She therefore thinks of food not in terms of menus but as a means of keeping up bodily functions, as sources of protein, carbohydrate and fat--terms seldom heard outside of the university a few years ago.
Complaints have been heardin England about the war bread.
When the Earl of Chatham heard the defeat announced in the House of Parliament, he exclaimed: "One more such victory would ruin the British.
The nasal whine of a suppliant for alms, begging, as Erasmus begged, not in the name of charity, but of learning, makes itself heard both in the rhyme and rhythm of the original Latin.
I who heard the whole contention Now declare my song's intention, And to all the world proclaim: They who mix these things shall ever Henceforth be accursed, and never In Christ's kingdom portion claim.
Peter was hardly returned to Moscow, when he heard that Charles XII.
No sooner was he arrived at Copenhagen, than he heard (what he might reasonably expect) that the czarowitz conversed only with factions and evil-minded persons, who strove to feed his discontent.
Doubtless that which led primitive man to the invention of the zither was the tone which he heard in his everyday experience in war or in the hunt when he applied an arrow to his bow.
Its tones, however, cannot be heard distinctly by any one except the player himself.
I ought to have warned you of what I'd heard my father say.
All at once Pierre heardhis comrade call out, "I say, don't you hear water falling somewhere?
Pierre, indeed, when the night came, began to have some doubts about the wisdom of the idea, having heard his father say once and again that it was a very dangerous thing to attempt at that season.
But before he could return there were already more than a hundred people gathered around the hole, for the news of a human voice having been heard out of the "Larve Chimney," as the chasm was called, had spread far and wide.
The very highest personages were flattered when they heard that Pinedo had praised their cook.
The widow turned sharply to Arbos on her other hand, and asked him in a whisper: "Have you heard anything about Osorio's being ruined?
Do you know," said he, "that I heard your praises loudly sung by the President of the Council and some men who were with him?
And as he heard them, he felt a strange mixture of shame and pleasure, of jealousy and pride; the position of a son in such a case is extremely peculiar and embarrassing.
She spoke as though she had won the youth from her friend, with a scornful and patronising air which would have been a shock to Clementina's pride if she could have heard it.
Cobo in an undertone, intended to be heardonly by the lady concerned.
He had last come from Germany, and was on his way home to America; he had read some of the young man's scientific papers, and having also heard of his fine collection, he would not pass through Madrid without visiting it.
Dona Esperanza when she heard it hastily handed her work to her daughter, or, to be exact, crammed it into Mariana's hands.
Any one whoheard you would take you for a heretic, and that you are not, thank God!
I had heard that you had a very sweet daughter, but I see that reputation has not done her justice.
All of them," said the doctor, who hadheard the question.
At this instant Clementina heard a step in the corridor, and suspecting who it might be, she hastily went to look out, saying: "Wait till I shut the door.
Such doings had never been heard of in Rockland as went on that day at the "villa.
He has never heard of a plough; a staff shod with iron, with which he pries a hole in the earth for the reception of the seed, is the only agricultural implement with which he is acquainted.
I soon afterward heard that the owner of the shop was in prison, sentenced to be hanged.
An instance of this, which I heard of in almost every nation I passed through, I shall relate.
Since this incident, no Indian that has everheard of it, will venture near the same haunted coast.
These creatures are only heard during the twilight of the morning and evening, or just before and after a shower of rain, when they make a croaking noise somewhat shriller than that of a frog, which might be heard to a great distance.
I never heard of an instance wherein the bearers of this sacred badge of friendship were ever treated disrespectfully, or its rights violated.
Both of them might be heard to a very considerable distance.
I was told that when the Naudowessies recollected any incidents of the lives of their deceased relations, even after an interval of ten years, they would howl so as to be heard at a great distance.
An Indian woman, who accidentally passed by, heard the groans of the unhappy sufferer, and enquired from whence they proceeded.
As he traversed the ramparts which lay nearest to the Indian camp, he heard them in high festivity, and, little imagining that their plot was discovered, probably pleasing themselves with the anticipation of their success.
