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Example sentences for "recognised"

Lexicographically close words:
recognisable; recognisably; recognisance; recognisances; recognise; recognises; recognising; recognition; recognitions; recognizable
  1. Though she recognised the extent of her misery, she did not complain of it.

  2. This was Bridget Bolster, but he would by no means have recognised her.

  3. This was all very well from Sir Peregrine in the existing case; but he was not a man who by any means recognised the necessity of being civil to all who lived near him.

  4. Indeed there is no branch of the Common Law in which he was not regarded as great and powerful, though perhaps his proficiency in damaging the general characters of his opponents has been recognised as his especial forte.

  5. Hitherto she had thought only of herself, and had hardly recognised it as a fact that he could be thoroughly in earnest.

  6. Those practices in which we most widely depart from the broad and recognised morality of all civilised ages and countries are to us the Palladiums of our jurisprudence.

  7. It would of course be impossible that she should not be recognised in the court, but she would do as little as possible to proclaim her own presence.

  8. She herself had said but little about it, uttering but few thanks; but not the less had she recognised the value of what had been done for her.

  9. He dashed at Mrs. Norton; but, as Frank turned, the game brute recognised the more dangerous adversary, and with a fierce grunt charged savagely at him.

  10. He recognised in her assailant the pock-marked officer of the Amban.

  11. But in Wargrave she had already recognised a companion, a playmate, one to whom music, art and poetry appealed as they did to her.

  12. From the first she had recognised the pock-marked, one-eyed leader of the gang as the Amban's officer, and so had known who was the author and cause of her abduction.

  13. He hardly recognised her in the gay social butterfly with seemingly never a care in the world; and she made him wonder every day if she had any love left for him or wanted him to have any for her.

  14. Now she recognised the reason why she was wounded by the attention of all.

  15. Coming nearer, however, he recognised him at once in spite of the twilight, and, a little confused with pleasure, stretched out his hand.

  16. My eye thirsted for the sight of her but in my memory there was no mark by which I could have recognised her.

  17. If he recognised the poisonous fruits, it was all over with her plan.

  18. Poor Frank Stone recognised me at Suez, and begged me to come with him on the engine.

  19. They recognised Number 666, however, (perhaps by his bearing), and gave him only a passing glance of indifference.

  20. The woman stood between two lamps in the darkest place she could find, but enough of light reached her to glitter in the baby's solemn eyes as they met her gaze, and it made a pitiful attempt to smile as it recognised its mother.

  21. Excuse me, I do not of course refer to its real value, but to its recognised restaurant-value!

  22. I knew North well, and recognised your son at once.

  23. Sammy put it on with some difficulty from want of practice, and, after combing out and brushing his hair, he presented such a changed appearance that none of his late companions could have recognised him.

  24. He had once been a comrade of Ned Frog, but had become so very respectable that his old chum scarcely recognised him.

  25. Another visitor was the pretty little Cape pigeon, which Kate recognised as an old friend and was delighted to see.

  26. I recognised your honour the moment you came on deck that morning of the storm in the Bay of Biscay.

  27. Subsequently a real funeral passes the same way, and is recognised as the fulfilment of the omen.

  28. Sometimes it is a plain tallow 'dip' in the hand of a ghost, and when the ghost is seen distinctly it is recognised as the ghost of some person yet living, who will now soon die.

  29. Betty instantly recognised her voice, and ventured to turn herself round from the wall.

  30. He had not slept long when he was aroused by a strange noise, and looking up recognised the ghost of his departed grandfather.

  31. The shepherd immediately recognised this to be the tune Iolo had played at the mouth of the Ogof.

  32. Germany has herself recognised that her attack constitutes a violation of international law, and being unable to justify it, she has pleaded her strategical interests.

  33. Once in a while somebody who recognised the flag would give it a cheer on its own account, and we got a smile everywhere.

  34. The Belgian outposts received us with levelled rifles, but when we got near, one of the officers recognised me through his glasses, and we got through without any more trouble.

  35. It was the first time the fact that all three recognised had been put into words, and a faint flush mantled Eveline Annersly's cheeks.

  36. Her reason recognised that he was right, and there was nothing he could do; but, for all that, he had been her last faint hope, and he had failed her.

