Use believed in a sentence
Sentences starting with believed
- Believed in hangin' for them that deserved it. [5]
Sentences ending with believed
- But, no, no, you have not thought well of me, or you would have known that every day I cared, every day I watched, and waited, and hoped--and believed! [11]
- That this intimacy would have resulted in marriage, or an offer of marriage, if the lady's affections had not been preoccupied, the Fosters seem to have believed. [4]
- I never knew what the syndicalists believed. [9]
- It is only what he tells of himself that comes to be known and believed. [6]
- But now there was a sense of conflict, of evil, of the indefinable things in which so many believed. [11]
- The British had told them that the Kentuckians were a barbarous people, and they had believed. [9]
- To be able to lavish everything upon the most beloved of mortals, and do whatever her warm, ever-helpful heart prompted, seemed to her a special favour of the gods in whom she believed. [10]
- It is not to be believed. [5]
- When I say that the asparagus had grown six feet in seven days, I expect and wish to be believed. [4]
- They do not suppose that such denunciation is directed by undying hatred to him, as The Register would have it believed. [7]
Short sentences using believed
- She believed he was. [9]
- She believed it was. [8]
- They believed I was drowned. [11]
- Who'd have believed that you--! [11]
- He believed in Judith. [11]
- He believed what Jo said. [11]
- At least so I believed. [9]
- I wondered what he believed. [9]
- And yet Stephen believed. [9]
- I have always believed it. [12]
Sentences containing believed two or more times
- There we have two specimens of these Neapolitans--two of the silliest possible frauds, which half the population religiously and faithfully believed, and the other half either believed also or else said nothing about, and thus lent themselves to the support of the imposture. [5]
- I believed the time was come now for my climax; I believed that that whole army was in our trap. [5]
- The old physicians not only believed in its general efficacy as a wonder-worker in disease, but they believed that each malady could be successfully attacked from some special part of the body,--the strategic point which commanded the seat of the morbid affection. [6]
- Man never believed in so many things as now: he never believed so much in himself. [4]
- He had believed himself to be the happiest of mortals, and he had suddenly become the most miserable; no one, he believed, had ever experienced such a fall from the loftiest heights to the lowest depths. [10]
- He believed Jethro: he would have believed him even if Mr. Flint had not informed him that afternoon that he was beaten, and bitterly he wished he had taken Mr. Flint's advice many months before. [9]
- Some people believed he had found it, but most people believed he had not. [5]
- If, however, he had been told that another man was thinking of his wife, he would have believed it, as he believed now that David had done; and he cherished that belief, and let resentment grow. [11]
- This is not generally believed, because it is not generally believed that the chief end of man is the accumulation of intellectual and spiritual material. [4]
- Whatever the doctor believed, he believed with all his heart, and would fight for it whenever he got the chance; and if the intervals between chances grew to be irksomely wide, he would invent ways of shortening them himself. [5]
More example sentences with the word believed in them
- Soon Appelles arrives, young and vigorous and full of enthusiasm: he has led a host against the Persians and won the battle; he is the pet of fortune, rich, honoured, believed, 'Master of Palmyra'. [5]
- He believed in you, was so pitifully eager to believe in you even when the letter--" "Where is the letter? [11]
- I say to you, at the risk of the accusation of conceit, that I believed myself to have a power in the pulpit if I could only discover the truth. [9]
- I believed in you when he said it, as I believe in you now when you stand there like that. [11]
- I have believed you to be as righteous as all other men are not. [10]
- I cannot give you that to which you have been accustomed all your life, that which you have here at Fairview, but I shouldn't say this to you if I believed that you cared for them above --other things. [9]
- Oh, yes--you said you believed the door was open. [5]
- Arriving in New York, after an adventurous voyage, he met a number of old Californians--men who believed in him--and urged him to lecture. [5]
- Beaton said, Oh yes, he believed so. [8]
- Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
- There were many years in which my father believed the practices which he followed in behalf of your railroad to be necessary--and hence justified. [9]
- Instead of the yearning for John, of which Wolf had spoken and she, blind fool, believed, he thought of him with petty fears of the claims by which he might injure his favoured brother. [10]
- I believed it would never be cleared up--in this life--so I dropped it out of my mind. [5]
- Some believed he would march at once, others that he could not accomplish the investment before fall, others that the siege would be long, and bravely contested; but upon one thing all voices agreed: that Orleans must eventually fall, and with it France. [5]
- I think she would have opened her arms to Barine, had she believed that she was necessary to my happiness. [10]
- How overjoyed he would have been at the fulfilment of his wish to see him united to Daphne, at least in heart; with what fiery ardour he would have upbraided those who believed him capable of having appropriated what belonged to another! [10]
- Everybody believed I would die; but on the fourteenth day a change came for the worse and they were disappointed. [5]
- It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate! [11]
- He believed that with H. H. Rogers as his financial pilot he could weather safely any storm or stress. [5]
- I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. [7]
- True, the simpletons who were so madly in love with her, and with whom she played so cruelly, would have believed her capable of anything sooner than such kindness. [10]