The snake heardhim not; and the time being now expired, he acknowledged that he had lost.
In the summer months it is heard in the groves, where it makes a noise like the filing of a saw; from which it receives its name.
No such proportion, has ever since been heard of in the world.
What was that desperate phrase I once heardyou utter--you would strike one blow, though you put your whole life into the stroke, and died upon the broken sword!
And I knew by childish memories that she could go abroad upon the winds, when she heard the sobbing of litanies or the thundering of organs, and when she beheld the mustering of summer clouds.
But there are more than you ever heard of, who die of grief in this island of ours.
I heardthe hurried trampling of cavalry through the streets.
He set sail from the port of Genoa, and was neverheard of afterwards.
At length I heard a heavy fire of cannon, followed by the shattering of houses and the outcries of the people.
On the evening of the day when I heard your love--a day which I shall remember with pride and gratitude to the closing hour of my existence--we were suffered to pass the gates, and take the route for Italy.
As we were trotting to the covert the country-folks were all on the alert, for not having heard of the disappointment respecting the Empress they were anxiously expecting her, and many were the surmises respecting her identity.
I said in a former letter that there was no cure for ringbone; I have since heard of one which I consider invaluable, and the lady who possesses it would sell it for a trifling sum.
If the friend was a gentleman, I must repeat the opinion I heard expressed by a lady when reading the article--that any man who would wilfully expose a woman to risk her life on such a brute behaved disgracefully.
I have heard persons aver that the man was badly treated, and that he had a perfect right to wire his fences if he so willed.
I have heard it said by two very eminent horsemen that to break a bottle of water between the ears of a rearing animal is an excellent and effectual cure.
He taught me the holy-talk of Vesper and of Matin, He heard me my Greek and he heard me my Latin, He blessed me and crossed me to keep my soul from evil, And we watched him out of sight, and we conjured up the devil!
Have you not heard that Napoleon lost the battle of Leipsic by eating too fast?
That man has grown up among affectionate sisters,' I once heard a lady of much observation and experience remark.
And we have never heard of any mental trouble arising from this quarter.
Many of the words heard now in the parlor and drawing-room, derive their origin from sources which a gentleman would hesitate to mention before ladies, yet he will make daily use of the offensive word or phrase.
Too many are eager to get their ideas expressed, or to attract attention; and the consequence is, that nothing is heard but broken snatches and fragments of discourse, in which there is neither profit nor entertainment.
Fortunately, it worked both ways, for Chandra, who had come from the pool and was putting on his clothes, turned quickly in Biff's direction when he heard that sharp call.
XIX The Lost City From his hopeless perch, Biff heard Kamuka and Chuba shouting up above.
As they left the community house, Biff heard the incessant barking of the dogs on the fringe of the town.
Biff raised a shout as he heard an approaching snarl.
Biff heard receding footsteps; then came a deadly silence, which was even worse.
The same as karnam or kulkarni or talati--I have heard it called by all those names--but it means in English, the man who keeps the village accounts.
But when Biff himself was dozing off, he heard occasional patter on the roof and scratchy sounds outside his window, indicating that some of the creatures were about.
Biff was stooping to replace them, when he heard a hiss behind him.
In response, he said: "They may have heard our talk of Yeti.
We heard from New Delhi, too," Mrs. Brewster said.
Often before, he had seen and heard people react the way Biff had.
The next step then would be--why hadn't they heard from Biff, a question Li couldn't answer.
No one has seen him since that time in Leh, but he has been heard from often, and his well-weighed decisions have increased his fame.
I never heard this tape before, but it's Dad's voice, as you both know.
His bruised heart must have suffered a fearful contraction as he heard men sounding the praises of a wretch whom he knew to be wicked and devoid of conscience.
No tidings were ever heard of the lay brother, and the fate of the father was announced in Tampico by his companions, who fled thither with the news of his martyrdom.
Mrs. Yorke and Edith, sewing and talking in the parlor below, smiled to each other as they heard her.
