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Example sentences for "shewn"

Lexicographically close words:
shewest; sheweth; shewid; shewing; shewinge; shews; shewy; shewyd; shewyng; shewynge
  1. She was shewn into a room where several other persons were sitting, and where more kept momently coming in.

  2. Ay, and more than that; it wakened the keen longing for that beauty and strength of life which had so shewn her her own poverty.

  3. No art to scheme was shewn in them; there might be resolution; he liked that.

  4. Experience had shewn that rigorous measures, such as humbling them by force of arms, were not only very expensive and bloody, but disagreeable to a humane and generous nation, and seldom accompanied with any good effects.

  5. As the French were tampering with them, and had shewn a keenness more than common to gain some footing with them, it behoved the province to exert itself, in order to prevent if possible any alliance with its enemies.

  6. You found a father, indeed, who adopted you, and you have long served him with zeal, and shewn many proofs of your courage.

  7. Then she a little curiously asked to be shewn the rest of the house.

  8. Experiment has shewn also that between the finest vessel of deep draught and a vessel of similar tonnage, built in the form of a segment of a sphere, there is no difference of resistance.

  9. In extent and spirit of design it partakes of the style of Memmi, and in one of the sufferers on the cross he has shewn that he justly appreciated and successfully followed his guide.

  10. Both Mariette and Bottari have shewn the little esteem in which they held this work, by their correspondence, inserted in the 6th volume of the Lettere Pittoriche.

  11. As a miracle of despatch we are also shewn the picture of S.

  12. We were shewn through the house; and I never shall forget the impression made upon my fancy by some of the ladies' maids tripping about in neat morning dresses.

  13. We were then shewn a Latin inscription, proposed for this monument.

  14. There may, perhaps, be some choice of expression, and some excellence of arrangement, that cannot be shewn in translation.

  15. Dr Johnson here shewed so much of the spirit of a highlander, that he won Sir Allan's heart: indeed, he has shewn it during the whole of our tour.

  16. If I had thought of it, I would have shewn him a child of mine, who has had a lump on his throat for some time.

  17. There are certainly not a great many; but I could have shewn him more than two at Balmuto, from whence my ancestors came, and which now belongs to a branch of my family.

  18. Dr Johnson wrote a long letter upon the subject to a friend, which being shewn to them, made them ashamed, and afraid of being publickly exposed; so they were forced to a compliance.

  19. I sent in my name; and, being shewn in, found the amiable duke sitting at the head of his table with several gentlemen.

  20. Tuesday, 9th November I wished to have shewn Dr Johnson the Duke of Hamilton's house, commonly called the Palace of Hamilton, which is close by the town.

  21. He said he was shewn it in the Herald's office spelt fourteen different ways.

  22. But this conversation shews how well he was acquainted with the Moeonian bard; and he has shewn it still more in his criticism upon Pope's Homer, in his Life of that poet.

  23. There was here also a Portuguese officer, Don Alfonso Vincente, with four barks from Malacca, who had come expressly to endeavour to prevent our trade, as was shewn in the sequel.

  24. The nobleman then asked to see the superscription of the letter, which was shewn him.

  25. Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.

  26. And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee; moreover God hath shewn me thy seed.

  27. And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

  28. He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?

  29. It flashed upon him that he had repeatedly shewn them to the Nosnibors, and had once even written them down.

  30. Shew me Thy will, O Lord,' I cried in great distress, 'and strengthen me to do it when Thou hast shewn it me.

  31. The expression on this man's face was much like that of the early Christians as shewn in the S.

  32. This was found by the mother of Guarionex, the worst woman in those parts, who considered the circumstance as a great miracle shewn by God: God knows to what end!

  33. The cacique came on board while the admiral was at dinner; and the respect shewn by these naked people to their chief was very remarkable.

  34. On this four canoes drew near, and being shewn certain strings of glass beads, which they mistook for a sort of stones called chalcibites, much valued among them, they were pacified.

  35. GOD for the goodness shewn to the church in his day, by which so glorious an opportunity was presented of propagating the gospel.

  36. They were quite ignorant of our weapons; for on being shewn swords, they ignorantly laid hold of the edge.

  37. The Balance and Stilyard, with all their Properties and Uses shewn and explain'd.

  38. The Sines of the Angles of Incidence and Refraction, shewn to be (at all Degrees of Incidence) in a constant Proportion to each other.

  39. The Pressure of the Air shewn by Experiment to be different at different Altitudes from the Surface of the Earth.

  40. Chenevieres had shewn her some letters from Voltaire, and M.

  41. The confidence in the King, which is habitual to your people, is shewn by the exclamation, so common among them, 'Ah!

  42. Remember, my desire is, to have every respect shewn to his remains.

  43. The feelings of the Academicians, the students, and the public, with respect to the lectures, will be shewn by the following letters from Joseph Farington, Esq.

  44. The best mode of trial was submitted to Johnson, who proposed that each should endeavour to learn by heart, in the shortest time, that part of the eleventh book of Paradise Lost which describes a vision shewn to Adam by Michael.

