Use described in a sentence
Sentences ending with described
- Built on a wide lot, with a garage on one side to the rear, with a cement driveway divided into squares, and a wall of democratic height separating its lawn from the sidewalk, the house may for the present be better imagined than described. [9]
- If the Gospel were indeed true, and if all it promised could ever find fulfilment, it might perhaps be prudent to admit the sinfulness of man and to give up the joys and glories of this world to win the eternal treasure that it described. [10]
- In an extinct variety of the turkey, the top-knot consisted of bare quills surmounted with plumes of down, so that they somewhat resembled the racket- shaped feathers above described. [1]
- The effect of this act upon the loyal citizens of Berlin can scarcely be described. [10]
- And, perhaps fortunately, they were not there during court week to witness the scenes of license that were described. [4]
- But there, at the parting of the stairs, was the triple-arched window which he had described. [9]
- In accounting for the blunders, and even gross blunders, which, sooner or later, one who writes much is pretty sure to commit, I must not forget the part played by the blind spot or idiotic area in the brain, which I have already described. [6]
- They are a sort of essays, characterised by his own peculiar originality and power, and delivered with a finished taste and ease, which is felt, but cannot be described. [14]
- The state would prove that Laura Hawkins, the prisoner at the bar, a fiend in the form of a beautiful woman, shot dead George Selby, a Southern gentleman, at the, time and place described. [5]
- As regards the presence of the superior bridging convolution, I am inclined to think that it has existed in one hemisphere, at least, in a majority of the brains of this animal which have, up to this time, been figured or described. [1]
Short sentences using described
- Mr. Gould has described (ibid. [1]
- The Cure's has been described. [11]
- Rostov described Denisov's appearance. [2]
- Westring has described (Kroyer, 'Naturhist. [1]
- Strange has described (60. [1]
More example sentences with the word described in them
- Sanity was the word that best described him. [9]
- Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. [2]
- All this he withheld from the older men and merely briefly described the splendid banquet which Caesarion, pallid and listless as ever, had directed, and Antyllus especially had enlivened with the most reckless mirth. [10]
- With these, and with the world at large, her manner might best be described as difficult; and I was often amused at the way in which she contrived to keep them at arm's length and make them uncomfortable. [9]
- I go away with feelings that may be conceived but cannot be described, feeling within myself that desolating truth that my best affections have experienced this night a stifler! [12]
- Then she knew with conviction that the explanation of the automobile had been an excuse; she had comprehended almost nothing of it, but she had been impressed by the facility with which he described it, by his evident mastery over it. [9]
- While she was wiping her eyes, Wolf described the great anxiety which, after Charles's death, overpowered the Quijadas in Villagarcia. [10]
- Has he personages whose acts and talk correspond with their characters as described by him? [5]
- The new scene which would result from this change had been conjured before the Queen's mental vision with marvellous celerity, and she described it in brief, vivid language to the architect. [10]
- The trying months which she had described in her letters to Barine had completely blanched her grey hair, her cheeks were sunken, and a deep line between her mouth and nose gave her pleasant face a sorrowful expression. [10]
- The last point which need be noticed is that fishes are known to make various noises, some of which are described as being musical. [1]
- Take the steamboat which I have just described, and you have her in her highest and finest, and most pleasing, and comfortable, and satisfactory estate. [5]
- If Leonax was what Semestre described him, she would not repel him like the other suitors, whom she had rejected with laughing lips. [10]
- Swiftly he described what happened in the little room at the traitor's tavern, of the momentary reconciliation and the wine that he drank, drugged wine poured out but not drunk by Erris Boyne, and of his later unconsciousness. [11]
- Then I witnessed what Brehm has described, for monkey after monkey, with head raised high and turned on one side, could not resist taking a momentary peep into the upright bag, at the dreadful object lying quietly at the bottom. [1]
- Clemens and Webster were often at the house of General Grant during these early days of 1885, and it must have been Webster who was present with Clemens on the great occasion described in the following telegram. [5]
- Of course, we went to see the houses where these old worthies lived, and the works of art they have left behind them,--things seen and described by everybody. [4]
- But she was well fixed--rich, as she would have described it; for she had lived a steady life, and had banked four dollars every month in New Orleans as a provision for her old age. [5]
- During the occurrence we have described, the king's pioneer and the young wife of Mena were obliged to wait for the princess. [10]
- During the events we have described the house of the charioteer Mena had not remained free from visitors. [10]
- The Acadia College was pointed out to us at Wolfville by a person who said that it is a feeble institution, a remark we were sorry to hear of a place described as "one of the foremost seats of learning in the Province. [4]
- This desirable impression was not lost on Mrs Jarley, who, lest Nell should become too cheap, soon sent the Brigand out alone again, and kept her in the exhibition room, where she described the figures every half-hour to the great satisfaction of admiring audiences. [12]
