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Sentences starting with assumed

Assumed dress on the stage, since you were speaking of that, makes people no more constrained and self-conscious than it does off the stage. [4]

Sentences ending with assumed

It is true that many of these resolutions are at variance with the positions I have here assumed. [7]
Whatever it was, it was innate, not assumed. [4]
At one instant his pride rebelled against the attitude he had just assumed. [4]
He had told Henrica almost all he knew of her external circumstances, and this perhaps gave the former the same right to call her an adventuress, that many in Rome had assumed. [10]
While raising the food to his lips, he confirmed the news Maria had already heard from the musician, and was gentle and kind, but his appearance saddened her, for it recalled Barbara's allusion to the heavy burden he had assumed. [10]
Here the most cherished ties of earth were assumed. [7]
Evidently he is a gentleman of character, and his knowledge of the case cannot be shut out without increasing the aspect of persecution which the State's attitude towards the prisoner already has assumed. [5]

More example sentences with the word assumed in them

Uniformity of character would, however, naturally follow from the assumed uniformity of the exciting causes, and likewise from the free intercrossing of many individuals. [1]
At home she would have absorbed it eagerly; they would have discussed it; the doubts and suggestions in it would have assumed the deepest personal importance. [4]
Her voice shook with assumed passion. [11]
Leicester's undoubted gifts were well and cautiously directed, and his talent of assumed passion--his heart was facile, and his gallantry knew no bounds--was put to dexterous use, convincing for the moment. [11]
All the flags were sent aloft except half a dozen that were needed to decorate portions of the ship below, and in a short time the vessel assumed a holiday appearance. [5]
If now he were only going back with his fortune recovered, with brilliant prospects to spread before her, and could come into the house in his old playful manner, with the assumed deference of the master, and say: "Well, Edith dear, the storm is over. [4]
If this is well managed, the listener is always eager to believe a great deal more than the romancer seems willing to tell, and always resents the assumed reservations and doubts of the latter. [4]
As soon as we had swung clear of the cove he made for the weather stays, where he assumed a posture not unlike that in the famous picture of Farragut ascending Mobile Bay. [9]
The glowing ruby was transformed into a dark amethyst, and at last assumed the deep hue of a violet; but the eyes of the people continued to dwell on the sacred scenes as though spell-bound. [10]
When the palace was completed to Dion's satisfaction and became one of the most lauded ornaments of the city, the young men's friendship assumed a new form, and it would have been difficult to say which received the most benefit. [10]
In this there was a covert compliment to Caesar, who, after a doubtful victory over that valiant people, had assumed the name of Alemannicus. [10]
My client, in view of the peaceful aspect affairs had assumed, presently consented to relinquish his post, and handed the glasses over to me with an injunction to be watchful. [9]
It has been usually assumed that Strachey cribbed from Smith without acknowledgment. [4]
Barbara drew herself up, and the air of unapproachable dignity which she assumed well suited the aristocratic gentleman at her side, whom every one knew as the most brilliant, witty, and extravagant noble at the Emperor's court. [10]
Upon Mr. Cooke's unwillingness or inability to interfere in his behalf, the Celebrity had assumed an aggrieved demeanor, but soon the motion of the Maria became more and more pronounced, and the difficulty of maintaining his decorum likewise increased. [9]
So he paused until all was quiet, then his face grew grave and assumed an impressive aspect, and at once all faces sobered in sympathy and took on a look of wondering and expectant interest. [5]
Artemus dropped an unimportant remark or two, and then assumed a look of superhuman earnestness, and made the following astounding speech. [5]
Prince Vasili frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. [2]
The whole garrison turned out under arms and assumed a threatening attitude--yet still we did not fear. [5]
Resenting therefore the tone he had assumed, I took occasion not only to reiterate my previously expressed opinion somewhat more aggressively, but also went on to insinuate that he was himself distinctly lacking in any real appreciation of what was excellent. [4]
Then he said to them: "'You signed these contracts and assumed these obligations of your own free will and accord? [5]
He was devoted to the people as she was, he understood them; and for the moment their passion of humanity assumed the same aspect, though she knew that what he saw, or thought he saw, lay beyond her agnostic vision. [4]
I assumed indifference to the matter, laying the packet down upon my couch, and saying to him, "You will convey my thanks to Mademoiselle Duvarney for these books, whose chief value lies in the honourable housing they have had. [11]
They have assumed to make a national constitution of their own, in which of necessity they have either discarded or retained the right of secession as they insist it exists in ours. [7]
The wax began to display in a much reduced scale the whole figure of the beautiful youth and in the very same attitude which the young Dionysus carried off by the pirates, had assumed the day before. [10]
