He took my cousin and myself to the house of a poor widow, who had a spare bed which she let to strangers, and then conducted our comrade and the German to another lodging-place.
A soldier conducted us through a narrow cleft, overhung with crags, to the summit.
The guide conducted us through passages, in which were heaped many of the enormous cannon balls which it had received in sieges, to some chambers in the foundation.
He muttered something indistinguishable and held out his arm, and Margaret, understanding it as an invitation to dance, mechanically rose, and allowed herself to be conducted to the ballroom.
Many merchants, brokers, and underwriters, especially those whose houses had been burned in the fire, conducted their business at their coffee house and used it as their business address.
Chief Justice Popham replied that only one witness was necessary under common law, which applied to his case, and that the trial was properly conducted by examination of the defendant.
Outside retail trade and wages payments, business was conducted on a credit basis with a paper promise to pay at some future date.
In 1736, Claudius Aymand conducted the first successful appendectomy.
Auctions of goods and of ships and ship materials which had been advertised in the newspapers were conducted from a pulpit in the coffeehouse.
They conducted him to the hotel, but Natalie now became seriously alarmed; and well she might.
So saying, he led her gently forward and disappeared at the companion-way, conductedby the captain.
He conducted her back and took leave of her with a solemn tenderness which spoke far more than his words how much was now at stake.
A boat was lowered; and the same shadowy pilot who conducted the ships made it start toward the shore with the rapidity of lightning, and its head knocked against the bank where the four young men stood, who longed for the unblest drink.
Stopping suddenly at the foot of a page, he then read aloud that Benjamin Somers had on that day conducted the 4.
Vast transactions areconducted and international exchanges are made by the tick of the cable.
It is because I feel that there should be no rest in the endless war against the forces of evil that I ask that the war be conducted with sanity as well as with resolution.
The earl thanked him, and the young lady smiled, and Mr. Carlyle conducted her down the broad, lighted staircase and stood bareheaded by the door of the luxurious chariot, and handed her in.
Thus she was conducted to her carriage the second time that night by a stranger.
Mr. Jiffin tenderlyconducted her through the shop to his parlor.
Not that he had the least intention of giving up his business; it was honorable, as he conducted it, and lucrative, and he really liked it.
A vain, ill-conducted hussy, given to nothing but finery and folly!
In that primitive place--primitive in what related to the justice-room and the justices--things were not conducted with the regularity of the law.
Monsieur" chose haphazard, the Hotel des Ambassadeurs, and was conducted to it.
He had bought it as it stood, furniture and all; but the transfer had been conducted with secrecy, and was suspected by none, save those engaged in the negotiations.
The conducted tourist has not yet reached Bou-Saada, and consequently the native life of the place is all the more real.
Escape if you can," the Jew was told, as he was conducted to his prison.
By this time it has ceased to be a caravan, and has become a personally conducted excursion.
If you are a clergyman of the Christian church, and there are many "conducted tourists" of that order in Algeria to-day, you need have no hesitancy in making your profession of faith known to the marabout.
How war, especially war asconducted by Napoleon, satisfied his craving, requires no explanation.
He was the executive officer of the community, who conducted its business and had charge of its papers.
This state of things was tempered by a great system of smuggling, so successfully conducted that insurance in many cases was as low as ten and even as five per cent.
Each captive was conducted by two angels, to whom he was bound with red and blue ribbons, and the angels carried scrolls emblazoned with the arms of the orders.
Suppose, he says, that France is at war with England, and that hostilities are conducted on our side by a Directory composed of national representatives.
Meanwhile, he has tenderly conducted her to a lounge, upon which, exhausted as she is, she sinks down.
He conducted the ladies to the anteroom, where a regiment of lackeys were in waiting.
The monk who acted as their cicerone had conducted them to the library to show them Lord Byron's signature and his portrait, a small, authentic likeness.
Formerly she had conductedhis entire correspondence for him,--with what perfect regularity and skill!
It involves research and scientific investigation, conductedon an extensive scale.
It might even be reasonable to suppose that, had the work been conducted wisely and without the too open defiance of the letter of the law, the awful sequel which history knows, might not have been.
Not until Spurge had conducted Copplestone quite away from their late companions did he turn and speak; when he spoke his words were accompanied by a glance which suggested mystery as well as confidence.
And there were soon signs that those who conducted the proceedings evidently did not consider his presence necessary.
Or perhaps the happy absence of any lasting bitterness may have been due to the circumstance that our war--except for its few Indian episodes--was conducted with as little savagery as war may well be.
We were the scouts, the pickets, the couriers, and the rear guard on this skillfully conducted retreat.
Show him every mark of respect, girl, and have him conducted hither by one of the pages.
A fair fight, good captain, conducted according to the honourable laws of sword and lantern.
Yet they are all conducted with a degree of social amenity that to an American is as surprising as it is delightful.
The disputations were scholastic arguments--debates--on some set question, and were conducted by the masters.
Local trade is conducted either at the permanent bazaars of great towns, at weekly markets held in certain villages, at annual gatherings primarily held for religious purposes, or by means of travelling brokers and agents.
The old State Prison at Jeffersonville was at first conducted on the lease system, but public opinion compelled the abandonment of that system some years before the Civil War.
The trade of India with foreign countries is conducted partly by sea and partly across the land frontiers; but the frontier trade, though capable of much extension, is only a small fraction of the whole.
Commerce was conducted by means of a caste of bullock-drivers, whose occupation in India is hardly yet extinct.
Two of these missions are mainlyconducted by Spanish priests.
Mary conducted Louis to the cool, shaded, arched doorway, opening under the rich marble cloister of the court-yard, where a fountain made a delicious bubbling in the centre.
Isabel then left us to our conference, which we conducted with the gravity of a tailor and an old woman making a match in Brittany.
He placed me in the situation which conducted me to my present position; he gave me the impulse to improve myself; and, above all, he infused into me the principles without which the rest would have been mere temptations.
A canal conducted him as far as Cruces, after which he had to push on through wild forest and swamp, under the escort of the muleteers who took charge of the various travellers who had arrived by the same packet.
The frame, hitherto so vigorous and active, had been spared long or weary decay; and tranquil torpor had mildly conducted the happy, gentle spirit to full repose.
She reached the mayor's house, and as it was his time to be at home, she was conducted to the library.
I don't know, but I will find out;" and before she took her leave she told the ladies how she conducted her business, which amused them very much.
John then conducted her up-stairs into a room the walls of which were almost covered with books.
Knowing she was in favor with his mistress, he conducted her to the sitting-room, where the portraits hung.
The next day's march conductedthem into country the character of which was different from any hitherto traversed by them.
You may be very industrious, and energetic, and honest, and moral, and well conductedin your secular calling, but that will not stand you instead of what Christ requires.
The next day, Alec and Margaret, accompanied by Janet, were conducted in due form by Donald and David to the house which they had but lately finished on Alec's property.
The bridegrooms took them by the right hand and kissed them; the king being the first to begin, for the weddings of all were conducted in the same way.
It was reported that the country beyond the river Hyphasis was fertile, and that the men were good agriculturists, and gallant in war; and that they conducted their own political affairs in a regular and constitutional manner.
The envoys said that they yielded both themselves and their comrades to Alexander, and urged him to send some one with them to act as their leader, so that they might be conducted to him with safety.
Alexander then offered sacrifice to Heracles, and conducted a procession in honour of that deity with all his soldiers fully armed.
But Alexander himself remained behind at Ephesus, where he offered a sacrifice to Artemis and conducted a procession in her honour with the whole of his army fully armed and marshalled for battle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conducted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