You must pray hard for my success,” I heard her say to one of them; “the poor old grandfather will break his heart if Jeannette is refused.
If the remainder of his prediction held equally good, he must have survived among them in good health for several years; but nothing was ever heard of him afterwards.
All doubts were soon at an end, however, for we all heardthe next shot, and then another and another.
You remember I always liked to find out the relations of things, and had the idea of a trinity in everything, before I heard of Delsarte.
We had barely reached our window when we heard the approaching music, the splendid band of the lancers.
They never heard glorious chants nor saw processions of clerics clad in golden robes; no ritual, no symbol even, was there to help them on; and yet they were saints.
I heard him refuse a pull at the Indian agent’s flask, between Devil’s Landing and Fort Jones.
Then she heard Wilhelm’s reply: “Would it might be so!
Presently I heard an exclamation from her, and found she was looking at the paper in which the apples had been wrapped.
Of the birds those we saw or heard most of were:-- 1.
A day or two later, inquiring after him, I heard he was very poorly, and began to wonder if the tabloids were answerable for this.
As we were sitting down to breakfast we heard a ship was in sight, but to our disappointment were almost immediately told that it was too far east to catch.
Sitting at breakfast we heard the joyful sound "Sail, ho!
Two and a half years later when we arrived home in England we heard of another kind deed of the captain.
On Monday night we again heard the rats scampering about overhead, and this morning early Graham was much pleased to find five in the wire trap on the kitchen window-ledge; one eventually escaped.
Through the night we had heard the cat crunching rats close by.
When Mr. Dodgson heard of this calamity he at once offered to return.
From what we have heard since we feel sure the captain never intended they should.
I sometimes have a race to get to the meeting first, and one day heard great laughter from her house and saw heads at the window; her people were much enjoying the fun.
We have just heard the whistle of the returning boats, and, as usual, the dogs have started barking.
He got across the brook without getting wet, and as he neared the school door washeard singing, "Onward, Christian Soldiers.
I heard most lively conversation going on during the process.
Farewells were waved and cheers given, and I think the last strains we heard were "For he's a jolly good fellow.
What he saw and heardmade a man of him for the moment.
Miss Van Vetter heard a little gasp, which, to her strained sense, seemed to be more than half a sob, and the arc-light swinging from its wire across the avenue was blurred for her.
This man knelt behind a locked door and heard himself execrated by the man he was trying to save; heard the first kindly impulse he had yielded to in months distorted into a desperate plan to rob the cursing maniac.
I never go to Denver that she doesn't ask me if I've heard of you.
From that day to this he has not been seen or heard of in Denver, so far as Tommie can find out.
After a time the roar of the stream seemed to quiet down, and I heard the clink of horseshoes upon stone.
The nameless one had his back to the door, and Jeffard heard only the conclusion of a jeering insult which included both of the women.
Besides"-- Myra heard light footfalls and the rustle of drapery, and stole another quick glance over her shoulder.
The other day Pat (if he has any other name I've never heard it) did a thing heroic.
Half the people here who don't know you think you're an escaped schoolgirl; I've heard 'em.
I've heard that these Western towns were fearfully tough, but I had no idea a man wouldn't be safe to sit down and write his house in the lobby of a decent hotel.
That is the first insincere thing I ever heard you say," she asserted.
Jeffard the fool may be heard of wherever the Associated Press has a wire or a correspondent; but Jeffard the miser will never exist outside of your own unbalanced imagination.
One little miracle in Pittsburg, well authenticated, would do more good than all the preaching ever heard in this sooty town.
I have heard it talked about a good deal, and am sufficiently well acquainted with it to justify my own mind in utterly rejecting all claims made for its divine origin.
Last winter wherever I went, I heard the most favorable accounts of Mr. Watts.
When I first heard of the cure of inebriety through scientific means, I felt that the morning star had risen in the east--I felt that at last we were finding solid ground.
I never heard of a poor wretch clad in rags, limping into a town and asking for the house of a Christian.
I have never heard any God described that I believe in.
