Mrs. Passmore slipped her hand affectionately through Frances's arm, and led her across the wide hall to another cool and small apartment where covers were already placed for two.
Frances placed her hand to her fast-beating heart.
So Monsieur the Viscount dragged his pallet away from the toad, placed another stone by it, and removed the pitcher; and then, wearied with his efforts, lay down and slept heavily.
He thought that he had abundance of the most tempting food and cooling drinks, butplaced just beyond his reach.
Then when she descended to tea she placed them securely in the box under some more of her own for the seven-o'clock post, and went her way rejoicing.
She placed her two with the rest, and turned to leave the hall.
She was a well-bred servant, and silentlyplaced the kettle and glass and left the room noiselessly.
Lord Bracondale had so placedhis guests that he himself faced Theodora, and the lady had her back turned to her.
This is an excellent example of the confidence which may be placed in Mr. Gosse's assertions.
Nor is there anything to justify the interpretation placed on Sonnets xxxiii.
This is an excellent illustration of the confidence which may be placed in Mr. Saintsbury's assertions about works on which most of his readers must take what he says on trust.
The famous lines in Hamlet, placed in the mouth of the Ghost, are cited to prove his belief in purgatory; the comical penances imposed on Biron and his friends in Love's Labour Lost to prove his belief in penance.
Rhesus monkey; but when a young drill and mandrill were placed in the cage she seemed to perceive that these monkeys, though distinct species, were her nearer relatives, for she at once rejected the Rhesus and adopted both of them.
I took up the chip on which the three I have particularly described were struggling, carried it into my house, and placed it under a tumbler on my window-sill, in order to see the issue.
But Wordsworth would never have had any great effect on me, if he had merely placedbefore me beautiful pictures of natural scenery.
We are rather of opinion that these delinquencies are products of the average English character placed under special conditions.
But a savage, as well as a dog, would search in the same way, though frequently disappointed, and in both it seems to be equally an act of reason, whether or not any general proposition on the subject is consciously placed before the mind.
How are you likely to have agreeable converse with the gentleman who is fuming internally because he is not placed next to the hostess?
Given beings of this kind, placed on a globe of such diversified surface and climate as this, and it is evident that, even with equal capacity, and an equal start, social development must be very different.
Suppose that an adult man, in the full vigour of his faculties, could be suddenly placed in the world, as Adam is said to have been, and then left to do as he best might.
I then placed the stuffed specimen on the ground in one of the larger compartments.
I then placed a live snake in a paper bag, with the mouth loosely closed, in one of the larger compartments.
Some water was placed in the two vessels prepared as before.
But the armies of Rome, placed at a secure distance from danger, were enervated by indulgence and luxury.
They placed their new sovereign, whom they served and despised, in the centre of their ranks, surrounded him on every side with their shields, and conducted him in close order of battle through the deserted streets of the city.
The slingers and archers skirmished in the front; the auxiliaries formed the first line, and were seconded or sustained by the strength of the legions; the cavalry covered the flanks, and the military engines were placed in the rear.
They loved him as a tender pupil, whom they had saved from a tyrant's fury, and placed on the Imperial throne.
His professions might be sincere; but in the situation where fortune had placed him, it was scarcely possible that he could either forgive or be forgiven.
But whatever confidence might be placed in ideal ramparts, the experience of the past, and the dread of the future, induced the Romans to construct fortifications of a grosser and more substantial kind.
A faithful picture, however, which preceded his arrival, and was placed by his immediate order over the altar of Victory in the senate house, conveyed to the Romans the just but unworthy resemblance of his person and manners.
On that inhospitable shore, Euripides, embellishing with exquisite art the tales of antiquity, hasplaced the scene of one of his most affecting tragedies.
It is in those regions that the legends and traditions of the times placed the islands from which King Solomon derived the gold and other treasures that served for the decoration of the temple of Jerusalem.
It will be noticed that Gilolo is now placed in its correct position, twenty degrees to the west of where it was placed before in Ribero's map.
The question as to who first sighted Australia, and placed on record such discovery, either in the shape of map or narrative, will, in all probability, ever remain a mystery.
We may be presumptuous enough, nevertheless, to hold up that much-quoted candle, but the light from it will burn pale and dim when placed near the golden glow of the past.
It is among the blessed privileges which help to make life cheerful and sunny, for, when all is said, what would be the joy of existence if we might not criticise those whom Providence has placed above us.
As he fell, it will be remembered, the King placed his crown upon the head of Andromache.
As Chetwood well said, "Pyrrhus in the 'Distressed Mother' placed him in the seat of Tragedy, and Cato fixed him there.
He never placed a wedding-ring upon a finger of this young woman, but he gave her his protection after the death of the baronet's daughter, and continued to do so until the fragile creature ran off with a craven fellow named Minshull.
Footnote 22: That is to say, he reflected the beam of polarized light by a mirror placed at that angle.
He sent a current of air into a condenser placedin a magnetic field, and was never able to notice the slightest trace of electrification.
