Use selected in a sentence
Sentences starting with selected
- Selected from the Best Authorities. [5]
- Selected Poems, 311, 347. [6]
Sentences ending with selected
- The performers are selected. [4]
- It is merely necessary to select some larger or smaller unit as the subject of observation--as criticism has every right to do, seeing that whatever unit history observes must always be arbitrarily selected. [2]
- On the way he came upon a bush, his gallant horse cleared it, and almost before he had righted himself in his saddle he saw that he would immediately overtake the enemy he had selected. [2]
- Some compulsion must have been imposed upon him when he permitted his son to choose a wife other than the one selected. [10]
- It is a fortunate circumstance that neither in council nor country was there, so far as I know, any difference of opinion as to the proper person to be selected. [7]
- As a subject for the remarks of the evening, "The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions" is selected. [7]
- This was the condition of the case two days after the jury had been selected. [5]
- The trustees were at liberty to do as they saw fit; but, other things being equal, same educational object should be selected. [6]
- The spot for a shanty is selected. [4]
- She had chosen a pleasanter room for the interview than the one Iras had selected. [10]
More example sentences with the word selected in them
- He selected them with great care. [11]
- These various faculties will thus have been continually put to the test and selected during manhood; they will, moreover, have been strengthened by use during this same period of life. [1]
- The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
- Was it you who selected that place for them? [10]
- Though the materials which she selected were not the most costly, her aristocratic bearing made them appear valuable. [10]
- By six we were well over the line, and consulting our chart, we selected a cove behind a headland on our left, which seemed the best we could do for an anchorage, although it was shallow and full of rocks. [9]
- Three other couples were selected, at first with some laughter, but finally with serious consideration, and Uarda's father was sent with the drivers as an escort. [10]
- The original members were selected by an invitation from the American Social Science Association, which acted under the power of its charter from the Congress of the United States. [4]
- The Quaker City was the steamer selected for the great oriental tour. [5]
- This huge document was carried to the castle the next day, March 27th; and there, before a dozen carefully selected judges, the new trial was begun. [5]
- You've selected the very most difficult piece of railroad in Australia for your experiment. [5]
- I selected a very modern and unusual type of man as the central figure of my story. [11]
- And by bringing variously selected historic units (battles, campaigns, periods of war) into such equations, a series of numbers could be obtained in which certain laws should exist and might be discovered. [2]
- He understood the use of tools, and he now hastily selected such as he needed. [10]
- It would teach us a good deal merely to consider the names he has selected as typical, and the ground of their selection. [6]
- What also conduced to Bagration's being selected as Moscow's hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city and was a stranger there. [2]
- Travelers who come to America always freight up with the same old nursery tales that their predecessors selected, and they carry them back and always work them off without any trouble in the home market. [5]
- We went next to a saddler's, where I selected three saddles and bridles of Spanish workmanship, and Mr. Clark agreed to have two of his servants meet us with the horses before Madame Bouvet's within the hour. [9]
- There were one thousand five hundred Patricians; from these, three hundred Senators were chosen; from the Senators a Doge and a Council of Ten were selected, and by secret ballot the Ten chose from their own number a Council of Three. [5]
- The effect of this scrappy, desultory reading is bad enough when the hashed compound selected is tolerably good. [4]
- The Council was then sworn in, and Mr. Wingfield selected President. [4]
- We frequently selected the trout we wanted, and rested the bait patiently and persistently on the end of his nose at a depth of eighty feet, but he would only shake it off with an annoyed manner, and shift his position. [5]
- But Howells thought the title satisfactory, and indeed it was the best that could have been selected for the series. [5]
- On account of the tindery condition of the woods we made our fire on the natural pavement, and selected a smooth place for our bed near by on the flat rock, with a pool of limpid water at the foot. [4]
- He had crossed the threshold of the paraschites most reluctantly, and the thought that he, of all men, had been selected to censure a deed of the noblest humanity, and to bring her who had done it to judgment, weighed upon him as a calamity. [10]