Blaine in nomination, he replied: ] All I can say is, that I heard such a story the day after the convention, but I do not know whether or not it is true.
I heard an old story of a clergyman who rebuked a neighbor for swearing, to whom the neighbor replied, "You pray and I swear, but as a matter of fact neither of us means anything by it.
It may be that the Attorney-General was misled, and he really supposed that all he heard was true.
I have never heard of him, but for all that he may be the most intelligent of men.
I knew a young man, or rather heard of him, who won at progressive euchre a silver spoon.
I have never heard any religion explained that I accept.
I have never heard one say that he had anything against him or know of any reason why he should not be voted for.
Of course I have heard and read a great deal about the doings of the Society; so, I have some knowledge as to what is claimed by Spiritualists, by Theosophists, and by all other believers in what are called "spiritual manifestations.
We relapsed into silence as we heard the "Swanee River" sung more effectively than I have ever heard it before or since, and it reminded me that we, too, were going home.
Nearly all the officers of the corps held Imperial commissions, and one heard perfect strangers asking each other how these officers could justify their action of entering a friendly territory, armed to the teeth; while the fact of Dr.
We further heard that the prisoners, in number about a hundred, including Commandant Eloff, their leader, were then being marched through the town to the Masonic Hall, followed by a large crowd of jeering and delighted natives.
The tramp of many feet was heard in the streets, which proved to be the reserve squadron of the Protectorate Regiment, summoned in haste to headquarters.
Another person had heard I was the wife of the General who was giving the Boers so much trouble at Mafeking.
After detaining me a prisoner, the Boers returned to Setlagoli specially to secure this animal; they had heard the natives speak of her in terms of high appreciation, and describe her as "not a horse, but lightning.
A few days later we heard that Colonel Baden-Powell had occupied Rustenburg, and that the country between there and Pretoria was clear; so we decided to make a fresh start, and this time to take the northern and more mountainous route.
Two days later we heardthat Lord Roberts had made his formal entry into Pretoria on June 5, but our journey thither did not proceed as smoothly as we had hoped.
Therefore I arranged for my maid to follow in this vehicle if she heard nothing to the contrary within twenty-four hours.
If in England we had heard of the arrival of a "unicorn" in an aeroplane, we should not have shown more anxiety or taken more trouble to hear about the strange creature than did they concerning myself.
It appeared that, when my resourceful sister heard I had been taken prisoner by the Boers, she decided the best way of communicating with me would be through the President of the South African Republic, via Delagoa Bay.
We have no actual proof of it, but undoubtedly these announcements were heard on Mars, and might better be utilized as signals to that planet than anything that has yet been suggested.
We threw up the windows and heard every word of the picturesque, verbal duel, and we came to the conclusion when the flag fell that the oriental had had his hands full throughout the entire entertainment.
I had the advantage of you that I knew your name--I had heard of you.
I heardthat my cousin, Lucilla Barrett, said I told her, but Lucilla vowed to me that she never said such a thing or even dreamed of it.
When I heard that lazy, worthless father of yours was dead, I expected you and your mother would be looking to me for help," Timothy Robinson went on harshly.
Jims had heard Uncle Walter say that he was going to have it attended to but nothing had been done yet.
Abel suddenly, as if he had heard my unasked question.
I heardthe old black-and-white lady in the background chuckle to herself.
But I heard somebody saying in a very harsh, gruff voice, "Here, you two, wake up!
The Girl and the Photograph When I heard that Peter Austin was in Vancouver I hunted him up.
I had heard that he had been very clever and that great things had been expected of him.
His married sister from Carlisle heard the story and came over to investigate.
As soon as they heard of our predicament those lovely men got their two biggest horses and came right with me.
These were almost the first words I ever heard Abel Armstrong say.
But he didn't think Nancy Jane had heard him, and nobody, not even Jims, could imagine Aunt Augusta feeding the gobbler.
Lawson, who I heard was there, where I found him the same plain man that he was, after all his success in the Straights, with which he is come loaded home.