  37. Well, perhaps that was the reason, though I would sooner believe it was because I recognised what I owed the State.

  38. The patient beasts that toiled with him recognised it, and again one of them muzzled his shoulder and caught at his arm.

  39. He leant upon the table, as though he had nothing more to say, and Carrie recognised that he did not mean to tell her what had led up to the outbreak.

  40. A man came up, and she recognised him as Gallwey.

  41. Almost at the last minute Wakefield hove in sight, cheery and smiling as of yore, having in tow a bearded, greatcoated individual whom Meredith recognised as "Tough Geordie Morpeth.

  42. Meredith smiled at the noise, for he recognised amongst others the voices of some of his own men.

  43. Entwistle recognised him at once, in spite of the fact that he wore civilian clothes.

  44. Corporal, as the two men now gained their side and pulled up; and Walter recognised the faces he had marked in the ale-house.

  45. As he so gazed, he observed in a field at some little distance, three or four persons gathered around a bank, and among them he thought he recognised the comely form of Rowland Lester.

  46. And at that instant Ivan Ilyitch recognised that if there was one being in the whole world whom he need not fear, and before whom he need not feel ashamed, it was that old lady.

  47. He recognised her, but could give no logical explanation of her presence beside him.

  48. He recognised with painful clearness that he would have, at all costs, to exchange into another department; that he could not possibly remain where he was after all that had happened that evening.

  49. If once one has recognised the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be, whether you are asleep or awake.

  50. With bitterness and a secret soreness of heart he recognised now and again that he did not fly so high as he imagined.

  51. Hugh recognised him at once as Vallance Nestor, an author of great brilliance--in his own eyes--who had lately devoted himself to the advancement of revolutionary labour.

  52. He recognised me; whether he thinks I recognised him or not, I don't know.

  53. I happen to know something about miniatures, and, to my horror, I recognised them.

  54. They saw the different regiments with their colours, and recognised many of their friends among the Highlanders.

  55. John Wesley, in his account published many years after date in his Arminian Magazine, attributed the affair of 1716 to his father's broken vow of deserting his mother till she recognised the Prince of Orange as king!

  56. Bacon calls it "sympathy" between two distant minds, sympathy so strong that one communicates with the other without using the recognised channels of the senses.

  57. From the description he recognised Mr. Perceval, with whom he was at enmity.

  58. He recognised the description, and he accompanied her to the church on a dark night, starting at one o'clock.

  59. Here it may be remarked that apparitions in haunted houses are very seldom recognised as those of dead persons, and, when recognised, the recognition is usually dubious.

  60. It is not inconceivable that living minds may communicate by some other channel than that of the recognised senses.

  61. Six weeks later, Mr. Williams went to town, and in the House of Commons walked up to and recognised the scene of the various incidents in the murder.

  62. Once more, if a hallucinatory figure is afterwards recognised in a living person previously unknown, or a portrait previously unseen, that (if the recognition be genuine) is a veracious hallucination.

  63. On first beholding the spectre in his room, the seer recognised Sir George's costume, then antiquated.

  64. The story of the lady who often dreamed of a house, and when by chance she found and rented it was recognised as the ghost who had recently haunted it, is good, but is an invention!

  65. He was recognised at once as Kallum Beg, a Turk of distinction, but who at times had to be treated as a madman.

  66. Loud were their shouts of triumph, and Jack recognised the countenance of Abdullah, lit up by a savage satisfaction.

  67. He was walking through the streets and bazaars of the town, Jack on one side of him, Harry on the other, though the reader, at first glance, would probably not have recognised any of them.

  68. None of his friends could now have recognised Jack Harkaway.

  69. With this, they looked about, and Jack, with a sinking at heart, recognised the two eunuchs again.

  70. The waggoner looked over his shoulder and recognised Lenoir.

  71. Beside him rode the officer in command of his squadron, and another young man, in whom, although dressed in red fez and Turkish uniform, Jack recognised Herbert Murray.

  72. In the front were a body of troops, in Turkish uniform, led by the captain of the guard by whose side could be recognised the sinister countenance of Abdullah.

  73. Ibrahim immediately recognised a fresh and imminent danger, and resolved on a retreat.

  74. His heart beat with joy as he recognised the handwriting, and he hurried home to read it.

  75. At the same moment, he recognised the green and yellow-striped turban on the head of the Turk.

  76. The same plan of proceeding was observed, for, although we recognised them immediately it appeared that they did not recognise us.