Madame Curie discovered as early as 1899 that every substance placed in the neighbourhood of radium, itself acquired a radioactivity which persisted for several hours after the removal of the radium.
The action of the earth on the unit of mass placed in one point, and the intensity of gravity, is measured, as we know, by the aid of a pendulum.
The impacts will be more active in the event of the gas being placed in a field of force and of the pressure being slight, the speed attained being then greater and allowing the active force to reach a high value.
That the reality of this transport has beenplaced beyond dispute by means of an extremely elegant experiment which is all the more convincing that it is so very simple, is due to M.
Thomson shows that if, in certain conditions, a conductor isplaced in a magnetic field, the ions have to describe an epicycloid, and their journey is thus lengthened, while the electric resistance must increase.
In the interior of this vase is placed a small copper ring, and the whole is set in a magnetic field.
The feeling of home, which had hitherto centred entirely in his family, still centred there, but gained enormously in richness from the surroundings in which he had placed them.
Thus, unsought as it were, there was placed within Chang Tao's grasp a staff that might haply bear his weight into the very presence of Melodious Vision herself.
As the colours were still in a receptive state this person placed it safely aside for the time.
Then without another word he placed the man-child in her arms and led her back into the house.
An even more ignominious end may await Fang, should he escape drowning, for, conveniently placed by the side of the stream, this person has introduced a spreading willow-tree.
Moving without discomfort to themselves before nightfall they reached a small but seemly cottage conveniently placed upon the mountain-side.
Yet how comes it, O stranger, that having been admitted to Kha-hia's innermost council you now betray his trust, or how can reliance be placed upon the word of one so treacherous?
But if such robes are of so dubious a nature how can reliance be placed on any one?
With these words he beat furiously on a gong, and summoning the entire household he commanded that before Weng should be placed a jar of wine and two glass vessels, and on the other side a staff and a pair of sandals.
The wayside fountain must one day dry up at its source, but until then not even a mountainplaced upon its mouth can pen back its secret stores.
Or," continued the accommodating recluse, "you have in some other way placedso formidable an obligation upon one now in the Beyond that his disturbed spirit can no longer endure the burden.
Yet how can reliance be spontaneously placed upon so incredible a claim?
The clay enterprise of Wong Ts'in took upon itself an added lustre, and in order to deal adequately with so vast an undertaking the grateful merchant adopted Wei Chang and placed him upon an equal footing with himself.
They are placedon the ground, just out of the water or on floating vegetation.
Mr. Frazer found the nest of this Duck in Labrador usually placed upon the out-reaching branches of stunted spruces, which are seldom higher than four feet.
The nest of the Black Duck is placed on the ground, in grass or rushes in the neighborhood of ponds, pools, and streams, in meadows and sometimes in swamps.
No obstacle was to be placed on the commerce between the two countries.
Here Erik one day saw her, then about thirteen, and was so struck by her great beauty that he had her placed among the maids-of-honor of his sister Elizabeth.
A born plotter, old Jönsson kept at his work, and to prevent any news of what was taking place from reaching the king, a guard of a thousand men was placed to watch the highway and stop all messengers.
All around him the warriors shouted their war-cry, and while they ran for their weapons he put on his armor, seized his sword and shield, and placed on his head a golden helmet that shone brightly in the sun.
One hundred of his men were placed in ambush in a clump of woodland, and with the remaining three hundred the Swedish leader marched boldly on the enemy, who were entrenched behind a line of wagons.
Two candlesticks of gold were placed before him by the ambassadors.
When he came out he led a big goat, on which he had placed the saddle.
Sigbrit, a detestable favorite, who had given him much evil counsel and dared not show herself to the enraged people, was carried on board in a chest and placed among his valuables.
He had placed them far apart, so that when the Danes saw the waving banners it looked like a long line of new troops coming upon them.
He referred briefly to the fact that the breeders of the Kingdom had been circularised on the subject, but omitted to support his enquiry by any analysis of the very important and valuable mass of expert opinion thus placed at his disposal.
Passing mention may be made of an Act which was placed on the Statute Book in 1396.
It bears the date 1530, when the picture was placed in the church of S.
Iron wheels were made, bound with sharp razors, and she was placed between these while they were turned in opposite directions.
Great was her surprise to find that the stone placed at the entrance of the tomb had been rolled away.
After the destruction of this church it wasplaced in the Cathedral for safety.
Heman stepped into the house for his bass-viol, and brought it out with an extremity of tender care; he placed it, enveloped in its green baize covering, in the bottom of the pung.
Rosa bent suddenly forward, and placed the package in Dilly's lap.
His son, the Marquis de Rosny, had received the post of grand master of artillery, and placed himself at its head.
It was important for the States-General to show that they were not crippled, and would not shrink from the coming conflict, but would justify the reliance placed on them by their allies.
The Dutch ambassadors, "recognising and relying upon no superiors but God and their sword," placed themselves according to seniority with the representatives of proudest kings.