- All this, so vividly described, seemed to gain a new witchery from his glowing fancy. [5]
- It amused her, too, to see what the domestic difficulties were of which the singer had described himself as being a victim. [10]
- In a conversational tone he described the sufferings of the man in the flannel shirt beside him, but there could be no question of the fact that he did produce an effect. [9]
- Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber (7. [1]
- After the examination to which she had been subjected, Eumedes had believed Ledscha to be as Hermon described her. [10]
- It is akin to those influences a friend of mine has described, you may remember, as coming from certain voices. [6]
- Next he passed to the head, and described in vivid colors, its various pains. [10]
- I went round to its rear, and there I saw the little house described by the sentinel at the chateau. [11]
- But I helped to fish them out of the river, down below the bridge, and then described it to them as well as I could. [5]
- I had to tie my collar on, because there was no button behind on that foolish little shirt which I described a while ago. [5]
- She was nearing thirty, and in spite of her beauty and the rarer distinction that can best be described as breeding, she had never married. [9]
- At this time, they talked over the stories they were engaged upon, and described their plots. [14]
- With joyous confidence they marched forward and, during the journey through the cool night, Ephraim and Nun described to Joshua how they had found Kasana and how she had died. [10]
- His Royal Highness then proceeded to luncheon, which is described by a most amiable Canadian correspondent who sent to his newspaper an account of it that I cannot forbear to copy. [9]
- The tie between them might perhaps have been described as intellectual, for Elsie Shorter professed only to like people who were "worth while. [9]
- Wolf had described them both, and a presentiment told her that something great awaited her through them. [10]
- The evening before their separation, he described with sparkling vivacity, the charms of the Ligurian coast, and spoke of the future as if he were sure of entire recovery and a long life. [10]
- At supper after the opera he described to Dolokhov with the air of a connoisseur the attractions of her arms, shoulders, feet, and hair and expressed his intention of making love to her. [2]
- The power of the newly awakened experiences bore him away also, and he described no less vividly what he had suffered. [10]
- Men such as the ministers who have been described could not fail to exercise a good deal of authority in the communities to which they belonged. [6]
- Then she permitted the messenger to speak, and when the latter again described the events which had occurred in the city of Rameses, and then announced that the fugitives from Tanis would arrive in a few hours, loud shouts of joy burst from the throng. [10]
- He showed Huck the fragment of candle-wick perched on a lump of clay against the wall, and described how he and Becky had watched the flame struggle and expire. [5]
- Five days after the evening we have just described at Rhodopis' house, an immense multitude was to be seen assembled at the harbor of Sais. [10]
- She incoherently described the depths of the forest, her feelings, and a talk with a beekeeper she met, and constantly interrupted her story to say: "No, I can't! [2]
- The tints of the decaying leaves in an American forest are described by every one as gorgeous; yet no one supposes that these tints are of the least advantage to the trees. [1]
- Whoever should take the daughter of the gem-cutter--and he described Melissa once more--would render a special service to Caesar and might reckon on promotion. [10]
- The other, from the countess, described their last days in Moscow, their departure, the fire, and the destruction of all their property. [2]
- But, spite of the clear and glowing hues in which she described her anticipations, her grey-haired listener could not have believed in them fully. [10]
- So completely does the cast-off arm resemble a separate animal, that it was described by Cuvier as a parasitic worm under the name of Hectocotyle. [1]
- What were they that the Most High, whom Miriam and Hosea described as so pre-eminently great, should care for them? [10]
- He said that Thackeray described men from the inside, as it were; through his strong power of dramatic sympathy, he identified himself with certain characters, felt their temptations, entered into their pleasures, etc. [14]
- She described, with tears in her eyes, how painful their parting had been, and laughed again, as she told how an ivy leaf in her hair had nearly betrayed everything to her father. [10]
- The senator had taken his confession as it was meant: if Thomas' daughter was indeed what Orion described her there could be but small hope for his beautiful favorite. [10]
- I felt that such a mine as the one described by Dan would bring a princely sum in New York, and sell without delay or difficulty. [5]
- In conversation I studiously and persistently described the robbers as tramps, camp followers; and among this class the people made useless search, none suspecting the soldiers but me. [5]
- Leaving out unimportant stretches of country and details of incident, I saw and experienced the following described matters and things. [5]
- He praised their strength and stature, described the way to their country as almost inaccessible to a large army, and had plenty of marvellous tales to tell. [10]
- The yard was still as Parfaite had described it-- full of rank grass, through which one path trailed to the open door. [11]
- As he had spoken, she saw it all as he described it. [11]
- The "London Athenaeum" spoke of it as having been described as a "tomahawk sort of satire. [6]
- And all the sorceress said tended to confirm the young woman's confidence in her magic art; she described Orion as exactly as though she saw him indeed in the surface of the ink, and said he was travelling with an older man. [10]
