repatriation, beginning at once and to be completed within fifteen days, of all inhabitants of the countries above mentioned, including hostages and persons under trial or convicted.
While this was going on the British field guns came into play with a shrapnel barrage fire which completed the demolition of the entrapped enemy.
The principal vessels engaged in this work were three monitors which were being completed in England for the Brazilian government when the war started and which were bought by the admiralty.
Evacuation by the enemy of the Rhine lands shall be so ordered as to be completed within a further period of eleven days, in all nineteen days after the signature of the armistice.
One of the unsuccessful attempts was described by an independent observer as follows: "The Germans succeeded in getting a pontoon completed and they came down to the river bank in solid masses to cross it.
The greatest blow which the Italian army had struck against Austria since the beginning of the war was completed on August 9, when Italian troops captured the fortified city of Goritz, for which they had been struggling for months.
On Tuesday, October 26th, a junction of Bulgarian and Austro-German patrols was completed in the Dobravodo mountains.
The education was quick, and very soon they had completed the work necessary for the protection of all.
The figures were restored, and each one placed on its own pedestal, which work was not completed until 1794.
Clementine Chapel of St. Peter's at Rome; this work was not completed when the cardinal himself died, and his own monument by Thorwaldsen was placed in the Pantheon before that of Pius VII.
About this time he executed an Apollo and Daphne which was never entirely finished, and when twenty-two years old he completed a group of Dædalus and Icarus for the Senator Pisani.
It is almost incredible that they were completed in four years, and yet there are no marks of haste upon the work.
He completed the Eurydice in his sixteenth year; it was life-size, and cut from pietra di Costosa.
He had assistants in this work, and it was completed in about a year and a half.
In these the Italian manner was adopted, and the works whencompleted were far more splendid and elegant than were the corresponding works in Germany.
It was nine years before the statue was completed and in its place, and in this time Cellini had suffered much.
This relief and his group of Cupid and Psyche, which was completed in 1805, mark the era at which Thorwaldsen reached his full perfection as a sculptor.
Hence the curd is put into the hoop and the drainage completed while the cheese is reaching its final form.
After the coagulum or curd is formed, the making process may be completed without the application of further heat, as in Neufchatel, Camembert and related forms (Fig.
After they are firm enough to handle, drainage is completed on racks covered with rush matting.
After the death of the real culprit days and months had elapsed before Justice had completed its leisurely formalities and the innocent man could be liberated.
It is worth while to examine in detail the work that he completed during this period on the Letters of Jerome and the New Testament.
Also he completed the chief composition of his lifetime, the De inuentione dialectica, a considerable treatise on rhetoric.
In the last three years he hadcompleted Jerome and the New Testament, and had also prepared for the press some of Seneca's philosophical writings, from manuscripts at King's and Peterhouse; besides lesser pieces of work.
Subsequently, in Cambridge, he again had access to manuscripts and completed his recension of the Letters.
The course at Zwolle lasted eight years, and there is reason to suppose that he completed it in full.
The second volume was completedin a month, five years later, in 1896.
This is followed by the fingers of the left hand, both hands with closed fists being held up to show the completed 10.
She flew to her room, completed her toilet, and in ten minutes was on the boat and rowing off to the yacht.
From what I can gather, the revelation is to be gradual and only to be completed if it should seem to be approved during its progress.
Another irrigation of the charged water and a third, after some delay, of clear water, completed the work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "completed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