And he hath as much of natural eloquence as most men that ever I heard in my life, mixed with so much learning.
Troubled all night with my cold, I being quite hoarse with it that I could not speak to be heard at all almost.
Then to the parish church, and there heard a poor sermon with a great deal of false Greek in it, upon these words, "Ye are my friends, if ye do these things which I command you.
Lay in bed till 7 o'clock, yet rose with an opinion that it was not 5, and so continued though I heard the clock strike, till noon, and would not believe that it was so late as it truly was.
Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird, which whistles as well as ever I heard any; only it is the beginning of many tunes very well, but there leaves them, and goes no further.
I heard some of their speeches, and they were just as schoolboys' used to be, of the seven liberal sciences; but I think not so good as ours were in our time.
I heard other causes, and saw the course of pleading by being at this trial, and heard and learnt two things: one is that every man has a right of passage in, but not a title to, any highway.
Thence with great satisfaction to me back to the Company, where I heard good discourse, and so to the afternoon Lecture upon the heart and lungs, &c.
We discoursed of many other things to my great content and so parted, and I to my wife at my Lord's lodgings, where I heard Ashwell play first upon the harpsicon, and I find she do play pretty well, which pleaseth me very well.
At chappell I had room in the Privy Seale pew with other gentlemen, and there heard Dr.
May Ireland's voice be ever heard Amid the world's applause!
We have heard of a patriot adventurer who carried a handful of his native soil through the world.
The only sounds heard from time to time were the plaintive howlings of forsaken dogs.
Graham heard of the cavalry charge from an officer of the 1st Life Guards, who had lost his way.
They were, it is said, subjected to torture to induce them to confess, and persons of respectability testified that they heard at night shrieks of pain coming from the place where the prisoners were confined.
On the 25th of June the garrison heard of the fall of Berber.
Besides, one heard of a large number of cases in which not only British, but also black, soldiers received and treated their wounded enemies with great kindness, although at times they had but a poor reward for it.
Arabi, Mahmoud Fehmi, Toulba, and Mahmoud Sami were charged with having continued the war after they had heard that peace was concluded.
Here she was rescued by a friendly Sheikh, who had heard her screams, and who kept her in his house till nightfall, when he sent her home disguised in native clothes.
I heardthat Colonel Stewart and the two Europeans were killed at once, but Hassan Effendi held the blind man before him, so that they could not spear him.
After a number of violent speeches against the Khedive, the Coptic Patriarch remarked that the assembly had as yet heard only one side of the question, viz.
At a little before eleven the cannonade recommenced, and a dozen reports wereheard coming from the westward.
From that date nothing more was heard of it, and it was probably placed in the same pigeon-hole as the memorial for protection sent by the British residents just previous to the riots of the 11th June.
Three of the four were soon snoring; the fourth, however, remained awake, and very soon heard a creaking of the trestles on which was the dead body dressed out in paper robes, ready for burial.
Just as they were about to give up the search, a noise was heardthat seemed to come from a bureau in the ladies' cabin.
Near to Bunker Hill, sir, if you ever heard of that place,' was the answer.
In the city no rumble of commerce was heard on the streets.
All lights were out, the passengers were in the cabin, not a word was to be heardon deck, even the commands of the officers being delivered in whispers.
President Lincoln was at a cabinet meeting when he heard of Worden's arrival in the city, and hastily rising said, "Gentlemen, I must go to that fellow.
Months passed; and, nothing being heard from them, their friends became alarmed for their safety.
But of this the admiral knew nothing; and when, after an hour or two he heard the dull, heavy boom of an explosion, he went sadly to his cabin, fearing that the lives of many valiant sailors had been sacrificed.
It would have done your heart good to have heard the shouts and cheers that went up as ship after ship ran up the signal to indicate that she had no killed and none wounded worth reporting.
Such was the course of the naval war upon the Great Lakes; but the thunder of hostile cannon and the cheers of sailors were heard upon yet another sheet of fresh water, before the quarrel between England and the United States was settled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
