That may be taken for granted," she replied, in a matter-of-fact way.
She was in a loose morning wrapper of pale pink, and had seemingly taken little trouble with her day's toilette as yet.
Tell him he must answer; that his silence will be taken as a proof he is not what he pretends.
He was taken back senseless to the camp of the Royal Picts, and for some days required the closest care.
The cry was taken up by battalion after battalion, and went echoing along--the splendid, hearty applause of men who were glorifying their own achievements as well.
Gortschakoff asserts that he is a Russian subject and was taken red-handed as a spy.
Stanislas McKay was a traitor and the son of a traitor; he had been actually taken red-handed in a new and still deeper treachery, and he must suffer for his crime.
She was altogether taken aback, dismayed, horror-stricken at its contents.
He had beentaken into Sebastopol by his escort at a rapid pace.
Born in a lower station, Gilly Jillingham might have taken honours as a "prig"; in his own with less luck he might have been an Ishmaelite generally shunned.
The combined-arms pounding by planes, field pieces, and naval guns the past week had likewisetaken its toll on the defenders.
We had taken very heavy casualties and were pretty well disorganized.
Leatherneck magazine photographer Staff Sergeant Lou Lowery had taken a picture of the first flag-raising and almost immediately got in a firefight with a couple of enraged Japanese.
He had the good sense to acknowledge that the theory he had taken up with some ardour was as impracticable as it was absurd.
When the new Eddystone Lighthouse was erected, he wrote to Trinity House and offered L500 for Smeaton's lighthouse that had been taken down.
One day two men with guns in their hands requested permission to enter his grounds after a bird that had taken refuge there.
Mr. Ekins, a gentleman of the island, charitably taken him in; and a doctor of a merchant ship then in the road under convoy of Southampton searched his wounds and applied proper remedies.
Nathaniel Munns, beadle, had tried to stop it, and two rioters were taken by the constables and conveyed to the prison of the Duchy of Lancaster Liberty.
And when the animal died, he would not allow the skin or shoes to be taken off, but had the carcase buried entire.
They thought that the heritage of faith was going to be taken from them.
Numerous Processes of Nobility, containing much of value to many noble families; of these last, Mr. Vella has taken the trouble of separating, all those referring to any English families.
He was taken there on the morning of the very day on which he was due here to preside over the Social Defence League banquet.
Roux cleared a seat for Madame Bergeret, while her husband’s thoughts strayed, first to the quartos stacked against the wall and then to his wife who had taken their place in the arm-chair.
The bust which for a long time was taken for a portrait of the poet is really a Roman copy of a Greek original of the fourth century and represents a young god worshipped in the mysteries of Eleusis.
Two days later, being denounced to the Versailles party, he was a fugitive from the military tribunal for having taken part in a rebellion against the established Government.
It did not seem to her that what had just taken place was important in itself.
I was taken to see her by Lacarelle, the préfet’s chief secretary, just at the time when she was at the height of her popularity.
Bergeret lived, now fallen from its glory, despoiled of its splendour and degraded by a plaster top-storey which had takenthe place of its graceful gable and majestic roof.
It had taken him exactly ninety minutes to arrive at this wise conclusion.
Besides, what these paltry thieves have taken is very little in comparison with what our honest administration wastes every hour of the day.
She stayed in her corner, neither moving nor looking, perhaps realising that she would not easily find anyone to hire her, and that others would be taken in preference to her.
This arrest, which was carried out on the day after the vote that authorised the prosecution, hastaken M.
Bergeret had taken the University Bulletin from the table and gone out of the room without saying a word, M.
But hereupon Pied d’Alouette began again: “They have takenaway my knife!
He was too honourable a man and had too much prudence and respect for his position ever to have taken any liberty with the young porteress at the library.
It is an old sheet-iron stove that came home from the army, and has since been taken down the coast and around the mountains with parties of ten to twenty.
This chapter is takenin full from a work on ornithology, written by Dr.
When vomiting has already taken place, copious draughts of warm water or warm mucilaginous drinks should be given, to keep up the effect till the poisoning substance has been thoroughly evacuated.
I have also taken pains, when I have been off on a walk, or have been camping, to notice the parties of campers and trampers that I have chanced to meet, and have made a note of their failures or success.
Supposing you and I were to start from home in the morning after breakfast; when noon comes, we eat the lunch we have taken with us, and press on.
This makes a much better bed, and can be takenout daily to the air and sun.
Taken as a fortification against cold, alcohol is as unsatisfactory as a remedy for fatigue.
