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Example sentences for "referred"

Lexicographically close words:
referenda; referendum; referr; referral; referre; referreth; referrible; referring; refers; refert
  1. Alpine purist" is a term of abuse with which Mr. Punch has never sullied his lips, though once he nearly referred to a very tedious bishop as a cis-Carpathian pedagogue.

  2. The last words referred to the expedition to Lake Ontario, and the unpaid labour of the men by whom the fort at Cataraqui had been constructed.

  3. Duchesneau urged the council to take cognizance of the case, but some of the members did not feel it safe to do so, and finally the papers were referred to the king--another quarrel for his Majesty to adjust!

  4. He referred to the fact that commissioners were to be appointed to decide questions of boundary, and said that, such being the case, the earl had taken too absolute a position.

  5. Thus was the question referred back to Canada, and an appeal actually made, after a fashion, to public opinion.

  6. An incident which has given rise to a good deal of discussion may here be referred to.

  7. In the matter just referred to, however, the bishop may well have been substantially in the right.

  8. The clause was referred to another committee, who modified it, by limiting the restriction to 1800.

  9. The book already referred to, called Notions of the Americans, tells of taverns during the triumphal tour of Lafayette in 1824.

  10. I don't know whether the punch tasters referred to were professional punch mixers or whether it was simply a term applied to persons of well-known experience and judgment in punch-drinking.

  11. The matter being referred to Dame Potentia she at once assented, and assigned him Cicely's chamber.

  12. At the reconquest the Romanizers were anxious to suppress it, and after much controversy the question was referred to ordeal by battle.

  13. It is often referred to as standing upon a plain, but the description is entirely misleading.

  14. One I have seen referred to frequently is one I would like to see always avoided.

  15. But the Presbyterians and Wesleyan Methodists have referred it back for further consideration.

  16. For example, I have referred to this country as the great treasure house of the Empire's history, and to the care and devotion shewn by our kinsmen from Overseas in their study of our country and its institutions.

  17. During the whole time we had spent in London together, he had never once referred to her, and I imagined, and almost hoped, that he had seen the madness of the determination he had expressed when we were down in Devonshire.

  18. Occasionally, when I have offered them food, I have observed them do this; but I do not think it referred to the food, unless it was intended as a vote of thanks.

  19. I have referred elsewhere, without describing it, to the sound which Nellie used for calling, and which she employed when attempting to dissuade my wife from going out and leaving her alone.

  20. While some of the more important of these contributions have been referred to in the notes, it has been impossible to do this in all cases.

  21. One instance of a dispute on this point has already been referred to--that in relation to the grievances of Post Office employees.

  22. In 1906 the changes were referred to a select committee and then each of them adopted on a motion by the government.

  23. In the end the proposals were shelved by being referred to the Executive Committee.

  24. The office of clerk of the peace for the county must be of considerable age, for it is referred to in a statute of Richard II.

  25. In the House of Lords an unopposed bill, like a public bill, is referred after second reading to a Committee of the Whole.

  26. Formerly it was an elaborate affair, which referred to the clauses of the speech in succession, but since 1890 it has taken the form of a single resolution expressing simply the thanks of the Commons for his Majesty's most gracious speech.

  27. The Home Secretary has, on the other hand, some of the functions of a minister of justice; and this will be referred to again when we come to speak of the Law Officers of the Crown.

  28. Wedgewood's is the one commonly referred to by writers upon porcelain and metallurgy; but a better one might be easily contrived.

  29. Ives first directed attention to a yellow pulverulent substance which invests the scales of the catkins, amounting to about one eighth of their weight; and referred to it the valuable properties which hops impart to beer.

  30. Illustration: 562] This figure has been already referred to for the illustration of those parts of the machinery which are common to both, and those parts therefore require no recapitulation.

  31. Coarse lias has has been referred to this head.

  32. The statistics of agriculture, trade, and manufactures is ably and fully discussed in Mr. M'Culloch's Dictionary already referred to.

  33. The limestones of the Jura formation are referred to this head, as well as most of those interspersed among the coal strata.

  34. The heat may be clearly referred to the prodigious friction among the particles of so cohesive a metal, when they are made to slide so rapidly over each other in every direction during the elongation and squaring of the rod.

