It was uneven, irregular, and slowly ascending; but the young girl led the way with the free footstep of a mountaineer, and yet a grace that was akin to delicacy.
That effectual call led him to obey the special mandate to go forth to Canaan, and to believe the precious promise that had been made to him.
But though at the commencement of his exercises there was no gracious emotion felt by him, he was led by an overruling Providence to adopt means of seeking Divine favour which God should bless.
It presents instruction most solemnly to the young and rising race, led to inquire concerning it, "What mean ye by this service?
And to show that disobedience to this command would have led away from the exercise of avouching the Lord himself as a Covenant God, it is added, "Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
The Waldensian and Bohemian Churches--the forlorn hope of the Reformation, nobly led the way by Covenanting.
The events in the National Church of Scotland which have led to the separation from her communion, of the Protesting Church, and finally, the disruption itself, cannot be forgotten.
To the claims of its glorious Author, put forth by it, he was led by the most sure, and yet most gentle and delightful constraints, to give his acquiescence.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.
The children attended school, for their appearance during school hours led to investigations that the majority of the tenants preferred to avoid.
Confidences were gained that led to marriages and baptisms that had been neglected or forgotten.
At the end of two years discoveries were made that led the mission workers to question what was done with the supplies provided.
The Tammany influence was stronger than the Republican, and the women who had led in the incorporating of the club withdrew.
It was the reputation of this ward, and the record of the particular property, which doubtless led these capitalists to secure it.
It was the revelations the Settlement workers were able to make to a half-informed community of wealth and trained intelligence thatled to the redeeming of the city.
That the clean streets led to clean halls and cleaner homes was natural; and the further evolution meant clean characters, because of moral freedom to express opinion in a ballot cast at no man's command.
She led him into the big house, into a passage where his steps echoed.
And led by Him, he turned and faced the cold night wind, and made his toilsome way to the great dismal town where men are, and their misery.
The plant-louse herd led the way, and conducted the visitors into every part of it, even into the nurseries where the young larvae were creeping out of their cocoons.
Johannes gazed and waited, till the sun's disc touched the rim of the path of light which led up to him.
And the cruel grip led him down the echoing passage--the glass door slammed--and Johannes found himself outside, under the black driving clouds.
From Serravalle, which is the first village of the Republic on the road from Rimini, our way led uphill, through the vineyards and fields of corn which are the chief source of income to the diminutive state.
A flight of steps led down into the dark chapel, so little altered from the church which Francis built.
Little white bridges led from one green island to another, but the lush grass sloped so gradually to the clear waters that we could hardly tell where it first mingled with its own reflections.
Then with a blare of trumpets they passed on--knights in burnished armour with drawn swords, pages in silk and velvet with flowing cloaks and waving plumes, alfieri with proud banners, fantini riding slowly with their racers led behind.
The way was strewn with flowers, like all the paths of Umbria, and it led us through the undergrowth at the foot of the rock of Orvieto to the olive garden of the Mancini Necropolis.
The need of recognizing the importance of the interior led to concessions in the convention of 1776 in that state.
This led to a long struggle between coast and interior, terminated only when the slave population passed across the fall line, and more nearly assimilated coast and up-country.
Even when leaders like Wilkinson were attempting to induce Kentucky to act as an independent nation, the national spirit of the people as a whole led them to delay until at last they found themselves a State of the new Union.
The Middle West, led by Grant and Sherman, hewed its way down the Mississippi and across the Gulf States, and Lincoln could exult in 1863, "The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
France enlisted the support of frontiersmen led by George Rogers Clark for her attempted conquest of Louisiana in 1793.
Connecticut disposed of her reserved land about Lake Erie to companies, and in 1796 General Moses Cleaveland led the way to the site of the city that bears his name.
Some of them exempted the homestead from forced sale for debt; married women's legal rights were prominent topics in the debates of the conventions, and Wisconsin led off by permitting the alien to vote after a year's residence.
The closure of the Mississippi by Spain, and the proposal to exchange our claim of freedom of navigating the river, in return for commercial advantages to New England, nearly led to the withdrawal of the West from the Union.
The squatters of the Ohio Valley forced the passage of preëmption laws and these laws in their turn led to the homestead agitation.