Everything was assumed to be possible for Napoleon, they expected him from every side, and invoked his terrible name to shatter each other's proposals. [2]
It was as though, while he was living under an assumed name, the real James Shiel Gathorne Crozier did not exist, or was in the far background of the doings and sayings of J. G. Kerry. [11]
Mark Twain's response this time assumed the proportions of a letter. [5]
This is the third time that Judge Douglas has assumed that he learned about these resolutions by Harris's attempting to use them against Norton on the floor of Congress. [7]
But does thee think they are worth--" Lacey assumed an injured air. [11]
By common consent the younger brother assumed permanently the position of family counselor and financier. [5]
The face of the sovereign, who had welcomed Heinz as if he were a long-absent son, assumed a graver expression, and his tone seemed to vibrate with a slight touch of indignation, as he exclaimed: "First, let us settle your own affairs. [10]
He therefore assumed the same attitude as had Mr. Flint, and forced the burden of explanation upon Austen, relying surely on the disinclination of his son to be specific. [9]
It is only the name for the incomprehensible cause of certain changes known to our consciousness, and assumed to be outside of it. [3]
We would start the men, and all would go well till the yawl would bring up on a heavy cake of ice, and then the men would drop like so many ten-pins, while Brown assumed the horizontal in the bottom of the boat. [5]
In May, 1858, the constitution of the republic was remodelled; and the nation assumed the political title of "The Granadian Confederacy. [7]
One such from the circle of my own friends, sixteen years old, slipped away from his nursery, and dashed in under, an assumed name among the red-legged Zouaves, in whose company he got an ornamental bullet-mark in one of the earliest conflicts of the war. [6]
From that moment the attack began, and assumed a severe character. [3]
He even assumed the air of a loyal, strictly silent servant, who would only venture to confirm and deny what the Alexandrians had already learned. [10]
Why was it that, to Hodder, he should gradually have assumed something of the aspect of a Cerberus? [9]
It is assumed that the public must be startled all the time. [4]
It is possible that the position assumed here--that M. Bourget dictated the O'Rell article himself--is untenable. [5]
The one thing that recalled the patriotic fervor everyone had displayed during the Emperor's stay was the call for contributions of men and money, a necessity that as soon as the promises had been made assumed a legal, official form and became unavoidable. [2]
Finally, we know that Lopez used an assumed name. [10]
It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. [7]
It was assumed that it was for a purpose, that it was in fact, if not a proclamation, at least an intimation of a new and brilliant Anglo-Saxon alliance. [4]
In respect to that I wish to say to you that in the position I have assumed I wish to do more than I have ever given reason to believe I would do. [7]
They graciously assumed that he, as one of the elect, would understand them. [4]
I speak of that assumed primary right of a State to rule all which is less than itself, and to ruin all which is larger than itself. [7]
The right of suffrage has often been assumed and exercised by aliens under pretenses of naturalization, which they have disavowed when drafted into the military service. [7]
At his suggestion she then assumed a variety of attitudes; she stood as Hebe, offering nectar to the gods--as Nausicae, listening to the tale of Odysseus--and as Sappho, singing to her lyre. [10]
If the plan shall be adopted, it is assumed that emancipation will follow, at least in several of the States. [7]
A Mormon named Rigdon assumed the Presidency of the Mormon church and government, in Smith's place, and even tried his hand at a prophecy or two. [5]
Quilp glanced at Richard Swiveller, and observed that having met him on the threshold, he assumed that he had come in search of some intelligence of the fugitives. [12]
On Konovnitsyn's handsome, resolute face with cheeks flushed by fever, there still remained for an instant a faraway dreamy expression remote from present affairs, but then he suddenly started and his face assumed its habitual calm and firm appearance. [2]
Clemens was quickly recognized, of course, and his assumed name laid aside. [5]
The young man recognized the anchorite, who with trembling hands was washing the wound at the back of his head, and his eye assumed an angry glare as he called up all his remaining strength and pushed his attendant from him. [10]
But the great question "Materialism or Antimaterialism" still agitated the Georgia Augusta, in whose province the conflict had assumed still sharper forms, owing to Rudolf Wagner's speech during the convention of the Guttingen naturalists three years prior to my entrance. [10]
The canyon assumed proportions that dwarfed those of its first ten miles. [13]
It is altogether probable that there will happen two or three very striking coincidences out of the whole ninety cases, in which it would seem evident that the medicine produced the relief, though it had, as we assumed, nothing to do with it. [3]
Dionysus is equally powerful on sea and on land; in the pirates' ship he assumed the form of a lion, and the pirates, filled with terror, flung themselves into the sea, and in the form of dolphins followed their lost bark. [10]
He assumed that position at Freeport on the 27th of August, 1858. [7]