- The other woman who came was full of gratitude, for the man was noble, she owed him a great debt, and she believed in him always. [11]
- The loyal hangers-on, who believed in divine right, were too proud of the company they found themselves in to make any such humiliating admission. [6]
- And, still more, who among all the guests of that honored, admired Thracian woman, would have believed that this sad heart belonged to her? [10]
- When these twelve white jurymen rode away from the ravine there was not one but believed that justice had been done by the High Court of Budgery- Gar. [11]
- It is that which sometimes has made me afraid, that we believed ourselves above the law. [9]
- The things for which her mother had striven she took for granted, and thought of them not at all, and she had by nature that simplicity and astonishing frankness of manner and speech which was once believed to be an exclusive privilege of duchesses. [9]
- Even the jealousy which had clouded the happiness of her love like a fleeting, rapidly changing shadow, she believed she had now renounced forever. [10]
- Of all that which a President might constitutionally and justifiably do in such a case, everything was forborne without which it was believed possible to keep the government on foot. [7]
- No one knew where he had gone, but his friends in Silliston believed he had been seized by one of his sudden, capricious fancies for wandering. [9]
- There were moments when she believed herself to hate Mr. Ditmar, when she treated him with an aloofness, an impersonality unsurpassed; moments when he paused in his dictation to stare at her in astonishment. [9]
- She had done what she believed to be her duty, and that was sufficient; the consequences were not her affair. [5]
- That she mistook what really was in his eyes was not material, though he was thinking of days when he believed he had discovered the secret of life--a woman whose life was beautiful; diffusing beauty, contentment, inspiration and peace. [11]
- I believed thou wert dead these seven years, and lo, here thou art alive! [5]
- But these expeditions were trifles compared with the present one; for this one comprised among its servants the very greatest among the learned; and besides it was to go to the utterly unvisited regions believed to lie beyond the mighty forest--as we have remarked before. [5]
- But probably they were rather private citizens on their way to some festival celebrating the victory; for every one now believed in a great battle and a successful issue of the war. [10]
- I am very well satisfied to think the whole population believed in those poor, cheap miracles--a people who want two cents every time they bow to you, and who abuse a woman, are capable of it, I think. [5]
- It was the weariness in his tone that piqued her now, the intimation that he did not believe in her sincerity--had not believed in it from the first. [9]
- He suspected that we were not wholly happy in being winners in such a game,--he even believed that we could wish as much as any others to change the game and the prizes. [9]
- He had no way to tell if internal hemorrhage still went on, but he believed that it had stopped. [13]
- As indeed it was; for as sorely as Tom's hands itched to grab for it they did not dare--he believed his soul would be instantly destroyed if he did such a thing while the prayer was going on. [5]
- Some said it was the softened climate, but others believed it was owing to the habit of keeping their ears open whenever they were walking through the grass or in the woods. [6]
- The prince's tone was so calm and confident that Princess Mary unhesitatingly believed him. [2]
- We believed this was sarcasm, for of course there wasn't any such horse. [5]
- A good post was procured for him, with a rapidity which took away his breath, by some of the gentlemen who had believed him guilty of the offence laid to his charge, and who had acted upon that belief. [12]
- That hired man was probably regarded with suspicion by the family to the end of his days, and if he had been accused of robbing, they would have believed him guilty. [4]
- The transformation, indeed, was more remarkable than he could have believed possible, for respectability itself would seem to have been regained by a costume, and the abundance of her remarkable hair was now repressed. [9]
- I said "petrified" was good; as I believed, myself, that the only right way to classify the majestic ages of some of those jokes was by geologic periods. [5]
- If the latter was falsely believed to be his work, then Proclus's judgment was explained--then--then--- Seized by a torturing anguish, he groaned aloud, and the steward Gras inquired what he wanted. [10]
- I believed I was clinging to the ideal of art, and that all I wanted was a chance. [9]
- If this revelation was believed, it made no sort of impression in the country. [4]
- So far all was believed to be strictly legal. [7]
- A new era was at hand, which they fondly (and very properly) believed was to be a golden era. [9]
- Nobody believed there was any bear in the case; but everybody who could get a gun carried one; and we went into the woods armed with guns, pistols, pitchforks, and sticks, against all contingencies or surprises,--a crowd made up mostly of scoffers and jeerers. [4]
- He believed Boyne was a servant of the French; but unless the facts came out in the trial, they should not have sure origin in himself. [11]
- He believed he was a patriot. [11]
- To this the voice of the priests directed him and the cries of the sacred animals were believed to prove a divinity at hand. [10]
- Everyone believed the victory to have been complete, and some even spoke of Napoleon's having been captured, of his deposition, and of the choice of a new ruler for France. [2]
- It had a very nice bedroom with a wide bed in it; which I said I would take because I believed I was a little wider than Mr. Rogers--which turned out to be true; so I took it. [5]
- And he was very much ashamed of it, and believed he would never tell another. [4]