You will always do well to cover the clothes you have taken off, or they will be quite damp in the morning.
You save the two and a half pounds weight; the roll is very much easier to the shoulder, and is easier shifted from one shoulder to the other, or taken off; and you can ease the burden a little with your hands.
The top edges, like those of the army shelter, are to have buttons and button-holes; the tent can then be takenapart into two pieces, each of which will weigh about two pounds and a quarter.
You may be tempted to sleep in your clothes; but if you wish to know what luxury is, take them off as you do at home, and sleep in a sheet, having first taken a bath, or at least washed the feet and limbs.
Under such circumstances the slightest giddiness, dimness of sight, or confusion of ideas, should be taken as a warning of possible sunstroke, instantly demanding rest, and shelter if practicable.
Just the same, Julia says she doesn't like you and that you're a nobody-- that Jabe Potter has taken you in out of charity.
Ruth told him of the remarkable interest Uncle Jabez had taken in the crippled girl.
How much better would it have been for Jabez Potter and all concerned had he taken Doctor Davison's advice and let out the water behind his dam!
Forced out of any part with her own grade of pupils, Ruth had taken the little ones about her and played and taught them games, had told them stories on rainy days, and otherwise endeared herself to them.
Nobody had taken it off, for both the train men and the passengers were excitedly discussing what his presence here might mean; and some of them seemed afraid of the great fellow.
Then, during a lull in the storm, and on the afternoon that Tom Cameron was taken home from Dr.
They thought somebody had come for yon and taken you out to the mill.
That made Ruth smile a little, and she told Helen what Mercy Curtis called the owner of the Red Mill, and of the fancy the lame girl had taken for Uncle Jabez.
Ruth told him, smiling, that Mercy had taken a fancy to his looks, and a fancy, too, to the Red Mill from her description of it.
Ruth had already taken the brush and pan and was at work upon the floor.
Perhaps she had never taken the time to follow down the rows of words in the dictionary.
The boy had appeared at the mill door first, and he stepped down and would have taken the bag of grain out of the wagon, had not the miller himself suddenly appeared and said, in his stern way: "Let it be.
Meanwhile Aunt Alvirah seemed to have taken in several things about her guest that were significant.
If Uncle Jabez had taken to heart anything that Aunt Alvirah had said, he did not show it.
And when he had taken them, he said to him: Strike with an arrow upon the ground.
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his own country: for the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt, unto the river Euphrates.
Kings Chapter 25 Jerusalem is besieged and taken by Nabuchodonosor: Sedecias is taken: the city and temple are destroyed.
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died.
They are extremely bitter, and therefore are called the gall of the earth; and are poisonous iftaken in a great quantity.
And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou wilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee.
Elias is taken up in a fiery chariot, and his double spirit is given to Eliseus.
The French officer I have spoken of as taken along with me, was in my company, and caned like a dog.
The emerald must be taken from that Jew: in the very keeping it the scoundrel has committed high treason.
This day two years my last hope and pleasure in life was taken from me, and my dear child was called to heaven.
I suspect that the Bastile was waiting for him in his own country, had he taken a fancy to return thither.
I am ill--I have taken physic--I have not left the house this morning!
The thought of the money quite put me in a good humour, and my wife, as she lay on my shoulder in the post-chaise going to London, said it was the happiest ride she had taken since our marriage.
I spent the money, and that I had taken from the colonel's body, every groschen, that night with some jovial companions; but as long as war lasted was never without a dollar in my purse.
Both were rigorously searched; the Jew's papers and cases taken from him: the jewel was found in a private pocket.
Black-necked Stilt One taken at Laguna Lakes, now mounted and in possession of J.
Two specimenstaken on a holdfast that was thrown up on the beach at Laguna Beach during July, 1914.
Several specimens taken at Laguna Beach the latter part of July, from the Rhodophyceæ on the rocks.
This interesting form was taken from a large mass of the tubes of Vermetus (squamigerus?
Lichti 215 Preliminary Notes on Some Marine Worms Taken at Laguna Beach--W.
Contribution from the Zoological Laboratory of Pomona College) Preliminary Notes on Some Marine Worms Taken at Laguna Beach W.
Two other species were taken from a similar location, but I have not identified them yet.
Preliminary Notes on Some Marine Worms Taken at Laguna Beach, 217.
Two specimens of this beautifully brilliant orange annelid were taken on holdfasts.
A single specimen was taken in wave-washed sand three miles south of the Laboratory.
