She walked to the dressing bureau and secured the roll with pins, and then proceeded to smooth the folds of her disordered dress.
Many difficulties occurred before Pepys actually secured the place, so that at times he was inclined to accept the offers which were made to him to give it up.
General Monk was anxious to get the office for Mr. Turner, who was Chief Clerk in the Navy Office, but in the end Montagu's influence secured it for Pepys.
The conquest, says Green, "secured for England a new communion with the artistic and intellectual life of the world without her.
Further down are the remains apparently of a fort: heaps of land-shells lie about it; they are very rare in this region, and during our four months' march we secured only two species.
I also secured the split half of a ball, or rather an oblate spheroid, of serpentine with depressions, probably where held by finger and thumb; the same form is still used for grinding in the Istrian island of Veglia.
As he refused to guide us, wesecured the services of an old shepherd, who, objecting to sleep in camp, caused abundant trouble and delay next morning.
You told me yesterday that my five thousand pounds are secured by the marriage settlement.
The lock by which the strong-door was finally secured could be turned only from the outside, but there was a strong latch of three large bolts which caught and kept the door closed when it was slammed.
The commander was very pleased to find that Kadu was still living at Aur, under the protection of Lamary, whose countenance he had secured at the price of half his wealth.
A Royal Council was hurriedly brought together, the House of Lords filled up, the Commonwealth officials and officers replaced as rapidly as might be by Royalists and before the end of June administration had been secured for the new monarchy.
It was he whosecured the interview with the king for Blood, and he doubtless lent his influence for mercy.
Many of these men have securedthe most if not all their great wealth since they have been the custodians of the people's public interests.
The American revolution of 1776 secured the independence of this country.
Printing has securedthe intellectual achievements of the past, and furnished a sure guarantee of future progress.
He presented his credentials at headquarters, secured lodgings, and sent off a dispatch to the Bulletin that very night, describing the last train from Port Arthur and the conditions as he had found them in that city.
He had only to lift his head and call his father, then the boat would be immediately pushed in under the store, Sam secured and his punishment certain.
No more distasteful news could have come to the Pitkins than to learn that Philip and their poor cousin had secured a firm place in the good graces of Uncle Oliver.
A quarter of an hour's conversation set her at ease and secured her good-will.
The mode of erecting the walls is as follows: a frame is constructed of six moveable planks placed edge-wise, opposite each other, and secured in this position by cross pieces bolted with moveable pins.
It affords an agreeable retirement to merchants who have discontinued business, masters of ships who have left off going to sea, and other persons, who, having secured an independence, seek only leisure to enjoy it.
He secured his remarkable play "The Thief" for America.
A conference was held, and, through the instrumentality of Lestocq, Frohman secured the American rights to "Charley's Aunt.
Charles Frohman contributed his growing chain of theaters to the organization and secured a one-sixth interest in it which he retained up to the time of his death.
In this unusual way Pauline Chase secured the part which helped to endear her to the man who was her friend and sponsor.
Unable to get Tearle, Belasco and Frohman secured Henry Lee, a brilliant and dashing leading actor who had succeeded Eben Plympton in the cast of "Hazel Kirke.
Charles now secured the manuscript of "Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire.
He secured her release from the Gattis, who controlled her English appearances, and made her John Drew's leading woman.
Charles at once secured an interest in this lease, and it was his first out-of-town theater.
To the same hotel came the Massachusetts Phalanx, of Lowell, which hadsecured a conspicuous place in the inaugural parade.
About this time Frohman and George Edwardes secured the English rights to "The Merry Widow.
In those days actors usually secured engagements by running down rumors of productions that were afloat on the Rialto.
He was still enthusiastic about the melodrama, so he secured a vivid piece by R.
I havesecured two horses," he said, "to enable you to proceed at once, if you are able to.
On seeing such a happy face returning from the altar the observer might have concluded that the bride had assuredly attained her desire; that she had secured a title; that the pre-nuptial settlement had been safely signed and sealed.
He found a lodging, and, having secured the comfort of the horse provided by the lame shoemaker of Konigsberg, he went out into the streets in search of information.
It is secured; it will be secured by my own resolution.
Bedtime was always a great relief to Plantagenet, for it secured him solitude.
Having secured the advantage of a long start, by the device of turning the key of his chamber, he repaired to the stables, and finding no one to observe him, saddled his pony and galloped away without plan or purpose.
In ^Caulerpa^ the stability of the plant is securedby numerous fibrils which emanate from the interior of the cell, forming a spongy network of interlacing filaments.
The spat is there collected on tiles coated with cement, piled in layers crosswise, and secured in crates.
Our two animals being secured upon our sled, and the traps carefully reset, we commenced our return journey.