But the boys all urged her to try it, and at last she allowed herself to beled out on the floor by Gladys.
Her strong, sure soprano led the girls through many a difficult passage which they could not have attempted without her help, and she taught them much about expression.
Where I have been led I now will lead others, Undimmed will I pass on The light I have kindled; The flame in my hand Shall mount higher and higher, To be a Torch Bearer Is now my desire!
Sahwah led the procession in the Keewaydin, uttering shouts which she fondly believed to be in imitation of an Indian warrior.
Bewildered, they turned back and Hinpoha left the main road and followed a narrow path that led into the woods.
She led them a wild chase all over the camp, over rocks and stumps, around trees and through puddles, then down on the dock.
There are scores of derelicts in this island who would have led happy and useful lives in the United States.
Dinville led him on, cautiously, tickling his vanity the while, and, before the meal was over, Stuart felt that he had found a friend.
On going ashore, without a word of explanation to the boy, Cecil led the way to a small hut, not far from the beach.
He passed into the open space back of the outer walls and set himself to climb the long flight of stone steps that led to the battlements, where, he thought, his fellow conspirators might be.
He led the way out of the office and to the elevator.
The two men turned away from the battlements to the steps which led down toward the dwelling rooms, and Manuel laid finger on lip.
Unlike other West Indian towns, where such a condition led to gaiety and pleasure, Fort Oranje retained its Dutch character.
Great flights of stone steps led up to it, while terrace upon terrace of what once were exquisitely kept gardens, filled with the finest statuary, stepped to the depths below.
Wednesday, May 7, opened one of the saddest and most terrorizing of the many days that led up to the final eruption.
To Stuart's eyes, the town was a town of dreams, of great stone staircases that led to nowhere, of high archways that gave upon a waste.
As philanthropists, the Stoics, through their passion for unity, were led to the extirpation of those emotions which nature intended as the chief springs of benevolence.
It is, I think, equally clear that no one could act consistently on such a principle without being led to consequences which in the common judgment of mankind are grossly and scandalously immoral.
It led most metaphysicians of that school to deny the duality of human nature.
Bishop Cumberland led the way, resolving virtue (like Hutcheson) into benevolence.
Very few Roman emperors ventured to disregard or to repress these outcries, and they led to the fall of several of the most powerful ministers of the empire.
It led Bonnet and Condillac to propose an animated statue, endowed with the five senses as channels of ideas, and with faculties exclusively employed in transforming the products of sensation, as a perfect representative of humanity.
It was examples of this nature that formed the culminations or ideals of ancient systems of virtue, and they naturally led men to draw a very clear and deep distinction between the notions of interest and of duty.
The habits of inactivity which the Imperial policy had produced, and which, through a desire for popularity, most emperors laboured to encourage, led to a profound disinclination for the hardships of military life.
Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode?
And the kindly old man led them to the farmhouse, where his wife simply said, "Puir lads," and soon provided for them a substantial meal.
On came the columns of Montcalm, firing and shouting in an inspiriting manner, led by their renowned leader in person.
They kept on in silence till they reached the outskirts of Bogden Woods, then they took one of the narrow, winding paths that led down through the thicket, crossed the stream at the bottom of the dell, and ascended the opposite hill-side.
A dozen men were quickly chosen, including the scout and the Panther, and they at once started out, led by the scout through the forest in the direction whence the French must soon come.
For some distance they followed the tree-lined road thatled away from the village.
They thanked God in that moment for all His preserving care, and especially that they were led to do that simple act of kindness to the great chief aboard the frigate.
The Indians were soon under cover on either side of the rough track which led to the fort.
Many suns have risen and set since 'Keneu,' the war-eagle of his tribe, led his people forth to battle.
This led Bois-Rose to the belief that his bullet had dismounted the rider.
After some moments of ecstatic contemplation, Cuchillo led his horse forward by the bridle, and having tied him to a tree, in a defile where the animal would be hidden from all eyes, he himself mounted the rock.
Don Estevan arose from his seat and made a sign to Cuchillo to accompany him into one of the dark alleys of the forest, the same by which the path entered that led to the hacienda.