Ashamed of his cowardice, he determined to return and claim it, in the event of its having been discovered and taken by one of the contending parties.
Gordon looked astonished, Hanmer was glad that I had "taken his advice," and Willingham laughed outright; he had overheard Clara Phillips ask me to dance with her.
His agony rose almost to suffocation; he compared his own destiny with that of the being whom he was about to deprive of life, and he felt that he could not unwillingly have taken his place.
Here we found Hanmer and Gordon, who had taken a house for the party, and seemed already domesticated.
They had pitted us like game-cocks, and bets were freelytaken as to the chances of our killing one another, and the particular spots.
It may be taken as a rule that this tube, if horizontal, should not be less in length than four and a half times or more than six times its diameter.
In some cases it was more, but the inequality of rate of flight, had it been taken into the reckoning, would have accounted for this.
The cuts given herewith, taken from the Illustrirte Zeitung, represent two statues for the new Post Office at Leipzig.
Entering through the old gate one sees two ancient pieces of cannon taken from the English, who unsuccessfully laid siege to the place in 1422.
For our part, we propose to style "instantaneous" any photograph that is taken in a fraction of a second that our senses will not permit us to estimate.
But for a few years past it has taken a new impetus, and new processes have come to the surface.
In jacketing vessels, to prevent draughts, care must be takenthat the jackets do not cause currents of cold air to rise rapidly up the sides of the vessel, and so cool it.
Give him a lever that will make the time he takes equal to that taken by the insect, and he will throw off the load at a touch.
The floor space was half taken up by a screen and a film projector.
This might have been good literary training, but I fear the essays were not taken very seriously.
Why Smollett thus misconducted himself is a problem, unless he was either "meanly jealous," or had taken offence at some remarks in Fielding's newspaper.
Swear that you will convey this girl where I may never see her more," exclaims the bully, and La Motte, with the young lady, is taken back to his carriage.
Mr. Sinclair has not eventaken the trouble to inquire.
He had the pleasure to observe that the paper was taken up by the ladies, who immediately retired into the castle.
I can never say how much I detested these authors, who, taken in small doses, are far, indeed, from being attractive.
Mr. Kipling, however, has taken the wind out of its sails with his sketch, "The Finest Story in the World.
Some English people, having taken a country house in Ireland, were vexed by the usual rappings, stone-throwings, and all the rest of the business.
His courage was a strong rock, not to be taken or subdued.
For one, I have ever found an original charm in the lyrics of the Pleiad, and have taken great delight in Hugo's amazing variety of music, in the romance of Alfred de Musset, in the beautiful cameos of Gautier.
All the princes of Achaea competed for her hand, having first taken an oath to avenge whomsoever she might choose for her husband.
Thus gave my father the gifts that might never be taken again; Far worse were we now than the Gods, and but little better than men.
And so we all thither, and there she did sing an Italian song or two very fine, while he played the bass upon a harpsicon there; and exceedingly taken I am with her singing, and believe that she will do miracles at that and acting.
But I did plainly declare that, without money, no fleete could be expected, and desired the Duke of York to take notice of it, and notice wastaken of it, but I doubt will do no good.
By and by 'su marido' come in, and there without any notice taken by him we discoursed of our business of getting him the new ship building by Mr. Deane, which I shall do for him.
John Davidson, the marshal, had taken up Shagarach's theory of Harry Arnold's guilt with remarkable zeal and had borrowed one of the photographs, so as to see if he could be of use.
You might have entered and taken the will away without his knowledge, then?
The bomb formula, taken from the desk of the accused," explained the district attorney.
Were it not for the luminous eyes he might be taken for an abstract thinker.
True, the Whistler himself had almost ceased to pick on the office boy and even taken him under his wing of late, but Turkey Fenton and Toot Watts were as implacable as inquisitors turning a heretic on a lukewarm gridiron.
The suggestion was taken up with approval, and nearly every one present acted out the first word that came to him on the spur of the moment.
A quick-step, taken from the start, gave the party a gentle jolting, just sufficiently softened by the padded carriage upholstery.
The prison which he had taken from his predecessor, as orderly as any barracks the world over, he left to his successor (a military man) slovenly, rebellious and tunneled with secret avenues of communication to the outside world.
One coming upon them might have taken them for some brigand band en route to their mountains with plunder.
That glove's been in my pocket ever since I was taken to the hospital when the girl fell on me.
Your friends, the Marches, have taken their cottage in Lenox.
Even at 78 I should expect consideration from a nephew whom I had taken in as an orphan and raised to wealth and position.