They had secured the services of an experienced guide, and were well equipped for the perilous journey before them.
With the connivance of Eugene Rougon, they fled the country, Hamelin going to Rome, where he secured a situation as an engineer.
He was elected a member of the Hanging Committee of the Salon, and secured the admission of Claude Lantier's picture L'Enfant Mort.
After three years at Marseilles he came to Paris, where he secured an appointment as assistant at "The Ladies' Paradise" through the influence of the Campardons, who were old friends of his mother.
By means of her good looks and a determination to get on at any cost, she secured the influence of her husband's superiors, and got rapid promotion for him in the office of the Municipal Council.
In order to assist his mother, the son, Paul, secured an appointment at Paris in a Government office.
Rougon supported him energetically, and had almost secured the grant when his retirement from office delayed the scheme for some years.
She took the part in the Blonde Venus originally played by Nana, andsecured a great success.
Thus Racial advance would be secured by its wives and mothers having been drawn from the best orders of women; the women naturally endowed with faculty and character; self-reliant, but unspoiled by abnormal training.
The bank was of good standing, and under ordinary conditions its contract would have amply secured the position of the Treasury.
As it was considered highly important that Queensland should be represented at this Conference, which was to be held in mid-August, the Government secured an adjournment for a fortnight, but only by applying the closure.
But as a constitutional Governor he could do no executive act until he had secured responsible advisers, and therefore the immediate appointment of Ministers was imperative.
But though the meeting resulted in Rogers acknowledging his fault, the perfect harmony of the Society was not secured by it, and he and his captious friends ultimately separated from the Society.
He saw that it was a mistake to lose the benefit of the old charters and statutes which secured the liberty of the subject, and he appealed to them on all occasions.
It also secured the sympathies of many in their struggles to whom the religious aim was incomprehensible.
But he wished to go further, and proposed that negro marriages should be legal, and that the rights of negro-women should be secured by law; but the Assembly threw out these Bills.
But important as this trial undoubtedly was, the full benefit of it was only secured by long years of bitter sufferings endured by the whole Quaker community.
He would not even be suspected of seeking worldly gain, but carefully secured to his wife and her family, the property which was hers before their marriage.
Henceforth no book was to be considered an expression of the views of the Society, unless it had secured the sanction of the Committee.
Having relieved him from the fastenings, and got him clear of the broken wood about the windlass, we secured him in a dry place to windward, with his head somewhat lower than his body, and all three of us busied ourselves in chafing his limbs.
He now got up, and, for the present, we secured his hands behind his back.
If grain loosely thrown in a vessel, then, is ever so well secured by shifting-boards and stanchions, it will be liable to shift in a long passage so greatly as to bring about the most distressing calamities.
Being afraid of losing some of our stores overboard during the night, in the event of a breeze springing up, we secured them as well as possible with cordage to the fragments of the windlass.
Having secured these, we stripped off the shirt of the corpse and dropped the body overboard.
I had brought with me the two pump-handles, one of which I secured near the companion-way, to be ready for use when required.
The villains now went upon deck, taking my friend with them, after having secured his arms behind his back.
The latter soon recovered himself, and a rope being thrown him, he secured the carcass before entering the boat.
The covering, too, which consisted of four very large skins fastened together with wooden skewers, was secured at the bottom with pegs driven through it and into the ground.
The captive thus secured was, without form of trial, adjudged to undergo our investigations as a punishment for his fratricidal voracity.
They can enjoy no repose until they have secured a shelter.
Thus was secured a number of openings for the impatient buzzing crowd, which might go in and out as usual, with no other difficulty than that of moving in a slightly zigzag fashion.
And it was by a strange piece of luck that I met you driving home to see if the lost children were found, andsecured your attention before it could be pre-engaged.
Meanwhile he secured rooms for Logan at the excellent inn.
His health was not good: he had been invalided home from the Imperial Yeomanry, after a slight wound and a dangerous attack of enteric fever, and he had secured a pair for the rest of the Session.
In Thibet it might be practicable: martyrdom might also be secured there,' said Merton.
When he has secured the bullion he may submerge his submarine and go off without returning my daughter.
Property is acquired by industry and probity; by the exercise of talents and ingenuity; and the possession of it is secured by the laws of the community.
The only decent manner of introducing matter to this effect would have been by placing it as a bye clause of a provision that secured the Portugueze from further molestations, and merely alluding to it as a thing understood of course.
It is secured against thieves and robbers; against idle and profligate men, who, however low your condition may be, would be glad to deprive you of the little you possess.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: assured; bound; certain; certified; fast; fixed; guaranteed; insured; safe; sure; tight; warranted
