In North America, the Pere le Jeune found that a kind of thought reading was practised thus: it was believed that a sick person had certain desires, if these could be gratified, he would recover.
We need not doubt that sorcery and the consultation of the dead were being practised all through the classical period, indeed we know that it was so.
This is still practised in some parts of the Highlands, as we shall see, but, near Inverness, the custom only survives in the memory of some old people.
Rigid of muscle, and suspicious of mind by nature, he brings to his aid the advantages of practised art, to bear him out in speaking for his tribe, and to quit him manfully of his task by uttering sentiments worthy of them and of himself.
A new mode of navigation, to me at least, was to be tried, and it was evidently one which the best practised and stoutest-hearted men by no means relished.
Oh, Rosa knew her charms, and had practised many a day before her mirror till she had appraised the value of every curving eyelash, every hidden dimple, every cupid's curve of lip.
After the arrival of the piano the play went forward with great strides, for now Margaret accompanied some of the parts with the music, and the flute and violin were also practised in their elfin dance with much better effect.
The truly gallant Captain being more practised in exploring than in writing, Mr Blackwood suggested his going home with Dr Burton, that he might have the benefit of his advice in the formation of his materials into a book.
He took an air of serious protection towards Mrs. Elmore, and often gave her advice, while he practised an easy gallantry with Lily, and ignored Elmore altogether.
No stranger need fear any of the tricks ordinarily practised upon travellers in Vienna.
Notwithstanding all his well-practised agility, and in spite of the good aid of his long staff, he more than once was soused head over ears in a broad water-course.
He could not, if he would, have practised those seductive arts by which Rufus Choate drew the jury into his net, in spite of their deliberate intentions to the contrary.
In what is called the model-room are numbers of figures and busts designed by the practised hand of the brother alluded to.
But this we relate perhaps without sufficient authority; although cannibalism at least is said to be a Scythian custom, and the Celts, the Iberians, and other peoples are reported to have practised it under the stress of a siege.
The Norwegians are the first people in history who definitely abandoned the coast-sailing universally practised before their time, and who took navigation away from the coasts and out on to the ocean.
This appears also from his narrative, for men who were not well practised could not kill sixty of these large animals in a couple of days, even if we are to suppose that they were killed with lances on land where they lie in big herds.
Fish poaching is practised none the less for the high preservation and stricter watching which is so characteristic of the times.
Ferreting is mostly practised in winter; and it is to guard against such occasions as these that working ferrets are generally muzzled.
This it does for the purpose of concealment, a proceeding which is sometimes practised by the woodcock.
We shall detail it as practisedin the extensive Honeybee Woods.
Throughout summer fish are in season, but the really serious poaching is practised during close time.
This is done by almost innumerable nets, and is usually practised at the mouths of rivers and generally without the slightest regard to the economy of the fish supply.
It has been practised for centuries, and perhaps nowhere with greater success than in our own country.
This kind of fowling was mainly practised on flight ponds near the coast, especially in the south-eastern counties.
In neither of them can I ascend or descend with my arms, which must be handed to me, step by step, as practised by the Maroons themselves.
The Romans adhered to their mode, nor is it entirely out of use at the present day, being revered for its antiquity, admired for its beauty, and practised for its convenience.
There can be little doubt that no deceit is practised by the government, so far as the drawing is concerned,--for it would be nearly impossible to employ it.
They spoke English diluted with Spanish and African words, and practised Obeah rites quite undiluted with Christianity.
Here, then, Emily Bronte has succeeded; and girl as she was when she wrote, she has succeeded where some of the most practised writers have failed entirely.
She had formed her own conception of Charlotte Bronte's character, and with the passion of the true artist and the ability of the practised writer she made everything bend to that conception.
I have practised the organ so steadily, that on my return to Leipzig I purpose giving an organ concert there, and I think that my pedal playing is now very tolerable.
I practised hard for eight days previously, till I could really scarcely stand upright, and nothing was heard all day long in my street but organ passages!
Among other modes of divinationpractised for the same purpose, there is one by the crowing of the cock.
This custom, practised in many parts of England on New Year's Day, is called "Dipping.
Among some of the many charms in which the shoe has been found efficacious, may be mentioned one practised in the North of England, where the peasantry, to cure cramp, are in the habit of laying their shoes across to avert it.
To snuff out a candle accidentally is a sign of matrimony, and a curious mode of divination is still practised by means of a pin and a candle.
In a previous chapter we have already shown how numerous are the divinationspractised in love affairs, and what an importance is attached to them by the maiden bent on ascertaining her lot in the marriage state.
Another curious custom which was once practised in different parts of the country was that of the elder sister dancing in a hog's trough in consequence of the younger sister marrying before her.
As practised at the present day, this mode of divination differs in various counties.
Many of the charms practised in an accident of this kind are of a semi-religious character, and of a not very reverent form.
This ancient rite was formerly known as the "Trick of the Sieve and Scissors," and was generally practised among the Greeks for ascertaining crime.
This dance was not merely a local custom, but practised in other towns.
They frequently met again next day; and being mostly young people, and from under restraint, practised social plays and sports.
There is in America no especial song of the festival, though children at the May parties of which we have spoken still keep up the "springing and leaping" which mediaeval writers speak of aspractised by them at this occasion.
I measured in the selfsame way I have seenpractised by a child.
This game is played all over Europe with similar formulas; but we are not aware that the "back-saddling" feature has been practised out of England and America.
At this very moment, for instance, after having practised stumping about the room for half-an-hour he insisted on going downstairs.
No clue is given to the author of this story, but it is marked on every page by evidence of a practised pen, of great dramatic power, of experienced judgment of character, and of rare powers of description.
The French threw a body of light troops into the wood, which was disputed from tree to tree, the close fire of the sharpshooters on both sides resembling that of a general chasse, such as ispractised on the continent.
To parry this pressing danger, Napoleon had recourse to a plan, which, had it beenpractised the year before, might have placed the affairs of Spain on a very different footing.
With such results terminated an act of despotic authority, one of the most impolitic, as well as unpopular, practised by Buonaparte during his reign.
At Mount Vernon he practised on a large scale the hospitality for which the Southern planters have ever been distinguished.
His troops, practised in frequent skirmishes with the Swedes quartered in Ingria and Livonia, rapidly improved, and on the celebrated field of Pultowa broke forever the power of Charles XII.
The first is, that when amusements are practised by many persons in common it appears unsociable and ungracious to abstain.
It is very generally believed that literature and the fine arts can be happily practised as amusements.
People were aware that tolerance and forbearance ought to be exercised towards guests, and so, to avoid the hard necessity of exercising these qualities when they were really difficult virtues, they practised what is called exclusiveness.
It was uttered with long-practised professional eloquence, it was backed by a lofty social position, aided by a peculiar and dignified costume, and mightily aided also by the architecture of a magnificent cathedral.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
