Iphigeneia reads the letter to him; it is addressed to Orestes and tells of his sister's weary exile.
Phaedrus reads a paradoxical speech supposed to be written by Lysias, the famous orator, on Love; Socrates replies in a speech quite as unreal, praising as Lysias did him who does not love.
It is vigorous and reads almost like an English work.
His mother readsto him mostly all the time when the baby is quiet.
I foresee, in the future, some stony-hearted Indian hater, scowling while he reads this mention of sentiment and feeling on the part of Indians.
At last the adjutant reads the following short paper from the forty million, to the four men on the scaffold; the two men in the wagon.
Away up in Umatilla, a young man, who has been bowed down with grief over a second great bereavement, this morning reads to the little orphans that climb on his knees, and their widowed mother, the telegram signed by Capt.
The two return, and the professor, with faltering voice reads the despatch: "Canby and Thomas killed.
After any one has been to Finland, hereads the Kalevala with amazement.
Taking the meerschaum from his mouth, he returns her look--almost shuddering as his eyes meet hers, and he reads in them a glance such as might have been given by Messalina, or the murderess of Duncan.
In addition she reads no end of novels, her favourites being those which tell of Cupid in his most romantic escapades and experiences, though not always the chastest.
Nor has she; but reads on, devouring volume after volume, in triunes as they issue from the press, and are sent her from the Circulating Library.
The lawyer's letterreads as follows: 'I have read "Stirring Times in Austria.
Why, it's a romance; it's like the impossible things one reads about in books, and never sees in life.
Aglaüs Bouvenne, to so divide the name that it reads as though M.
Io: Grollierii et amicorum reads as a very pretty and unselfish sentiment, but it requires some explanation.
And so long as the world lasts, every man who reads the New Testament, whether saint or sinner, will be penetrated with the conviction that a vain, aspiring, selfish spirit is incompatible with the religion of Jesus.
Archbishop Langton reads to them Henry I's charter: and each swears on the high altar to make war on John unless he gives them the liberties contained therein (Roger of Wendover, vol.
The inscription is broken, but in fullreads thus: "Sigillum Samsonis Dei Gratia Abbatis Sancti Eadmundi.
She reads them all through," said Hugh, "always, though she reads them very quick.
His name reads like the title of some old-fashioned novel--"Timothy Winn, or the Memoirs of a Bashful Gentleman.
But every soldier who reads this will say that this is honest and the whole truth.
Everybody readsit now, and everybody takes it, I believe.
Mostly she lies by the fire and either dozes orreads her French novels.
Whoever reads Froissart needs to remember that the old chronicler is too much enamored of chivalry, and is too easily dazzled by splendor of rank, to be a rigidly just censor of faults committed by knights and nobles and kings.
The whole letter reads like some learned Puritan divine's composition.
One of the stories which excited the most amusement reads very tamely divested of the slang and manner of the story-teller.
The blank, straightforward manner in which he reads on comes to be impressive in its singularity after a time.
And here were none of those traces of feminine presence which one reads of in books--no pretty things, no flowers, no embroideries, nothing to cast a grace upon the dulness.
The Secretary of War, sometimes moved by private reasons, or more likely to oblige the member of Congress, grants the order, of which the commanding general knows nothing till he reads it in the newspapers.
Such a victim of induced belief reads of a stone ball said to have fallen from the sky.
One reads in the newspapers of hailstones the size of hens' eggs.
Fenn erroneously reads 'in person' instead of 'in preson' in the previous sentence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