  77. Could he have recognised me," thought Dick; "or was it his manner only?

  78. You recognised me that night of the ball.

  79. It was covered with stones and branches of trees, which I removed, and I immediately recognised it to be that of a poor man who used to work not far from my own claim.

  80. This, however, did not surprise our hero, who recognised the man to be a Sandwich Islander whom he had met before in the village, and whose powers of diving were well-known to the miners.

  81. The gold had been discovered hid near the Chinaman's tent, and the bag containing it was recognised and sworn to by at least a dozen of the diggers as that belonging to the man from whom the gold had been stolen.

  82. It is a recognised rule here, that if a man, in a row, should merely make a motion with his hand towards his pistol, his opponent is entitled to shoot him first if he can.

  83. On looking more fixedly at him, he recognised the young porter who had carried up the box to the merchant's house.

  84. His equivocal personages are not always recognised in this travesty of their Roman masquerade.

  85. They were of different magnitude, and in the scroll of their names some have been recognised by posterity.

  86. Spenser still remained the poet among poets themselves; though for the world at large, indeed, Spenser seemed to be recognised only as a poet in the chronology of poetry.

  87. When Elizabeth ascended the throne, there was yet no recognised "public" in the commonwealth; the people were mere fractional and incoherent parts of society.

  88. He was a singular being who is recognised without his name.

  89. It obviously follows that the more punishment is inflicted the more crime is produced, and most modern legislation has clearly recognised this, and has made it its task to diminish punishment as far as it thinks it can.

  90. The granular movement is often quite as clear in the sarcodictyum itself, and may be recognised in the collopodia, which compose the irregular plasmatic network within the calymma.

  91. Such constant currents may, however, be recognised both near the bottom of the sea and at various depths, as well as at the surface, and are therefore of just as much significance for the abyssal and zonarial as for the pelagic Radiolaria.

  92. The genus Thalassoplancta was founded by me in 1862 for a Radiolarian with simple hollow needles in the calymma, which was afterwards recognised as a Phaeodarium, belonging to Cannorrhaphis.

  93. In Bohemia, in 1609, the Estates extorted from Rudolph the Royal Charter (Majestaetts brief) which guaranteed freedom of conscience to every inhabitant of Bohemia, as long as he kept to certain recognised creeds.

  94. The Edict of Nantes had recognised some hundreds of the country houses of the aristocracy, and certain cities and towns, as places where the reformed religious doctrines might be preached without interference.

  95. And thus much at least will by-and-by come to be recognised generally.

  96. This when once recognised must be evident enough.

  97. Its value is of course recognised by those who practise morality, or who enunciate moral systems.

  98. The others are like vague and vain attempts at a forgotten tune; she is like the tune itself, which is recognised the instant it is heard, and which has been so near to us all the time, though so immeasurably far away from us.

  99. He rode down the ranks, and recognised many soldiers who had served under him in the Carlist wars.

  100. The Spanish Colonial system was based upon the simple and well-recognised principle of rewarding political services to the Government in power, by the pillage of a colony.

  101. His eldest son was recognised as his chief assistant, and he, like his father, was exempt from the tribute or capitation tax.

  102. The only people who are recognised as useful to that country are capitalists and directors of Agricultural or Industrial enterprises.

  103. There is noted amongst these people a strong sense of morality and honesty, which unfortunately is not recognised by their Christian neighbours, who are accustomed to oppress them with the most exaggerated usury.

  104. It is a well-recognised occasion for the lover to assist and entertain his sweetheart.

  105. Their Maestro de Campo, the recognised head of their tribe, lived near Inagahuan, and I visited him at his house, and found him quite communicative through an interpreter.

  106. And now she was becoming conscious of the familiar way; now she recognised the quiet, still by-ways of the maze she seemed doomed to wander in forever.

  107. That cup day finished him; he recognised that he was done for.

  108. It may have been that the old butler recognised the innate delicacy of the motive, or it may have been a sudden confidence born of the necessities of the case, for he asked Plank to see his young master.

  109. It was the expression of fright; she recognised it.

  110. And it was not unpleasant to know that others recognised the vastness of his Luck.

  111. She started when she heard his step, because she recognised it.

  112. Girls who can draw must draw in the conventional manner recognised by society.


  113. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recognised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.