Cuchillo alone--whose sanguinary and vindictive nature would have led him to accept gratuitously the odious office of executor--could scarcely conceal his delight at the thoughts of the enormous sum he was to receive for the wicked service.
This man was Cuchillo, the jackal, who, led by his evil destiny, had ventured to hunt on the ground of the lion.
While Cuchillo was advancing blindly to where his destiny led him, Don Estevan and Pedro Diaz were also on their way.
It was this:--`Your father was not killed by the Indians, as we were led to believe.
Don Augustin's two envoys took leave of their host, assuring him of a kind welcome, if ever his affairs led him in the direction of the Hacienda del Venado.
The adventurer had saddled his horse, and unseen by anybody had crossed the plain and again taken the road whichled to the Presidio of Tubac.
Besides the horse which he rode, the horseman led behind him another, saddled and bridled.
But through the wide forest tract which surrounded the hacienda a well-defined road led in the direction of the dwelling, which the travellers could follow even in the darkest night, and upon this road the cavalcade was now seen to enter.
As he finished this speech, the Canadian, leaning upon his long rifle, stood looking after the cavalcade, which was just disappearing into the forest road that led to the hacienda.
The oath ex officio, an oath to answer all questions, was originally meant for facts at issue, but had been extended by these courts to opinions, beliefs, and religion and had led to abuses.
This ledmany to regard their fellowship as a position for life rather than until they completed their post-graduate studies.
The gross features of the universe led to his recognition that the attraction between two bodies decreased inversely to the square of the distance between them.
They wereled by magistrates, country gentlemen, prominent businessmen, attorneys, and other professionals.
A majority of prosperous industrial towns and fee farmers, led sometimes by lords or old landed gentry were Puritans.
There experience fighting Spanish shipsled to improvements in ship design; building ships was no longer merely by copying another ship or a small model.
For proof of this, notice that children, old people, women, and fools take more delight than anyone else in holy and religious things, led no doubt solely by instinct.
In that battle, Drake and other experienced sea- fighters led two hundred English ships, of which about 20 were built to sink other ships rather than to board and capture them.
He was successful in preserving the peace with other nations and providing stability in England that led to prosperity.
She led the way by having herself and her son inoculated.
Elizabeth's experience led her to believe that it was most important for a monarch to have justice, temperance, magnanimity, and judgment.
As he spoke, Arnold's father appeared in sight, led by his grand-child, and feeling his way with a stick.
These three multitudes led the way in the crusades, pursuing the same route, that, namely, which leads through Hungary and Bulgaria toward Asia Minor.
It is said that the first band, consisting of twenty thousand foot, with only eight horsemen, were led by a Burgundian gentleman, called Walter the Penniless.
The galleys led the way, and in their van rode three of the four great galliasses, thrashing the sea to foam with three hundred oars apiece.
The force opposed to this great multitude consisted of only three thousand men; but of these, nearly one thousand were English, and all were led by English officers and trained in the English discipline.
The fifteen thousand Germans led by Gottschalk never reached Constantinople, being slaughtered or dispersed during their passage through Hungary.
He led the army to Palestine and defeated the Saracens, but failed to follow up his victory, and soon after abandoned the enterprise.
Asses and horses were led into the churches to carry off the spoil.
The quarrels of Templars and Hospitallers led to a pitched battle in 1259, in which almost all the Templars were slain.
Different leaders had notions inconsistent with each other, and divided councils led to indecisive action.
They were followed by a rabble of forty thousand men, women, and children, led by Peter the Hermit, a medley of all nations and languages.
They were led by Mabel into another apartment, where accommodation was provided for those who desired to improve their toilet with such additions as soap and water and a certain amount of vigorous brushing could afford.
He led her into one of the cottages where, in the kitchen, lay a woman evidently in the last stage of consumption.
I would like to tell you about it because of what it has led me to do, and because I would like you to feel as I do, if, as you say, you have never felt it.
Looking up, she saw them approaching straight along the path that led past the flowerbeds.
The career of a mere rake, who shuns no means of gratifying his low appetites, has little analogy with that of an originally honest inquirer, led astray by the want of faith and his sensual nature.
The officials of the island led an easy life, therefore.
Faustus was one of those whom a passion for inquiry, in league with a powerful, sensual nature, led astray.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "led" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