  35. Each district or panel has a particular name; so that any circumstance relative to the details of the colliery, casualties as to falls and crushes, ventilation, and the safety of the workmen, can be referred to a specific place.

  36. Under ASSAY, I have referred to a furnace constructed by Messrs.

  37. Forsyth and I were lodged with the notary of the village, who over and over again referred to his good fortune in not having to entertain any of the Germans.

  38. He never once referred to the Franco-Prussian war, nor to the political situation in his own country, then passing through a crisis.

  39. These floes become welded together and form the "ice-foot" frequently referred to in these pages, and photographs showing how this is done are seen on Figs.

  40. In the meantime for further details of the habits and morphology of the species, the reader is referred to Dr.

  41. A map of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico showing localities referred to in the text.

  42. Paynter referred two specimens taken in late September and three January-taken specimens to S.

  43. It appeared from this correspondence that the bill was carried successfully through the House, and, on reaching the Senate, was referred to the appropriate Committee.

  44. If a business letter or a written memorial came in, the President found it easy to endorse: "Referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.

  45. The child smiled, as she did at Colville's speeches, which she apparently considered all jokes, but diplomatically referred the decision to Imogene with an upward glance.

  46. Oh, I never danced in my life," he replied; and then he referred the officer to Colville.

  47. The purposes of the Ecole Normale have been referred to on p.

  48. And doubtless she had merely blushed because she feared that the priest might think she had referred to her marriage in speaking of the spring.

  49. Next day she could have referred to it, with just the slightest break in her voice.

  50. Mr. Cathro winced, and then explained with emphasis that the Hugh Blackadder was a competition in which the local ministers were the sole judges; he therefore referred the ladies to them.

  51. Lincoln was interested, referred to by Professor Henry Johnson.

  52. He referred to past sorrows, to the anxieties of the war, to Willie's death, and spoke of the necessity to be cheerful and happy in the days to come.

  53. Twenty-five years ago, while I was secretary of the Coles County Bar Association, a paper was read to the Association by the oldest member concerning the trial referred to, and his paper was filed with rue.

  54. His paper referred to incidents occurring in 1847, and there is now no living person with any knowledge of it.

  55. For further discussion of this field the reader is referred to an excellent chapter on "Are Acquired Habits Inherited?

  56. Concerning what the ultimate source of these changes is, whether or not indirectly they may be referred to external conditions as seems probable to many biologists, no one so far has ever given a convincing, positive answer.

  57. It is easy to see, therefore, why such birthmarks are so frequently referred back by the credulous mother to her desire for or fear of some red object.

  58. About half way up the acclivity on the west side an overhanging rock forms the base of one of the pinnacles referred to.

  59. From each of these kivas men and youths from the secret orders to which I have referred are assembled to receive the Kōk-kō.

  60. But circumstances prevented the realization of this design, and before any line of business could be marked out for young Stephens, the political events above referred to took place and shaped his future career.

  61. The Attorney-General then addressed the court, and referred to the previous conviction against the prisoner.

  62. It won for him a reception far transcending that of Shiel or O'Connell as an orator; and it gave to him the title by which he was afterwards so often referred to--"Meagher of the Sword.

  63. In the course of his remarks he referred to the recommendation to mercy which came from the jury, whereupon Mr. Martin broke in.

  64. He swore that at the meeting he referred to I gave him directions to go to Kerry to find O'Connor, and put himself in communication with him.

  65. The Solicitor-General in his reply to Mr. Butt, referred to those topics.

  66. The attack upon the municipal town of this place, called Albium Intemelium, is particularly mentioned in the passage above referred to.

  67. Hence Strabo, Caesar, Florus, and others, have referred to the Suevi what related to the Catti.

  68. Naturally enough the disputed points were the most important ones, and had to be referred to the consuls of Cremona.

  69. Yet before his sentence can be executed, the convict must be degraded by his ecclesiastical superior; or, if the superior refuse, the whole affair must be referred to the consideration of the sovereign.

  70. The once prosperous stretch of beach here referred to is now a desert tract of sand, the furrows and ruins on which are the only relics of the busy commercial life once prevailing.

  71. The President had referred the matter in its entirety to the general commanding in the field, and the general had decided.


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