The city possessed a library second only to that of Alexandria, contained one of the seven churches mentioned in the Revelation, and gave its name to parchment, alleged to have been invented there.
There is not a tradesman's sign nor shelf nor counter in all the streets of all our cities, which has not upon it ornaments which were invented to adorn temples and beautify kings' palaces.
The Cistercian monks thought it sinful to speak, and as they could not avoid holding some communication, they invented a gesture language, in which the principle of opposition seems to have been employed.
This, then, is the descriptive name which polite society has invented for the man who does this thing!
This instrument was invented by Professor Wheatstone, and first described by him in 1838.
Meanwhile your Lawrences, Eliots, and the 'Merchant Princes' (a satirical dog that invented the title!
The romance had pleased the child, and he hardly meant to lie when he invented it.
Finally, I dropped my mop and straightened up to rest my lame back.
As soon as one comes to know Edinburgh, he feels a gratitude to that old gentleman of Fife who is said to have invented the affectionate phrase "Auld Reekie.
He was originally only a color-rubber in the studio of one of the old rococo painters; but certain it is that he either stole or invented a most triumphant system of coloring, whose secret is unknown to-day.
I wish that the man that invented the word pfennig had to "do a pour of it for one tousand year," as dear old Dr.
It is the drollest sound ever invented for such a use: a loud call of rolling r's; an ingenious human parody on a watchman's rattle; a cross between a bellow and a purr.
The writers who invented those fables had, I suspect, a pretty clear notion of what is the true destiny of man.
If they had paid any attention at all to these words, that it was absolutely necessary for the Son of God to be given into death for me, they would never have invented so many hideous heresies.
The German is a stout enemy, and when we beat him with a machine he sweats till he has invented a new one.
Sometimes he dropped a hint of those days when he lived in the clouds and invented a new kind of battle, and his voice always grew hoarse.
Maybe you'll have to break some of these two-cent rules the British Government have invented to defend the realm, and it's up to you not to get caught out .
We have the honor of having invented a system of measures which, being based upon considerations of a purely scientific nature, has been accepted by all.
In the Stone Age, as with many savages, a circle typified the sun, and as soon as the wheel wasinvented its rolling motion at once suggested that of the sun.
He divided them into clans, andinvented music and song.
The late word derwydd was probably invented from derw, "oak," by some one who knew Pliny's derivation.
New descriptive or misleading phrases will be invented from time to time, sometimes by friends, sometimes by enemies of the movement.
Eugenics is a word invented by Francis Galton to cover the philosophy, collection of facts, the science, whatever we can call it, which regards race improvement as a desirable and practicable process.
Sometimes she was like a gay and laughing girl, and set all the place alight with her witcheries; she invented entertainments for their guests, games and revels for the villagers, and was the spirit of all.
Street cars had not been invented at the time Sydney was founded, and the locomotive was unknown.
Machines have been invented for doing this kind of work, and they are in use in some of the mines, but the men are opposed to them, and in some instances they have disabled or destroyed the machines.
Each man had invented some little kink of his own without which he could not possibly exist.
He has also invented a waterproof paint that he can use under water.
They had learned, I know not where, that a monk of the name of Souhaitti had formerly invented a mode of noting the gamut by ciphers: a sufficient proof that my system was not new.
He invented I know not what kind of story, to prove to me his presence was necessary in his own country.
If this was a pretence inventedto deceive me, it fully succeeded.
She yawned secretly in rooms of entertainment, or invented lame excuses for her non-appearance there.
A second series of nine deities, with Horus as its first member, was invented at the same time or not long afterwards, and was called the Lesser Ennead.
He appears to have invented the fiction which afterwards was repeatedly employed, by which the money spent on mosque-building was supposed to have been furnished by discoveries of buried treasure.
The later religious literature is much taken up with the mythical and semi-mythical dynasties of kings, and the priests compiled, with many newly-invented details, the chronicles of the wars they were supposed to have waged.
He, unabashed by the unexpected demand, with great presence of mind promptly invented a sweetheart on the spot, and extemporized a name for her before the question was repeated.
A man in Nebraska has invented a new powerful double-acting salve which shows powers never before exhibited by salves of any kind.
If the devil invented playing-cards, as more than once has been asserted, he was a very cosmopolitan devil; for cards have been used in every country whose people were intelligent enough to play with them.
He invented a rifling machine which was used for several years in the armory, and was regarded as an excellent piece of mechanism.
Hall, of the State of Maine, invented a breech-loading gun--probably the first of the kind manufactured.
He stood well with his comrades in regard to courage and loyalty, and it is possible that the tale was invented or greatly exaggerated by the mischievous youngsters of the neighborhood to tease the poor fellow.
The retreats were called "skedaddles," a term invented at the time by some wag.
Why, half of the newest contrivances of the day are so simple and obvious, that smart men, when they see them, want to shoot themselves for not having themselves invented them.
Countless generations ached seven or eight hours of every twenty-four, until a few years ago, when some oneinvented springy bottoms for beds.
Then a sort of Morse code is invented to communicate with the spirit entities, and the revelations begin.
No one knew either of their existence or of that of magnetic storms until instruments were invented suitably tuned to pick up the waves of energy and demonstrate them to one or other of man's special senses--sight, hearing or touch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invented" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