I regret to say this spectacle filled Aronson with violent wrath, and the wharf loungers must have taken him for a wild man as he smote his fists together and danced about.
His second bet was taken and the game resumed amid its former silence.
He had nottaken Emily for a girl who herself had to work daytimes in a shop.
I based my oratorical aspirations upon my having taken the prize a number of times in Sunday-school for learning the most New Testament verses, and upon the fact that I always could make myself heard to the farthest corner of the room.
But my attention was taken by our approach to what I recognised as an "estate.
But I ran from one side to the other, and the last of the journey I was taken up between the driver and the heavy man on the high seat.
Maybe I really had taken care of the baby too long.
I was to have takenthe Memphis Girl down-river to-night.
He has not taken thought of what tricks the clear air and the great spaces have played with his perspective.
The life was too hard, too much of an elemental struggle, she said--and I was to be saved some of the knocks that my dad had taken in the struggling years.
The two of them stood abashed, like pickpockets taken in the act, and a man by the girl's side put in a word.
It's highly probable, however, that if my father and mother had lived I should have gone into some commercial pursuit or taken up one of the professions.
The river boat on which I'd taken passage was due to leave at midnight.
It was all arranged offhand in less time than I have taken to tell of it, and I was hustled out to where a row of cow-ponies patiently awaited the pleasure of their hard-riding masters.
Only by driving a bargain could they have taken the post--Montell could have fought them all winter.
Most of the communication was taken up with an explanation of how he came to jump into the breach so quickly.
It will be awkward if a bunch of unfriendly Stonies have takenpossession of the one spot that will serve us.
But, as I said, you killed a man, and the killing has taken on a different color in the minds of others, since you are also accused of theft.
Not so bad for Montell, that--or has the Company taken a fresh tack, I wonder?
Peace, speak not too loud, I would not have any notice taken that I am the author, till we see how it passes.
I'll have this belly o' thine taken up, and thy grass scoured, wench.
Troth, I am a little taken with my Win's dressing here: does it not fine, master Winwife?
We may supplement this by a paragraph taken from Laurence Hutton's entertaining volume of "Plays and Players.
It was a little over three years between his arrival in America and his New York debut; about eleven between that appearance and his lesseeship in Chambers Street; and eleven more remain to be taken note of.
An endeavor is here made to supply such need; and in the view taken of Burton as Actor, Author, and Manager, the relation is from birth to death.
He began in the most strangely sudden way by asking: "Why should there be any fear of discovery, when every possible care had been taken to prevent it?
There was one portrait," she resumed, "that had been taken after the execution.
During my residence at Florence, the Chaplain and I had taken many a retrospective look (as old men will) at past events in our lives.
He reminded me of the discouraging view which the Doctor had taken of the prospect before him.
At that past time, death had taken my good wife from me; my two boys were away at Harrow School; my domestic life was the life of a lonely man.
Neither could I fail to conclude that Philip had tried to persuade her to see him, on those former occasions when he told me he had taken a long walk.
When the Scripture Class had broken up for the day, duty ought to have taken me home.
There was no persuading him to allow himself to be taken to the hospital.
I should most assuredly have taken the opportunity of leaving her to her own devices, if I had been free to act as I pleased.
But I was compelled to own that Mr. Gracedieu had taken a dislike to me, which rendered it necessary that my visit should be brought to an end.
Encouraged by the doctor, I recovered sufficiently to be able to ask him where Philip was to be taken to.
Taken completely by surprise, I signed to the attendant to wait for further instructions.
Philip has wiselytaken my advice, and employed pious fraud.
My accomplished friend continues in these terms: "'I can understand the surprise which you have felt at the strange course taken by their father, as a means of concealing the difference which there must be in the ages of these young ladies.
His evil machinations had resulted in destroying the bridge, but he had foiled himself and not the daring youngster who had taken a bold risk and crossed the gap.
His honors, falling thick upon him, were embarrassing, and he would rather have taken himself off to some quiet spot and clasped just a few friendly hands.
If you'd taken a header from the bicycle, and broken a leg or an arm, that would have put you out of the running.
The fury of his opponent offered opening after opening of which Matt could have taken advantage; yet, strangely enough to Perry and his followers, Matt held his hand.
Perry has taken to practise just as though he was to be the big high boy in that bicycle-race," remarked Chub.
Perry, perhaps not averse to having the fight takenoff his hands, ordered his team-mates to keep back.
The whole gang might have jumped me and taken the rabbit's foot away.
As you know, things do not surprise me very often, but in this affair I confess I'd been taken completely aback.