- Dr. Lueger read some of them, and described others. [5]
- Next, we had Sodom and Gomorrah, and "the attempt to discover two or three respectable persons there," as Satan described it. [5]
- It is a significant fact, as shewing the purposes of the above- described projections and excrescences, that these were covered with blood, and were scored and abraded in an extraordinary manner. [1]
- A---- said that she should prefer the good old-fashioned nose-ring, as we find it described and pictured by travellers. [6]
- Joan was ill. She had fallen ill the 29th of March, the day after the close of the third trial, and was growing worse when the scene which I have just described occurred in her cell. [5]
- I know your sacred Scriptures--Is it described in them? [10]
- Mark Twain, in Roughing It, has described that glorious journey and the frontier life that followed it. [5]
- He described the rooms of state in the palace, the late King's apartments, and those of the Prince of Wales. [5]
- It was a room best described by the word "home"--home made more precious by a certain precariousness. [9]
- A long stranger recognized his ulster as soon as he saw the tail of it following me in, but nobody claimed my shirt or my drawers, though I described them as well as I was able. [5]
- For the very reason that it had been described to her as unattainable, it would perhaps be rated at a high value in heaven, and restore to her while on earth the peace she had lost. [10]
- Any detail of railroading that is not troublesome cannot honorably be described as continental. [5]
- The affair lasted precisely a quarter of an hour; it was not the simple operation of couching Mr. C. described, but the more complicated one of extracting the cataract. [14]
- As the heroine's portrait must reveal her true character, so the life represented here must correspond in every line with the civilization of the period described. [10]
- Our stern was pointing straight at the head of the channel; so we must turn entirely around in the puddle--and the wind blowing as described. [5]
- Mandeville described a picture, in which he appeared to have confidence, of a fight between an Iguanodon and a Megalosaurus, where these huge iron-clad brutes were represented chewing up different portions of each other's bodies in a forest of the lower cretaceous period. [4]
- One of the peaks was named for the senator (the one next in height to Mitchell is described as Clingman on the state map), and a dispute arose as to whether Mitchell had really visited and measured the highest peak. [4]
- For the revoked part I substitute the following: That, all provost-marshals and other military officers do prevent all disturbance and violence at or about the polls, whether offered by such persons as above described, or by any other person or persons whomsoever. [7]
- In the above paragraph I have described the first third of the booklet. [5]
- If they come out at a period when curiosity about the region described is predominant, they are fairly certain, no matter how wretched, to achieve temporary success. [4]
- In man, the os coccyx, together with certain other vertebrae hereafter to be described, though functionless as a tail, plainly represent this part in other vertebrate animals. [1]
- There are two or three of these works which can not be included in the class just described. [4]
- William Wetherell, in one of his letters, had described that place as the Threshold of the Nameless Worlds, and so it had seemed to Jethro in the years of his desolation. [9]
- His story flowed on like a song of triumph, and when he described how the holiday procession had carried away Arsinoe and himself, the old woman jumped up from her chair and clapping her fat little hands, she exclaimed: "Ah! [10]
- Then I went on deck, and the scene which I have so imperfectly described passed before me. [11]
- Robert, who went off in the middle of it with his family to the seashore, described it to Honora as a normal week. [9]
- Now, their pretense of wanting to see the fourteen--and the other two whom they had been less lucky with--was that commonest and mildest form of lying which is sufficiently described as a deflection from the truth. [5]
- All the phases of unhallowed passion are described in full detail. [6]
- Of the beauty of the scene, however, I can not say enough, nor can I imagine where those travelers carried their eyes who have described the scenery of the lake as tame or uninteresting. [5]
- From one end of the continent to the other, I am described as a gorilla, with a sort of human seeming about me--and all to gratify this quill-driving scum of the earth! [5]
- Others again spoke of the battle of Salamanca, which was described by Crosart, a newly arrived Frenchman in a Spanish uniform. [2]
- Besides, the safety of society, the decencies of criminal procedure, what we call our modern civilization, all would demand that Laura should be disposed of in the manner we have described. [5]
- That the habit of singing is sometimes quite independent of love is clear, for a sterile, hybrid canary-bird has been described (31. [1]
- On the 9th of November he set out in the barge to explore the Chickahominy, which is described as emptying into the James at Paspahegh, eight miles above the fort. [4]
- To the best of my knowledge and belief, and so far as I can judge from the inquiries I have undertaken, Jethro Bass has made his living and gained and held his power by the methods described in those articles. [9]
- Perhaps she had not that kind of maidenly shyness, sometimes called conventional propriety, sometimes described as 'mauvaise honte' which a woman of the world would have shown. [4]
- But it could not be, and he did not venture to detain her by fresh entreaties after she had described how her aged husband was suffering from her absence. [10]
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