- We had selected the oddest ones we could think of, and when the pastor picked up the slips he read Gerhard and Habakkuk. [10]
- As soon as the king and his retinue had departed, the priests selected, for themselves, the best pieces of the flesh which had been offered in sacrifice, and allowed the thronging crowd to take the rest. [10]
- I had inspected the goods brought from Arabia and India by way of Berenice and Coptos, and had selected those I needed before the vessel that brought them had moored in the Mariotic harbor, and other goods will have reached Alexandria before me. [10]
- During the time that this guard, which consists of the tallest and stoutest men that can be found in all England, being carefully selected for this service, were bringing dinner, twelve trumpets and two kettle-drums made the hall ring for half an hour together. [4]
- It is conducted strictly in accordance with the liturgy of the Church of England, by Mr. Simon Young, their selected pastor, who is much respected. [5]
- Nor is it strange that variations in the tail-feathers of the Urosticte should have been specially selected for the sake of ornament, for the next succeeding genus in the family takes its name of Metallura from the splendour of these feathers. [1]
- It was a strange place of conflict, which the experienced soldier would never have selected voluntarily; for it was enclosed on both sides by lofty, steep, grey granite cliffs. [10]
- Certainly there was something picturesque in the idea of the Missouri private who had been chased for a rainy fortnight through the swamps of Ralls County being selected now to join in welcome to his ancient enemy. [5]
- We must adopt some principle of selection among the books outside of any particular branch which we may have selected for study. [6]
- She loved to sing the languishing hymns which he selected for her. [6]
- If the enemy should concentrate his forces at the place you have selected for a crossing, make it a feint and try another place. [7]
- But, in fact, she selected a reclining posture particularly for the sake of showing her feet; not a woman in Egypt or Greece had a smaller or more finely formed foot than she. [10]
- She selected what she needed, but many of the pewter, glass, and silver articles did not please her; for they did not match, and she found scratches and cracks on numerous pieces. [10]
- He has given seven pages of these symptoms, not selected, but taken at hazard from the French translation of the work. [3]
- Among the things selected was the pearl necklace which Charles had given her, and the only note her royal lover had ever written, which ran, "This evening, quia amore langueo. [10]
- I might have selected rooms, say on the court which looks on the exquisite bronze fountain, Perseus with the head of Medusa, a copy of the one in Florence by Benvenuto Cellini, where we could have a southern exposure. [4]
- Dan and Jack selected from this lot because they brought back Italian reminiscences of the "old masters. [5]
- Dan Beard was selected for the drawings, and was given a free hand, as the next letter shows. [5]
- He selected a professional neckcloth, as spotlessly pure as if it had been washed in innocency, and adjusted it in a tie which was like the white rose of Sharon. [6]
- When he wrote poetry, he commonly selected subjects which seemed adapted to poetical treatment,--apparently thinking that all things were not equally calculated to inspire the true poet's genius. [6]
- Here are selected, picked out by special invitation, the best that society can show, the most intelligent, the most accomplished, the most beautiful, the best dressed persons in the community--all receptions have this character. [4]
- During this same period the Holy Inquisition selected with extreme care the freest and boldest men in order to burn or imprison them. [1]
- He knows these people, he knows the selected locality, and he trusts that he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results. [5]
- They selected a peninsula on the north side of the river, forty miles from its mouth, where there was good anchorage, and which could be readily fortified. [4]
- Well, out of our eight, three were selected to attend to all business connected with the expedition. [5]
- Not in their order, but selected on their merits: Mr. Mayreder (to the President). [5]
- They were more or less duplicates, but as the one to his brother is of fuller detail and more intimate than the others, it has been selected for preservation here. [5]
- She selected six or eight letters from the package and began to devour their contents, heedless of the cold. [5]
- They wanted some one to introduce me, and they selected a miner, who protested, saying: "I don't know anything about this man. [5]
- The Friend selected one of the best engraved of the notes, and appealed to the crowd if they thought that was the square thing to do. [4]
- I went at once to the library, and Unger selected the books which seemed best adapted to give me further instruction. [10]