He had taken a room at the Grand, he told me, and I afterwards found that on the following morning Bindo pretended to discover him at the hotel, and introduced him to the unsuspecting old lady as young Lord Kelham.
We afterwards discovered that several of the finest pieces we had taken had actually been sent to her on approval by Gilling, so, curiously enough, we had touched his property on a second occasion.
Valentine had travelled with me as far as Milan, while Bindo had taken train, I believe, to Berlin.
Why had Bindo taken the trouble to await me there at the foot of the Var bridge, when he had given me instructions where to go at Monte Carlo?
He has taken our baggage with his, and you will take me by road alone.
I saw how completely I had been taken in, and how entirely I was now in the renowned detective's hands.
Within a week I had the whole of the mysterious affair at my fingers' ends, and moreover I knew who had taken the sparklers, and in fact the complete story.
You must come round to Bow Street, and I warn you that any statement you may make will be taken down and used as evidence against you.
They had arrived at the hotel about a week after I had taken up my quarters, and as they became friendly I often took them for runs.
Surely no one would have takenhim to be an emissary of the Metropolitan Police.
As soon as he had settled himself I put such a move on the car that his breath was almost taken away.
Last night, when the Jewess went up to her room, she found her own maid had gone to bed very unwell, and the faithful Rosalie had, at my orders, taken her place.
I have, however, taken a room for you, and we will drop you there as we pass.
As he appeared she stopped a moment, as if to turn aside; then recognising him she slowly advanced and had presently taken the hand he held out.
Shortly afterwards my husband proposed we should cease to live in Paris, and I gladly assented, for I believe I had taken a turn of spirits that made me a detestable companion.
Now you see she has taken this extraordinary fancy for solitude.
Something of infinite value was floating past him, and he had taken an oath, with which any such case interfered, not to raise a finger to stop it.
Old Madame de Mauves, who flattered herself that in this whole matter she was very laudably rigid, might almost have taken a lesson from the delicacy he practised.
Mauves had fait quelques folies which his wife had taken absurdly to heart.
It was as if she had taken me by the nape of the neck and held my head for half an hour over a basin of soupe aux choux: I felt as if we ought to ventilate the drawing-room before any one called.
As soon as we had taken off our heavy furs and seated ourselves beside a warm fire, we began to feel the sudden reaction which necessarily followed twenty-four hours of such exposure, suffering, and anxiety.
I had taken the precaution to disengage my feet from the treacherous iron stirrups, and as we fell I threw myself toward the face of the cliff so as to avoid being crushed by my horse.
Bush's big meerschaum, in company with a corpulent sponge, had taken up temporary quarters in the crown of my best hat, and the Major's box of cigars revolved periodically from corner to corner in the close embrace of a dirty shirt.
For several days the mercury never rose out of the bulb, and I could only estimate the temperature by the rapidity with which my supper froze after being taken from the fire.
In a few moments we were all gathered in a group on the highest point of the bluff, speculating upon the character of the mysterious steamer which had thus taken us by surprise, and watching the approach of the boats.
Through this wilderness there is not even a trail, and the so-called "road" is only a certain route which is taken by the government postilion who carries the yearly mail to and from Kamchatka.
The good little fellow" was strangely taken aback, and wished to defend himself; but Villars produced proofs that could not be contradicted.
Villeroy had taken up his position and made his arrangements, the Elector arrived in hot haste from Brussels.
But the calumny had such effect, that the bishopric of Poitiers was taken from him, and he retired into Brittany, where he passed the rest of his life in solitude and piety.
I knew I should make many enemies when the part I had taken in influencing M.
Brissac, who had been afraid to look me in the face ever since he had taken part in this matter, and with whom I had openly broken, was now so much ashamed that he avoided me everywhere.
Mademoiselle made a terrible uproar, but Puyguilhem, who since the death of his father had taken the name of Comte de Lauzun, made this great sacrifice with good grace, and with more wisdom than belonged to him.
The grief of the King had so much increased upon receiving this fresh blow--both his familiar friendstaken from him at once--that no one knew what to do with him.
This was taken by Monsieur, who was ignorant of the private cause of indignation alluded to, for a public mark of extreme disrespect; and being proud and sensitive he was piqued thereby to the last degree.
Upon hearing this observation about bleeding, the King spoke to him again on the subject; and said that he did not know what prevented him from having him at once taken to his room, and bled by force.
On the morrow the King was informed of what had taken place, and immediately ordered the Grand Prieur to go to the Bastille.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