- I have said, very many times, in Judge Douglas's hearing, that no man believed more than I in the principle of self-government; that it lies at the bottom of all my ideas of just government, from beginning to end. [7]
- Harry was a very entertaining fellow, having his imagination to help his memory, and telling his stories as if he believed them--as perhaps he did. [5]
- One of them ventured a compliment, namely,--that I talked as if I believed what I said.--This was apparently considered something unusual, by its being mentioned. [6]
- Hackett was a vain, wealthy, violent gentleman, who held his blood and family in high esteem, and believed that a reverent respect was due to his great riches. [5]
- Her judgments were usually well founded, and her prophecies had so often come to pass that Anne often believed in them for no other reason. [9]
- There was a use for every one who could heave a stone or flourish a sword; and when he thought over the number of his troops he believed he might succeed in holding the building for some considerable time. [10]
- With Bougainville behind us and Montcalm in front, we might have been checked, though there was no man in all our army but believed that we should win the day. [11]
- It only depended upon whether a suitable room could be found in the crowded city, and Thyone believed that such a one could not be lacking in the great building at her disposal. [10]
- It is not unreasonable that we should have something to say concerning the doctrine to be preached here, that we should insist that that doctrine be in accordance with what we have always believed was the true doctrine as received by this Church. [9]
- His position was undisputed, for the Street believed with the world in the magnitude of that fortune, though there were shrewd operators who said that Mavick had more chicane but not a tenth part of the ability of Rodney Henderson. [4]
- As carts passed under the great archway, its depth multiplied the sounds so powerfully, the echoes were so fantastic, that folk believed them the roarings of fiendish spirits. [11]
- He had believed too much in his fellow-man. [11]
- Mr. Flint had told him, that very morning, of her separation from Jethro, and of the reasons which people believed had caused it. [9]
- When his mother told him what had occurred before Lali entered the breakfast-room, he went directly to what he believed was the cause, and advised tact with conciliation. [11]
- You have reiterated to-day, in no uncertain terms, doctrines which I once believed, which I was brought up to think infallible. [9]
- After the examination to which she had been subjected, Eumedes had believed Ledscha to be as Hermon described her. [10]
- Rawley had trusted to the inspiration of the moment; he had had no clearly defined plan; he had believed that he could frighten the old man, and by force of will bend him to his purposes. [11]
- A cub had to take everything his boss gave, in the way of vigorous comment and criticism; and we all believed that there was a United States law making it a penitentiary offense to strike or threaten a pilot who was on duty. [5]
- It is hard to say if all believed his story, but the Coroner did, and Burlingame, his lawyer, also did. [11]
- When I used to read that such and such a general did a certain brilliant thing, I believed it. [5]
- She had wanted to kill him, yes, to kill herself--but how could he ever have believed that she would stoop to another method of retaliation? [9]
- Was this due to jealousy or merely wounded vanity at being supplanted in a heart which he firmly believed belonged, though only in bitter hate, solely to him? [10]
- And it seemed to her, though she had never philosophized it, that a marriage such as she believed she had made was the woman's way to the greatest happiness and usefulness. [4]
- It angered her to have the great sovereign denied his due reverence in her own home; but secretly she believed in the breach of faith. [10]
- Clemens would seem to have believed that the business would resume, and for a time Rogers appears to have comforted him in his hope, but we cannot believe that it long survived. [5]
- Tom Peters began to feel this, even at a time when I believed myself still to be genuinely fond of him. [9]
- If he omitted to do so, then she would consider it decided that he renounced his earthly for his heavenly love, and try herself to give up the earthly one, in which, however, she believed she had recognised something divine. [10]
- She believed that to do so would accord with the wishes of the departed. [14]
- She expected him to do it, believed that he could, said that he would, herself arranged the day and the hour, and sang so much exaltation into him, that at last a spurious power seemed to possess him. [11]
- He was going to do it as much for her as for himself, and when he had done it, to be proud of it more for her than for himself; he had said so: she believed in him utterly. [11]
- If it came to choice--and it might come to that, sooner or later--she believed she could come to a decision without much difficulty or many pangs. [5]
- He always expected to catch the legendary trout which weighed two pounds and was believed to inhabit that pool. [4]
- I was going to buy a paper-cutter, but I believed I could remember the cold comfort of the Rigi-Kulm without it, so I smothered the impulse. [5]
- He believed himself to blame for this state of things, so the marriage took place. [5]
- He had come to believe that the enterprises in which he was engaged, that absolutely gave him, it was believed, an income of a million a year, were for the public good. [4]
- Pisa is believed to be about three thousand years old. [5]
- He was believed to be a devoted vivisectionist; he certainly had methods of cruelty, masterly in their ingenuity. [11]
- Yet a half-dozen times he was inclined to blurt out to Martin what he believed was the truth. [11]
- At the same time, he believed what the strikers said, and that the trouble was not made by them, but by gangs of roughs acting without their approval. [8]
- For a long time we believed that salvation is gained by works--gifts to the Church, fasts, scourgings, seclusion from the world, self-confinement in a cell--and our wealth went to Rome. [10]
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