  45. Having thus shewn that a communication of punishment is necessarily connected with a participation in guilt, it remains to consider whether punishment can be extended to those, who are no way concerned in the crime.

  46. It was shewn in a former part of this treatise, that a body politic though it may seem to vary by a succession of new members, continues the same, as long as it retains its form.

  47. In speaking of belligerent powers, it was shewn that the law of nature authorises the assertion not only of our own rights, but of those also belonging to others.

  48. But it may be asked, if the enemy now treated with this indulgence would have shewn the same lenity himself.

  49. Now it has been shewn that the justest title on which any one can claim, is that which is coaeval with the property itself.

  50. But if they be unequal, the profits and the losses must bear the same proportion, as Aristotle has shewn at the conclusion of the eighth book of his Ethics.

  51. For the infliction of punishment, only to gratify resentment, so far from being conformable to the Gospel, has been shewn above to be repugnant even to the law of nature.

  52. It has been shewn before that the right to property may be lost by neglect; for property can continue no longer than while the will of ownership continues.

  53. This indulgence ought to be shewn to every people, especially in their attachment to the religion of their forefathers, of which they should never be deprived but with their own consent and conviction.

  54. It was shewn above that apprehensions from a neighbouring power are not a sufficient ground for war.

  55. The age of 'Ajeeb has been shewn to have been little more than eleven at this period; therefore I have substituted twelve for fifteen.

  56. By Allah, this hour during which thou hast been away from me hath appeared as a year; for I cannot endure thy separation; and see, I have thus shewn thee my state, through the violence of my passion.

  57. Almost every Muslim who can afford it has a seal-ring, for a reason shewn in a former note (No.

  58. It is here applied to Cairo, as will be shewn by the following note, and by the sequel of the tale, though this city was not founded until long after the reign of Haroon Er-Rasheed.

  59. I have shewn that the state of manners and morals described in many of these tales agrees, in a most important point of view, with the manners and morals of the Arabs at the commencement of the tenth century of the Flight.

  60. It has been shewn in a former note that the Arabs consider it indecorous to eat with the left hand.

  61. Thus I have shewn that I am very greatly indebted to him for his learned labours.

  62. Yellowness and blackness were mingled upon my face; and I remembered my cousin, and the kindness she had shewn me, and was convinced that she loved me.

  63. It is certain the population does increase, as is clearly shewn by the lists of the casts.

  64. Nor were the parents of these boys insensible to the care and kindness that were shewn to them.

  65. He repeated his application for the horse, with the tempting offer of some rum; but the Indian was firm in his intention of keeping it, as a present for kindness shewn to his child.

  66. I lately met with two or three odd instances of that general respect which is shewn to the good old Knight.

  67. I might have shewn them very good sport, had this been their design; for as I am an old fox-hunter, I should have turned and dogged, and have played them a thousand tricks they had never seen in their lives before.

  68. More, who cites it from Cardan, in relation to another animal which providence has left defective, but at the same time has shewn its wisdom in the formation of that organ in which it seems chiefly to have failed.

  69. Life of St. Paul, according to the Acts of the Apostles I have thus far shewn that nothing was more destitute of proof than the authenticity of the books which contain the life and writings of St. Paul.

  70. As soon as we want confidence in the operators, we see no more miracles, or at least we doubt of those that are shewn to us.

  71. I have shewn that the Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistles of St. Paul, were rejected by some Christian sects which subsisted from the earliest times of the church.

  72. And, Thirdly, because those Surfaces of transparent Bodies which have the greatest refracting power, reflect the greatest quantity of Light, as was shewn in the first Proposition.

  73. For that the parts of Bodies do act upon Light at a distance shall be shewn hereafter.

  74. H] How to do this, is shewn in our Author's Lect.

  75. But in the Confine of two Glasses of equal density, there is not any sensible Reflexion; as was shewn in the first Observation.

  76. Surely my malignant stars had not made me the cause of her death; yet had I not rashly set in motion a machine, over whose progress I had no controul, and which experience had shewn me was infinite in power?

  77. This, though the belief was long cherished, recent discoveries have shewn to be questionable.

  78. I have shewn myself deliberative and calm in the midst of peril.

  79. The second contrivance is by Mr. Barton, a diagram of which, accompanied by a piston as it is usually constructed, is shewn beneath.

  80. This wheel, as is shewn in the opposite diagram, is made to revolve on a hollow axis connected with the steam boiler.

  81. Illustration] The glass tube and bulb b is shewn with its piston a, the rod being hollow and closed by a screw c.

  82. An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does not good, but very great harm.

  83. Where the reedy Lindis floweth, Floweth, floweth, From the meads where melick groweth, Faintly came her milking song.

  84. Meanwhile I was thinking of my first love As I had not been thinking of aught for years; Till over my eyes there began to move Something that felt like tears.

  85. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

  86. For if the immortal gods foreshow us the future, by means of portents and prodigies, then it has been openly revealed to us that punishment is near at hand to him, and liberty to us.

  87. Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?


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