Quite," he replied, whilst his eyes sparkled for a moment.
The emperor looked up as he entered, and returned his respectful greeting by a slight inclination of the head.
The fugitive had gained considerably now, and Tresler, for the first time since the race had begun, asked his mare for more pace.
She had gained her point, it is true, but she had gained it by means which gave no promise of a happy outcome to her purpose.
Since the king, our sovereign, sent them so great a spiritual and temporal consolation, and since their parents gained it for them by conquering this country at the cost of their own lives, we all are so bounden.
Through his determination, the men whom he headed were landed; and they gained and occupied those positions, responding with great courage to their defense and to the fortifications.
There is much to be gained in all kinds of trade with the natives, in purchases of deer-hides and merchandise for Japon.
The brilliant victory of Colquitt at Ocean Pond, of Forest at Fort Pillow, and other minor successes gained by the Confederate leaders added scarcely a transient ray of hope.
He thereby lost all that had been gained and insured his own defeat, for during the night, Buell's corps crossed the river and easily routed his army on the following day.
This was the reason he would never serve in England, and he gained his rank of Major in the 42nd regiment, the Highland Black Watch, composed entirely of Scotch noblemen.
His Lordship will please to consider that if Captain Grant had gained the shore on the east of Australia, he would almost immediately have found refuge and assistance.
Indeed, it has been noticed that a falsehood has sometimes gained ground by being exceedingly particular in minutiae.
Here they lived in comfort, and here Charles gained more than the rudiments of an education, his earliest teacher being his mother, who instructed him not only in English, but in Latin also.
But none shared the general feeling of dissatisfaction so keenly as Cedric the Saxon, who saw, in each advantage gainedby the Norman challengers, a repeated triumph over the honor of England.
We then suddenly altered our direction, and crossed ponds where they could not have suspected us, and about eight o'clock gained the heights back of the town.
The ground and wind favoring me, I soon gained the rocky ridge toward which they were feeding.
Whatever the real ground of her resolution might be, the resolution itself had gained strength since they had parted little more than an hour earlier.
My father will tell me that since I have gained some experience I should go and manage one of the estates and improve the buildings.
Carol gained confidence as they proceeded, and chatted with her sister nonchalantly, waving her hands about to show her perfect balance and lack of fear.
But as she gained in age, and bicycles lost in popularity, she discarded the amusement as unworthy a parsonage damsel.
So a reader could not harmonize his idea of old Scrooge gained in the first chapter with generous Mr. Scrooge of the last without the intermediate chapters.
Description, still dealing with the concrete, offers an admirable opportunity for shaping and forming the spontaneous expression gained in narration.
It is also gained by the subdual of parts not important.
Coherence, so necessary to the easy understanding of a paragraph, is gained in three ways: by the order in which the sentences are arranged; by the use of parallel constructions for parallel ideas; and by the use of connectives.
Clearness gained by use of figurative language, 258.
In Webster's orations there is a dignity, a sublimity, gained by the use of full-mouthed polysyllables.
As this kind of sentence is fascinating, some books have said that paragraphs should close so; that it is like cracking a whip, and gives a snap to the paragraph not gained in any other way.
Emphasis is gained by placing words in important positions in a sentence by arranging the parts to form a climax; by the use of the period; by forcing words out of their natural order.
Force is often gained by the use of figurative language.
Spontaneity should be acquired first,--crude and unformed it may be, but spontaneity first; and this spontaneity is best gained while studying narration.
Certainty of meaning precedes frequency of use; and this necessary confidence is gained from a study of the dictionary.
Rapidity is gained by the omission of all unnecessary details, and the use of the shortest, tersest sentences to express the absolutely essential.
Much of the desired result is gained by care in the selection of materials.
I should highly prize the advantages to be gained in an extended range of observation, but I tremble at the thought of the price I must necessarily pay in mental distress and physical wear and tear.
I gainedthe point, but I don't like such victories.
The effort will do you good; no one ever does regret a step towards self-help; it is so much gained in independence.
It cannot be said that Charlotte Bronte and Thackeray gained by personal contact.
Such a laughable opinion," he adds, "has never gained admittance among philosophers.
There is a possibility therefore that La Mettrie read them and gained some suggestions from them.
Counting on himself alone, if I may speak thus, and filled with the knowledge he had gained from his infinitely skilful researches into nature, he wished to communicate to the public the useful discoveries he had made.
Both vigorously oppose the belief in innate ideas, [40] teaching that even our most complex and our most abstract ideas are gained through sensation.
The greatest merit of La Peyronie is for having founded the Academy of Surgery in Paris, and for having gained special protection for surgery and surgeons in France.
An opinion so absurd has never gained admittance among philosophers, except as the play of wit or as a philosophical pastime.
They taught that happiness is man's chief end, and that, since man is a social being, his happiness can best be gained by mutual helpfulness.
In vain all writers of books on morals fail to regard as praiseworthy those qualities that come by nature, esteeming only the talents gained by dint of reflection and industry.
In 1760, he obtained the position of librarian at Geneva, and gained a seat in the council of the 'Two Hundred.
Sancho, who never liked any dangerous work, resolved to stand neuter, and so retired under the walls of the mighty pot whence he had got the precious skimmings, thinking that would be respected whichever side gained the battle.
Some idea of the intensity of the shell fire may be gainedfrom the following incident.
The Commanding Officer is very sensible of the fact that the excellent work done by the Regiment has gained for him his decoration and promotion.
