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Example sentences for "exprest"

Lexicographically close words:
expressiveness; expressly; expressman; expressmen; expressway; exprime; expriment; exprimer; expropriate; expropriated
  1. Mrs Miller believed all which Jones told her to be true, and exprest much pity and concern for him.

  2. At all which the guide exprest some signs of astonishment to Partridge; who more than once shook his head, and cryed, Poor gentleman!

  3. Jones exprest some indignation at this levity, and spoke with the utmost contrition for what had happened.

  4. I say in complacence to him, because she always exprest the greatest contempt for dress, and for those ladies who made it their study.

  5. Mr Allworthy exprest great surprize at this account, and the captain as great at his ignorance of it; for he said he had known it above a month: and at length recollected with much difficulty that he was told it by Mrs Wilkins.

  6. Let this auspicious morning be exprest With a white stone.

  7. His notions of Christianity could not be exprest in our forms, nor could our notions be made intelligible to his ears.

  8. Jews of the captivity exprest their dislike and contempt for the troublesome and mystical prophet who was among them.

  9. One feels a solemn awe, as if entering the holy of holies, in seeking to enter into the mind of Christ as exprest in this prayer.

  10. When St. Paul addrest the Athenians, he could find such a thought exprest by a poet only, who had said, "We are also His offspring.

  11. We may give religion but not godliness; the means of grace, as they are called, but not the grace seen and exprest in the living man.

  12. To the Apostle Paul love exprest more than a relationship.

  13. This my joy is therefore fulfilled," he said, as he dwelt upon the first advances of the gospel, and he exprest thus a sweetness of sacrifice forever unknown to personal souls that remain vulgar in spite of their genius.

  14. He received me kindly, and exprest a hope that I should remain some time in Berlin, as he knew, to a certain extent, the vicissitudes of my past life.

  15. He sought an opportunity to speak with Jarno; to whom, on meeting with him, he exprest his boundless gratitude for such delicious entertainment.

  16. His face exprest nothing but self-satisfaction, and he appeared to take life as calmly as the goldfinch suspended over his head in its wicker cage--this was the chemist.

  17. At last Don Quixote's end came, after he had received all the sacraments, and had in full and forcible terms exprest his detestation of books of chivalry.

  18. All stoicism is undramatical; and our sympathy is always proportioned to the suffering exprest by the object which interests us.

  19. Gustavus had also exprest a wish to meet his brave antagonist, but these hostile wishes remained ungratified; death first brought together these two great heroes.

  20. Are not the Seven Liberal Arts exprest in Women's Shapes?

  21. He said, and on his Son with Rayes direct Shon full, he all his Father full exprest 720 Ineffably into his face receiv'd, And thus the filial Godhead answering spake.

  22. His idea of preaching is thus exprest in his own words: "True preaching must not be dead, but living and effective.

  23. These things can not be exprest in a word, as they deserve, and therefore I leave each to ponder them for himself.

  24. You have not yet exprest yourself; be plain, tell them your grief; a remedy will follow.

  25. Booth made a proper speech on this occasion, and, having exprest much concern at her present situation, concluded that he hoped her sentence would be milder than she seemed to expect.

  26. Mrs. James, who exprest great fondness for the child, desired to see the watch, which she commended as the prettiest of the kind she had ever seen.

  27. In all our conversations, in moments when he fell into the warmest raptures, and exprest the greatest uneasiness at the delay of his joys, he seldom mentioned the word marriage; and never once solicited a day for that purpose.

  28. The captain himself almost gave up all for lost, and exprest his apprehension of being inevitably cast on the rocks of Scilly, and beat to pieces.

  29. Mrs. Bennet, on the contrary, exprest some little dislike to my lord's complaisance, which she called excessive.

  30. I caught her in my arms with raptures not to be exprest in words, called her my heroine; sure none ever better deserved that name; after which we remained for some time speechless, and locked in each other's embraces.

  31. Have I not exprest that confidence, my dear Booth?

  32. Amelia very readily accepted the favour which Mrs. Ellison offered her; but Booth exprest some reluctance.

  33. Booth exprest great astonishment at this, when his attention was suddenly diverted by the most miserable object that he had yet seen.

  34. The poor old man lies on his deathbed, and has exprest a desire to see his son before he dies.

  35. III As significant as the spread of democracy in the nineteenth century is the success with which the abstract idea of nationality has exprest itself in concrete form.

  36. The fear has been exprest freely that the position of literature is made more precarious by the recent immense increase in the reading public, deficient in standards of taste and anxious to be amused.

  37. But then there is a whole world of things which cannot be done, of thoughts and moods and subconscious states which cannot be exprest on the stage and which can be exprest in the novel.

  38. In the thoughts just exprest I have used material found in this book.

  39. There is no reason, in fact, for believing that we can not repeat on the morrow, just as perfectly as we have exprest it to-day, a statement that we have made with clearness both of reasoning and of diction.

  40. When the idea we wish to convey seems to be exprest in a confused fashion, one should not hesitate to seek for a change of phraseology that will make it more concise and clear.

  41. But for example sake, as far as any thing can really be exprest by English Letters, without bodging patching, or bungling balderdash or barbarous gallimofry of our Romantic Letters, obscurer than the Egiptian Hieroglifix.

  42. But the Scotch are a cautious people; they remembered there was another in possession of the estate, and they as yet only exprest their feelings in low whispers to each other.

  43. His Majesty exprest a desire to have the literary biography of this country ably executed, and proposed to Dr.

  44. Emotion might have hurt her; and nothing I could have exprest would have been worth the risk.

  45. He was in great pain, and exprest much anxiety, for the event of the action, which now began to declare itself.

  46. Blair had just published a Dissertation, not only defending their authenticity, but seriously ranking them with the poems of Homer and Virgil; and when he was afterward informed of this circumstance, he exprest some displeasure at Dr.

  47. But they alas too feeble were, Her Grief was swoln too high To be Exprest in Sighs and Tears; She must or speak or dye.

  48. Sitting down by her, she exprest an absolute hatred to me for my incivility, and vow’d she would neither see nor endure me more.

  49. Other Discourse He exprest Himself to This Purpose; that was he Free from the Pain This gave him, his Blindness would be Tolerable.

  50. Mr. Paine exprest a great opinion of General Ward and a strong friendship for him, having been his classmate at college, or at least his contemporary; but gave no opinion upon the question.

  51. Mounting the scaffold, he exprest anew his forgiveness of those who persecuted him, and a prayer that his deluded people might be benefited by his death.

  52. Having completed all his arrangements, Egmont became impatient for the hour of his departure; and he exprest the hope that there would be no unnecessary delay.

  53. Mortification and resentment were exprest as forcibly as his face could exhibit them.

  54. He exprest it once in this wise: "I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mold under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.

  55. But the poet, not paying attention to the prince's exprest desire, unrolled his manuscripts and began reading an interminable ode without noticing the signs of impatience shown by his august hearer.

  56. They exprest opinions which they believed implicitly and which their respective natures directed irresistibly toward their peculiar bents of mind.

  57. But as this faculty is not given to many, so the average man may content himself with having something ready to tell, and this, if possible, in answer to the usual question exprest or implied: Is there any news this afternoon?

  58. Unconscious recognition of his just right to converse occasionally with older people was exprest naïvely by the little son of a prominent Atlanta family when visiting friends on a plantation.


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