They are not the dreams of a visionary theorist and enthusiast, but the hard, solid, real results of the vast experience of a tried veteran, who has personally superintended or executed all the operations of which he writes.
We all remember the celebrated answer of Carême to George IV, whose cuisine he superintended while that sovereign was regent.
It was really reserved for the officials who superintended the working of transportation in Western Australia to give the system its first practically successful trial.
They were superintended by convict sub-overseers, and not by free persons; and the work done was naturally not large, more particularly as these convict overseers went in daily terror of their lives.
Reports and receipts of money from his agents who visited the religious houses in various parts of the country at his orders, or who superintended the works at Ipswich and Oxford, crowd in upon him with great frequency.
But scarcely was this danger past when news came that the Commissioners for levying the lay subsidy, the collection of which was superintendedby Cromwell, had met with a similar experience at Caistor in Lincolnshire.
Mrs. Peterkin prided herself upon her cuisine, which she superintended herself, and as Peterkin was something of an epicure and gourmand, the table was always supplied with every possible delicacy.
About noon on the twenty-seventh the Emperor passed; havingsuperintended certain repairs to the bridge, he started next morning for Zembin.
The choice of governesses, tutors, and servants for the little prince was personally superintended by his sire, and every detail of the feeding, dressing, and airing of the prospective emperor was the subject of minute inquiry and regulation.
He superintended the school, at first conjointly with his cousins, afterwards alone, from 1589 to his death.
Cima is usually reckoned among the disciples of Giovanni Bellini, and is believed at one time to have superintended the workshop of that master.
He superintendedthe manufacture of the tapestries of the Vatican made from Raphael's cartoons, and there are some tapestries by him in the great hall at Hampton Court.
Defn: An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.
A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
The whole system being superintended by the general boards at Milan and Venice.
They settled the proportion of the taxes, superintended the disbursements for roads, and had the especial care of the charitable establishments.
William, who as a rule is no fisherman, had caught six fish, and I superintended the boiling of them for breakfast, while Graham went for fresh water, which is only to be had some distance off.
Mary Repetto, who is generally the leading spirit, superintended the boiling of the water.
One of them, the Marquis de Quinsonnas, had during the battle in the streetssuperintended the executions at the Luxembourg.
This had been ordered and superintended by Raoul Rigault alone.
The Commission of Public Safety, which ought to have superintended Rigault, only followed his example.
The Portuguese himself superintended the tying-up, the tree being the stout acacia shading the chief's hut.
As the son was present at, and superintended the arrangements for his father's funeral, it can be no stretch of credulity to believe that he knew where his father was buried.
In addition to this, her mother, Katherine of Aragon, superintended her early education, and her attendants were all Spanish.
The men all turned out the morning after their enlistment, and I took charge, divided them into squads and superintended their drill.
He was in those days a lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry, and was one of the officers who superintended the execution of the nine Indians at the Cascades of the Columbia in 1856.
Wilson, a member of my staff, planned and superintendedthe construction of this bridge, going into the water and working as hard as any one engaged.
Charles Dickens superintended some rehearsals, but had left England before the play was acted in public.
At twelve, Captain Blomsberry, assisted by his officers who superintended the observations, took the reckoning in the presence of the delegates of the Gun Club.
The commander, posted on his bridge, superintended the operation, ready to stop or haul in the chains on the slightest signal.
Edward joyfully assented to the proposal, and Eleanora, with her female train, departed in the spring of 1270 for Bordeaux, where she superintended the preparations for the crusade campaign.
A raging fever succeeded; but in his lucid moments he superintended an artist, who, at his command, painted upon canvass, the device of a young eaglet picking out the eyes of an eagle.
Raphael's pupil, Michael Coxsius, of Mechlin, superintended the copying of his master's cartoons.
The toilet, kosmos, of goddesses wassuperintended by a priestess specially chosen for that purpose.
Mr. Giraldo, who had superintended the disembarkation, informed me that such scenes were of daily occurrence at Marseilles; adding, this must be very encouraging for you.
All these advantages were clearly demonstrated on the occasion of Lord Gough's visit to the camp of the 56th, when, with ten of the stoves in operation, you superintendedso successfully the cooking of five hundred men's rations.
Why, I only superintended the carrying out of the law from the window.
Moreover the expenditure was the affair of Fraulein Fruzsinka, who superintended these payments.
The captain had superintended the arrangement of the bags, and had so shaped the mass that it somewhat resembled in form the dunes of sand which lay behind it.
Pouceur, who superintended the theological part of the inquiry at the request of the Bishop of Tournay, and to whose tact and intelligent liberality he pays the highest compliment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superintended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