During the South African War the Battalion sent out a company, and the experience the men gained there proved very useful at the annual camps.
Despite the training the men had undergone before the battle, there was a good deal of time devoted to field work, as in view of the experience gained and the lessons learned in the recent attack new tactics had to be evolved.
The correct courtesy of his demeanour gained for the illustrissimo signore inglese the wholehearted respect of the Signore and Signora Tonelli.
They gained confirmation of the amazing fact that, in this squalid, stone-flagged, rickety little square, Sir Hildebrand had managed to make himself beloved.
Though his narrowness of view earned him but little love from his fellow-humans, his singleness of purpose, aided by an ample fortune, gained a measure of their respect.
German commerce in South America has suffered rather than gained by talk of 'shining armour.
The half-hesitating whisper has become a strain of mighty music; the uncertain hand has gained self-confidence so that the design now shows the boldness and decision of a master.
This he gladly accepted, using what knowledge he had gained in the machine-shop.
The South gained strength from the sympathy of England, and only by careful leadership was war avoided with that country.
A month later, by the death of Thrane, he came into this position, having gained the pardon of his disappointed father.
The fleet lost three hundred and thirty-five men, but Farragut gained the day.
Seward of New York was a leading candidate, the West gained the nomination, with their idolized Lincoln.
He believed nothing was to be gained by punishing a defeated portion of our nation, and wanted the past buried as quickly as possible.
In which two things, whosoever they were that after him bestowed their labour, he gained the advantage, of prejudice against them if they gainsayed, and of glory above them if they consented.
This last calumny gained but little credit at Rome, though it was said an order was sent to examine the registers of the place where Molinos was baptised.
The troops forced their way by the superiority of numbers, and having gained the rocks, pass, and defile, began to make the most horrid depredations, and exercise the greatest cruelties.
Juillerat pursued his course, but when he gained the temple the sexton had not the courage to open the door, and he was obliged to do it himself.
Lord Harant was a man of good sense, great piety, and much experience gained by travel, as he had visited the principal places in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The priests, employed in this mission, gained such an influence at court, that the emperor consented to abolish the established rites of the Ethiopian church, and to admit those of Rome.
The cardinal having gained his point by deluding the people of one town, sent for troops of soldiers, with a view to murder those of the other.
Since, under war conditions, new developments are always taking place in this work, the knowledge gained of practical value filters through to the army by these channels as well as through the scientific journals.
He had gained a new airiness and sense of freedom which he was proud of, and it brought him into trouble.
Having remained inarticulate during the two centuries of classical education, it has lost nothing and gained nothing through them.
He had already acquired a great reputation for wisdom, which gained him later the title of the "Nestor of Europe.
Charles de Lorraine, however, showed a greater respect for local privileges than his predecessors and gained the sympathy of the nobles by his genial manners.
His speeches had not only stamped him as a genuine parliamentary debater, but had gainedfor him the reputation of being the congressional leader and chief organiser of the Jackson party.
He was not yet twenty-one when he made Whig speeches in the campaign of 1840 and gained employment with Horace Greeley on the New Yorker and a little later on the Tribune.
Whatever advantage could be gained by past events and future expectations was now Seward's.
No doubt many hated him, for he made enemies more easily than friends; but neither enemy nor friend could deny the great natural capacity which had gradually gained a commanding place for him in public life.
Fenton studied law, and, for a time, practised at the bar, but if the dream and highest ambition of his youth were success in the profession, his natural love for trade and politics quickly gained the ascendant.
Marcy used often to declare, in later years, that he owed everything he ever gained in life to the influence and example of Salem Towne.
The events of the past year had, however, convinced Spencer that nothing was to be gained by longer adherence to Tompkins, whom he had now come to regard with distrust and dislike.
Storrs, and other former leaders of the bar, was their successful opponent, and had gained the distinction of winning the first breach of promise suit in which a woman figured as defendant.
His delight, deep and unfailing, extended to every department of the government, and the minuteness of his knowledge betrayed the intimate acquaintance which he had gained of the affairs of the State during his four years in the Senate.
William Osler admitted his belief that man is fit for creative intellectual work only up to his fortieth year he gainedan undeserved reputation for grimness.
Now, in those countries where women have gained financial, industrial, and political standing, they hold a more dignified position in the home.
Dory contrived to cramp her so that she did not make much headway, and the steamer gained so rapidly on her that she was soon a considerable distance ahead of her.
In this way Pearl gained half a mile or more upon her.
He had gained time enough to enable the starboard boat to reach the schooner, and this was all he expected to accomplish by going aloft.
As time advanced and our regiment gained better and better horseflesh, it was a favorite scheme to pit Phil against new-comers.
Still we were dazed, and had not the officer gained his senses our fate would have been then and there decided.
The Eastern papers had wild accounts of the enormous yield in the Rocky Mountains, and free transportation by Government could begained by enlisting.
The Federal Government had gained the first important base on the Southern coast for her blockading squadron and given a foothold for the military invasion of North Carolina.
On this second day Lee's men had gained a slight advantage.
Through his brilliant interpretations and keen applications, they gained currency, became fashionable among the wits, were domesticated with people of culture and elegance, and worked their way into the religion and politics of the time.
Having gained these heights, philosophy becomes more luminous as well as more grand; universal harmony enters into human thought, enlarges it, and gives it peace.
A cheerful wisdom gained by thought and experience of sorrow, tempers his judgment of men and measures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