The first long poem I wrote of my own impulse was a description of the wonderful forms assumed by the stalactite formations in the Sophie Cave in Switzerland, which we had visited. [10]
But the first plunderers were followed by a second and a third contingent, and with increasing numbers plundering became more and more difficult and assumed more definite forms. [2]
Absolute attention and petrified retention to the end of an act of the attitude assumed at the beginning of it. [5]
Her singing might perhaps have lured back her inconstant lover, and had she come to Brussels possessing the mastery of her voice which was hers during that happy time in May, her life would have assumed a totally different form. [10]
Stafford suddenly came over to the table near to his visitor, and with an assumed air of cold indignation, though with a little natural irritability behind all, said "Mr. Mappin, I assume that you have not gone elsewhere with your suspicions? [11]
It is in our blood, you see" she was talking with less restraint now, for she saw he was listening, despite assumed indifference--"and Pontiac was dearer to me than all else in the world. [11]
Only there is one point," and as he uttered the words his voice assumed an imperious tone, "which is already irrevocably decided. [10]
The dilemmas attendant on the publication of the sisters' novels, under assumed names, were increasing upon them. [14]
When conversation turned on her husband Helene assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had acquired though she did not understand its significance. [2]
The movement set on foot by the convention and Governor Johnson does not, as seems to be assumed by you, emanate from the National Executive. [7]
From the presence of this sword it was not unreasonably assumed that Louis Bachelor had at some time been in the army. [11]
With the exception of Louisiana, which was absolutely ignorant of American literature and drew its inspiration and assumed its critical point of view almost wholly from the French, the South was English, but mainly English of the time of Walter Scott and George the Third. [4]
On the twenty-fourth of July this game ceased, allegiance to Philip was renounced, and the Prince assumed sovereign authority. [10]
All the affectation of interest she had assumed had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety and fear. [2]
Arsinoe reminded her of her Helena, who certainly had been far less fair than the steward's lovely daughter, but whose image had assumed new and glorified forms in the mother's faithful heart. [10]
This superior air of Ferrol's was assumed by most Englishmen in the country, and it galled him. [11]
He was incapable of falsehood; and his deed, which under a false light so easily assumed an aspect of villainy, had, in fact, been no more than an act of thoughtlessness such as he had himself often lent a hand in. [10]
An unexplained residuum of change must be left to the assumed uniform action of those unknown agencies, which occasionally induce strongly marked and abrupt deviations of structure in our domestic productions. [1]
Even the publishers of "Jane Eyre" were ignorant whether Currer Bell was a real or an assumed name,--whether it belonged to a man or a woman. [14]
Did it ever occur to any one, I wonder, that with the purple I assumed the sword, to protect my empire and throne? [10]
But he saw nothing except the dawn and light clouds of smoke, that assumed a rosy hue as they floated upward. [10]
That Strachey made notes in Virginia may be assumed, but the book was no doubt written after his return to England. [4]
Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. [7]
Thus they had means to enable them to travel farther under an assumed name, and they finally settled in Alexandria. [10]
He assumed that Marion's sister-in-law was beautiful, and then disarmed Marion by saying that he thought of going down to Greyhope immediately, to call on General Armour and Mrs. Armour, and wondered if she was going back before the end of the season. [11]
Emerson had been listening to a sermon from a preacher esteemed for his orthodoxy, in which it was assumed that judgment is not executed in this world, that the wicked are successful, and the good are miserable. [6]
The touch of lightness in his reply served to emphasize the hitherto unsuspected fact that sportsmanship in Trixton Brent was not merely a code, but assumed something of the grandeur of a principle. [9]
During the interval life had assumed a new aspect. [10]
And, to cap it all, she assumed the fascinating air of the mediator--for her brother; seeking a reconciliation between us. [11]
And yet, such is the sweet self-sacrifice of their nature, they voluntarily take on burdens which men have never assumed, and which they would speedily cast off if they had. [4]
This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it without their consent. [7]
This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent or buy them, and drive them to it without their consent. [7]
And, further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer, is fixed in that condition for life. [7]
And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life. [7]
Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more. [2]
The agent swaggered in with that easy assurance he assumed whenever he got the upper hand. [9]
And to Austen, in the twilight in front of Jabe Jenney's, the affair might well have assumed the proportions of an intimacy of long standing rather than that of the chance acquaintance of an hour. [9]
The whole incident in her life as time wore on assumed an aspect bizarre, incredible, as the follies of a night of madness appear in the saner light of morning. [9]

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