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Example sentences for "traced"

Lexicographically close words:
trabeculae; trabecular; trac; trace; traceable; tracer; traceried; traceries; tracers; tracery
  1. In Spain irrigation may be traced directly to the Moorish occupation, and almost everywhere throughout Asia and Africa where the Moslem penetrated is to be found some knowledge of irrigation.

  2. No certain representative of the Dingle Beds has been traced elsewhere throughout the south of Ireland, where the Old Red Sandstone succeeds the uptilted Silurian strata with striking unconformity.

  3. On the Avon in Wiltshire and the Churn in Gloucestershire they may be traced back to Roman times.

  4. We have already seen that the dominant race in Munster traced descent from Ailill Aulom.

  5. The legendary account attributes the subjugation of the various peoples inhabiting Munster to Mog Nuadat, and the pedigrees are invariably traced up to his son Ailill Aulom.

  6. It was past midnight when Patrasche traced it over the boundaries of the town and into the narrow, tortuous, gloomy streets.

  7. He kept on his way, a poor gaunt, shivering thing, and by long patience traced the steps he loved into the very heart of the burgh and up to the steps of the great cathedral.

  8. The pedigree of the family in the Norman period has been well traced by Mr A.

  9. The persistent assertion that the Cartae Baronum were connected with, and preliminary to, the auxilium ad filiam maritandam of 1168 is undoubtedly to be traced to Swereford's ipse dixit to that effect.

  10. Having now traced the royal iter, of which the pleas are distinguished on the Pipe-Rolls as held 'in curia regis', I turn to the circuits of the judges.

  11. Footnote 37: 'The growth of the system of knights' fees out of the older system of hides is traced by Stubbs.

  12. But there is no fixed proportion to be traced between the amount paid and the number of servitia due.

  13. No relation, therefore, can be traced here.

  14. By this means we are enabled to see how the five-hide system could be traced further still if we had in other districts the same means of learning how two or three Vills were thus grouped together.

  15. This explanation is very tempting, and, indeed, such a system of apportioning liability is to be traced from time immemorial in the Indian village community.

  16. They traced out the figure of a man, and then an arm shot upward, poised for an instant and descended.

  17. With great care and perfect frankness he had traced the history of his infatuation in a letter to his father, to be communicated when the latter chose to his mother and sister.

  18. On it lay a large book-a Bible-a pen, a bottle of ink, and a piece of paper on which were letters traced with great care and difficulty.

  19. I thought that the job had been so well managed that it could never be traced to me, but when I got up to the top of the hill I saw a fellow just starting from the bottom.

  20. Should he return to Weymouth, inform the authorities that he had traced the murderer of Mr. Faulkner to a place of concealment, and bring them there to arrest him, or should he go down and encounter him single-handed?

  21. The development of this apocalyptic phrasing of hope has been traced too often to require long rehearsal here.

  22. Consider, for example, the development of the idea of God himself, the course of which through the Bible we briefly traced in a previous lecture.

  23. All through the New Testament there is a throb of joy which, traced back, brings one to the assurance that no man need stay the way he is.

  24. Its beginnings must be traced to other and less reputable pioneers.

  25. The declaration in no way conflicts with the changes in imperial policy which may be traced during the opening weeks of the Diet, nor with that future action which led to the Sack of Rome and to the Augsburg Interim (1548).

  26. The first part proves that every spiritual possession which a man has or can have must be traced back to his faith; if he has faith, he has all; if he has not faith, he has nothing.

  27. The gradual growth of the organisation finally adopted in each city and State can be traced for a portion of Germany in Sehling's unfinished work.

  28. Some writers have traced the origin of this Zwickau movement to Hussite teachings.

  29. Even his appreciation of the Neo-Platonist side of Humanism could be traced back to mediaeval authorities; for at all times the writings of the pseudo-Dionysius had been a source of inspiration to the greater Schoolmen.

  30. Luther's gradual progress towards his final view of the Church is traced minutely by Loofs, Leitfaden, pp.

  31. He tarried not to eat or drink, But put a flag of lightish pink, And traced on it in violet ink-- Excelsior!

  32. From whom do they learn the law which is traced out for them?

  33. Who has traced for the sun and the stars the paths that they must follow?

  34. Varuna has traced out paths for the sun: he has thrown forwards the fluctuating torrent of rivers.

  35. It is the king Varuna who has traced out to the sun the broad path he is to follow: to footless creatures he has given feet so that they may run.

  36. The Umbrians may possibly have adopted the word -tribus- only when they came under the influence of Roman rule; it cannot with certainty be traced in Oscan.

  37. But the distinction between Rome and the mass of the other Latin towns must certainly be traced back to its commercial position, and to the type of character produced by that position in its citizens.

  38. This reverence for, or worship of, the organs of generation, has been traced to a very early period in the history of the human race.

  39. In the form of the other, age had traced its marks.

  40. Carlos would have traced this party farther, as he knew they must have passed on the evening before.

  41. Within two lengths--less--the same distance that is traced here on the banks of the zequia!

  42. Still youthful, the lines had been firmly traced by toil and hardship.

  43. So we looked upon the great vein, which cut the wall of the pit as a true vein should, and we measured it, and traced it from above and below, and drove the stakes of the claims and blazed the trees in token of our rights.

  44. Listen to any Canadian who is expressing ill-feeling toward the United States, just now, and you will find that nine times out of ten the irritation can be traced back to the movies.

  45. Much, if not all, of the present-day unrest can be traced back to organized greed--either to the greed of capitalists or the greed of classes.

  46. If his activities could be traced in red lines on a map, they would resemble the charts of the nervous system I saw a few days ago when going through an Institute of Anatomy.

  47. Neither the captain nor his mate could be traced now, but it was some satisfaction that they had not secured the jewels.

  48. I thought my statement that we had traced Ewing would frighten him.

  49. If I could manage it, some of them should be when the moon traced a pale gold path across the sleeping waters.

  50. And then, before obtaining the money needful for the work, he at once set out the lines of a noble church as traced by the splendour of the red light.

  51. This transition may be traced through the first hundred and twenty years of lace-making.

  52. His pursuers finally traced him, and followed him as far as the tree, and into the sky, with loud and unceasing imprecations of revenge and their determination to kill him.

  53. The relation of the family is deep and well traced amongst the wildest tribes, and this fact alone forms a basis for bringing him back to all his original duties, and re-organizing Indian society.

  54. The few fields which the Indians have cleared and prepared for corn fields, in northern latitudes, are generally to be traced to some adventitious opening, and have been enlarged very slowly.

  55. The result was that a clear way was well traced out for the Hvalross right up to the rugged land with its mountains, not more than eight miles away, so that navigation would be perfectly easy at that moment.

  56. Those Globigerinæ can be traced down to the Globigerinæ which live at the surface of the present great oceans, and the remains of which, falling to the bottom of the sea give rise to a chalky mud.

  57. Traced back to its earliest state, the nettle arises as the man does, in a particle of nucleated protoplasm.

  58. Perhaps you mean if traced back to Adam," I replied, not quite liking his tone.

  59. The charm of good manners is not a qualification belonging to any particular station in life, for, to the poor and unlettered oftimes may be traced deeds and actions that mark them as nature's noblemen.

  60. The march of the invading Roman armies, for example, can be traced by the fragments of pottery left behind them.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "traced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.