Van der Myle had been the first ambassador to the great Venetian republic, and was now placed at the head of the embassy to France, an office which it was impossible at that moment for the Advocate to discharge.
He placed his arm round the girl's waist, and, drawing her head on to his shoulder, met with a blank stare the troubled gaze of Mrs. Green.
Mr. Green and the dealer parted a little at his approach, and after widening the parting with the bureau he placed it in the front room while he went back for the chairs.
The dealer, who had just placed the bureau on the tail-board of the van, came back wiping his brow with his sleeve.
The baronet folded the document and placed it in his pocket.
The seventeen Germans showed no great enthusiasm at being placed on board the tramp.
Zeebrugge, which, eighteen days previously, had gone to search for the derelict "Golden Hind" and had placed Sir Reginald Fosterdyke on board.
In the navigation-room, being placed right for'ard, the jerky motion of the fuselage that was noticeable in Kenyon's cabin was greatly exaggerated.
Fosterdyke slowly and deliberately unstrapped his wristlet watch and placed it on the table.
If a glass cylinder holding about half a gill is filled to about two-thirds its height, and the gauge is then placed in the cylinder, the quantity of sugar in the sirup will be registered on the gauge.
If this gauge is placed in pure water the bulb will rest on the bottom of the cylinder or other container.
This boundary was another triumph for the Loyalists, as it placed in New Brunswick Fort Cumberland and the greater part of Cumberland county.
Jonathan Boucher tells us that he was compelled to preach with loaded pistols placed on the pulpit cushions beside him.
They had beenplaced under the ban of the law: the payment of their debts had been denied them; and they had been forbidden to return to their native land under penalty of death without benefit of clergy.
He established a settlement for them at Machiche, near Three Rivers, which he placed under the superintendence of a compatriot and a protege of his named Conrad Gugy.
Frenchman under whom the Loyalists were placedat 'Mishish.
As soon as the settlers had been placed on the townships to which they had been assigned, they received their allotments of land.
These disadvantages at which out-of-town buyers are sometimes placed might be overcome by using the Exchange.
You have placed armed men in your shops without a justifiable cause.
Warrington put the letter away, placedit carefully among the few things he held of value.
She placed a hand on her forehead, swayed, and closed her eyes for a second.
At the shops the men had placed the usual sentinels around the limits, ready to repel the expected army of non-union workmen.
He placed the great key in the lock and swung the gates inward.
He drew out a chair from under the office table and placed it close to the door.
Warrington went into the music-room, placed his hat on the piano, and idled about impatiently.
He laid the letter on the desk, and placed a finger on the water-mark.
Never was such a happy dinner as these affectionate parents sat down to with their young guests, though their feelings could scarcely allow either of them to partake of what was placed before them.
The chimney-pots were shut up with sods placed on them, and the fireplaces poured volumes of smoke into the rooms and nearly choked him.
There was a great reduction of the army at the end of the war, and the Scudamores were both placed upon half pay.
The fact of a gigantic footpad being in the neighborhood was alarming for all, and nervous people were already having great bolts and bars placed upon their shutters and doors.
These had been fastened to the raft, and were now hastily untied and placed in the canvas bag.
They had now leisure to look round and examine their position, and a glance was sufficient to show how great was the peril in which General Craufurd's obstinacy had placed his little force.
The news soon spread, and the boys were heartily congratulated by all the officers of the regiment on their promotion, which placed them next on the list to Carruthers, who had previously been the junior lieutenant.
In the case of Ciudad, however, there were outside the place two elevated plateaux, called the great and small Teson: Guns placed on these could look down upon Ciudad, and could therefore easily breach the walls.
The Spanish loss by dispersion and flight was no less than 4000 men, and the whole army would have been broken up had not General Sherbrooke advanced with his division, and placed it between the French and the flying Spaniards.
By this movement they were placed upon the right flank of Francheschi, the general who commanded the advanced division of the French army.
The Spaniards were placed with their right resting upon Talavera, their left upon a mound whereon a large field-redoubt was constructed.
The guerilla furiously drew a pistol; but Garcias placedhimself between him and Tom.
No one noticed the boys as they passed between the groups and approached the band, who were mustering by the colors, which were as usual placed in front of the guard tent.
He poorly tolerated the burdens added to the yoke of the fugitive slave--the premium placed upon bondage rather than freedom.
With discernment he placed his hand on the mischief, the creation of an aristocracy in a republic; the resulting conflict between the doctrine of the fathers and that of the children; between the North and the South.
Two or three seized hold of me and placed me on the eminence amid shouts of the friends of the canal.
Not content with this, without consent or consultation, they placed Lincoln's name on the list of their State Central Committee.
Soon a fence rail was slipped into the worn fence near by and a wash tub turned up and placed upon it.
Above it, he placedloyalty to the Constitution and the fathers of the country.
On one occasion Lincoln placed certain reflections on the Grigsby family where they could be readily discovered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
