I had seen the best of the breed, the captains of the liners, and he no more resembled them than did he resemble the bluff-faced, gruff-voiced skippers I had read about in books.
In the old days, as I had read, the anchor always came up to the rollicking sailor songs of sea-chested men.
Certainly, from what I had read, no ship of the old days ever proceeded so sadly and blunderingly to sea.
He had read a great deal, but of all he had read he liked Dickens best, and was always coming back to him with affection, whenever the talk strayed.
I had read, too, that Marshal Schomberg was remarkably shortsighted, and why might not Marshal Rousseau be the same?
The moment I had read this, I seemed to behold another world, and became a different man.
When he had read of her exploit from the guide-book, Isabel asked him if he had noticed that handsome girl in the blue and white striped Garibaldi and Swiss hat, who had come aboard at Kingston.
After he had read it twice, he turned the sheet over, as people do with letters that puzzle them, in the vain hope of something explanatory on the back.
The fact that she was hypnotized into thinking she was a cat would naturally accompany the Salem witch, and the cat in the apple tree, concerning which I had read, might also have entered the dream.
Just before going to bed, I had read an article about Vera Cheberiak, the Russian murderess of the Mendel Beilis case, and how she is now engaged in suing different people for slander.
This is perhaps an echo of something hehad read of Ribbert's theory of neoplasms.
Sir George King writes:-- "He had taught himself a little Latin and a good deal of French, and he had read a good deal of English literature.
I thought that I had read up pretty well on the antiquity of man; but you bring all the facts so well together in a condensed focus, that the case seems much clearer to me.
Cowperwood whom he had read about, the noted banker and treasury-looter.
He and his co-partner in crime, Stener, were destined to serve, as he had read, comparatively long terms here.
There was a shrewd Jew, a furrier, who was challenged because he had read all of the news of the panic and had lost two thousand dollars in street-railway stocks.
He sniffed contemptuously when he had read, and looked at me.
At my admission of its moving quality her white hand closed over mine as it had done that day in the library when we had read of "Isabetta and the Pot of Basil.
It was as if the Book of Life had at last been opened for me, and at a glance I had read one of its dazzling pages.
I had readin the Scriptures that he who committeth a certain sin shall never be forgiven, and that there is no hope for him either in this world or the next.
I then returned to my seat on the stone, and thought of what I had read, and what I had lately undergone.
He remembered all the dreadful monstrosities of which he had read--infants that were born of syphilitic parents.
He remembered something hehad read in one of the medical books.
They must all be afflicted, George thought, and he glanced at them furtively, looking for the various symptoms of which he had read.
He handed it back to me after he had read it, telling me very feelingly that I could in everything rely upon him and upon his influence and credit.
I signed the interrogatory after I had read it carefully, and went away.
At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics.
I could see that what was upmost in his mind was the fact that I had read "Negations.
I said, remembering the expression in something I had read.
He was calling on a matter of business, but began to talk about the extracts from Krebs's speech he had read in the Mail and State.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had read" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
