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Example sentences for "had formed"

  • The observations Mr. Forester had made in his travels, the set of opinions he had formed, all amused and interested me.

  • I believed that it was in my power, by the resolution I had formed, to throw my share of this wretchedness from me, and that his could scarcely be increased.

  • As is usual in human character, he had formed a system of thinking to suit the current of his feelings.

  • The others had heard, by some vessels that had gone up from Khartoum, that I had formed a station near the Sobat, and had captured the vessel and slaves of Kutchuk Ali, thus they had landed their slaves at the Bahr Giraffe station.

  • But, for the present, his resolve was taken, and the resolution he had formed on the preceding night remained undisturbed.

  • The sight of the battlefield had seemed unendurable to the gentle nature of Middendorf he had formed a poetical idea of the campaign as an expedition against the hereditary foe.

  • It has been already mentioned that Philip had formed an alliance with Antiochus III.

  • Lepidus, a son of the former triumvir, had formed a plot for his destruction, which was detected by Mæcenas, and its author put to death.

  • He tells you that he has a doubt whether he was capable of realizing those hopes of revenue which he (Mr. Hastings) had formed.

  • He had formed a plan of an entire new system, in which the practical details had no reference to the experience and wisdom of past ages.

  • The whole conduct of that celebrated man proved that he had formed a deliberate scheme to subvert the fundamental laws of England.

  • Every principle of foreign, domestic, and colonial policy which was dear to the heart of Chatham had, during the eclipse of his genius, been violated by the Government which he had formed.

  • However, as he had still some grace, he recommended me to a gentleman with whom, since he had attached himself to politics, he had formed an acquaintance, the editor of a grand Tory Review.

  • At length I felt within my brain a kindly glow; it was the commencement of inspiration; in a few minutes I had formed my plan; I then began to imagine the scenes and the incidents.

  • One evening I was visited by the tall young gentleman, Francis Ardry, whose acquaintance I had formed at the coffee-house.

  • Robin Hood with his foresters returned to Sherwood; and Cuthbert, bidding adieu to Sir Baldwin, rode back to London, determined to carry out the plan which he had formed.

  • This entirely destroyed the plans that he had formed.

  • At the same time it must be allowed, that this work has not entirely fulfilled the expectation which the public had formed of it.

  • Upon leaving the latter place, he set out on his travels on the Continent, in company with Gray the poet, with whom he had formed a friendship at school.

  • No scene could be more smiling than this which here presented itself, or answer, in a fuller degree, the ideas I had formed of Italy.

  • The dry leaves chased each other down the steeps on the edge of the torrents with hollow rustlings, whilst the solemn wave of the forests above exactly answered the idea I had formed of Valombrosa, " .

  • The warm ivory hue of the original marble is a beauty no copy has ever imitated, and the softness of the limbs exceeded the liveliest idea I had formed to myself of their perfection.

  • He said that he was wearing away his time fruitlessly where he was, that letters from the friends he had formed in London desired his return to complete the negotiation they had entered into for his Indian enterprise.

  • My manner as I thus addressed him was impressive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my destroyer to death, and this purpose quieted my agony and for an interval reconciled me to life.

  • He had formed a respectable connexion by marriage, under circumstances which he has commemorated in the annexed specimen of his poetry, but his latter years were somewhat clouded by misfortune.

  • He was induced to adopt this sphere of professional labour from an affection which he had formed for a young lady in the vicinity, who, however, did not recompense his devotedness, but accepted the hand of a more prosperous rival.

  • With wonderful rapidity he worked away, drilling first one hole and then another in the shell, till he had formed a line completely across it.

  • Macco had collected several lengths of this curious creeper, each perhaps of fifty fathoms; and having twisted them together, had formed a very strong rope.

  • As only one iron spade could be spared, my uncle and I armed ourselves with a couple which we had formed out of bamboo, and which might assist Roger should we have to dig deep.

  • We had once more to use our axes, and by exerting them actively, we cut our way through to the path which he had formed.

  • If my father were suddenly summoned from life, what would become of the world of schemes which he had formed, unless his son were moulded into a commercial Hercules, fit to sustain the weight when relinquished by the falling Atlas?

  • But I had formed an erroneous idea of my father's character, from the importance which I recollected I maintained with him and his whole family before I went to France.

  • I, however, was also a party to be consulted, and, with something of his own pertinacity, I had formed a determination precisely contrary.

  • I had formed my resolution to press Rashleigh no farther on the events of the day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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