- The first method of history is to take an arbitrarily selected series of continuous events and examine it apart from others, though there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another. [2]
- If any work of art was ordered by the state, Warner was fairly certain to be chosen a member of the commission selected to decide upon the person who was to do it and upon the way it was to be done. [4]
- Laws of motion of any kind become comprehensible to man only when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous elements. [2]
- From a great number offered to her she selected a red one with a dull red plume. [4]
- The positions are not definitely assigned, and will not be until I announce them privately to the gentlemen whom I have selected as my Constitutional advisers. [7]
- Though she had not been taken into his confidence, she knew the reason that he had been selected to undertake this toilsome journey. [10]
- I selected the most important one in New York. [5]
- We were still more surprised when we came to see the temporary home that Henderson had selected, the place where the bride was to alight, and look about her for such a home as would suit her growing idea of expanding fortune and position. [4]
- Probably no twenty-four men could be selected in the State with whom the people are better acquainted, or in whose honor and integrity they would more readily place confidence. [7]
- A place of meeting has already been selected in each province, the pass-word will be given, and a day fixed for a general rising. [10]
- As he was left free to choose, he instantly selected the clothes a nobleman had ordered for his son, and which, from head to foot, were blue on one side and yellow on the other. [10]
- They would devote it to the relief of suffering--I know that--but the sufferers selected would be converts. [5]
- Else why had it been selected as the scene of this nocturnal trial? [10]
- And his establishment is conducted primarily, and his guests selected, in the interests of his fortunes. [9]
- There was much interest just at this time in the Sandwich Islands, and he was selected by the foremost Sacramento paper to spy out the islands and report aspects and conditions there. [5]
- Beyond there, fell in with two Kahars and a sepoy, and came on towards the place selected for the murder. [5]
- These were selected in the hope of conveying to American readers some idea of the atmosphere, of "what it is like" in these countries under the immediate shadow of the battle clouds. [9]
- Her helpers sat in little circles on the ground; in the midst of each lay a great heap of fresh and dry plants, and in front of each work-woman a number of parcels of the selected roots, leaves, and flowers. [10]
- He took out his pocket-book, selected a slip of paper, and laid it on the table before him. [4]
- He had told himself the same thing when he selected Daphne for a model, and her head reproduced what Proclus praised as the common possession of Daphne and Demeter. [10]
- She went to her dressing-room and selected a street dress. [4]
- She had not heard until the last moment whom her father had selected, and had only seen Pyramus Kogel again while the captain's groom was buckling his knapsack upon the saddle. [10]
- His bow, as he approached the potentate, was neither abject nor awkward, and Caesar felt bitter wrath at the thought that this splendid youth, of all men, should have selected him as the butt of his irony. [10]
- She rose in haste, put on her hat, put it on carefully, turning and returning before the glass, selected fresh gloves, and ran down-stairs. [4]
- And so she had selected "The Child's Garden of Verses. [9]
- However carefully the guests are selected, it lacks the spontaneity that gives intellectual zest to the chance dining together of friends. [4]
- We have also good evidence with domesticated animals, that variations of all kinds are, if not carefully selected, soon lost through intercrossing and accidental deaths. [1]
- They were to go to the particular spots selected North and South, according to the varying seasons of the year. [4]
- Quijada had selected four of her own saddle horses for the stable of the little castle, and supplied it with the necessary servants. [10]
- I shall never forget his joyous mirth as he listened to my delivery of Wolf's translation of Aristophanes's Acharnians; but I was pleased that he selected me to supply the dear blind eyes. [10]
- Never had she felt so irresolute, so deeply agitated, and she uttered a sigh of relief when her father returned from his visit to old Ursel, and praised the care with which she had selected the articles that filled his knapsack. [10]
- This chamber, Quijada explained, he had selected for her by his Majesty's permission. [10]
- It was not even selected out of four hundred. [4]
- I was only endeavoring to show that there was at least as great a probability of any seven members that could be selected from this House being bribed to act corruptly, as there was that the twenty-four commissioners had been so bribed. [7]
- I had to do all the work, and after we had selected the particular "Railroad" judge before whom the case was to be tried, I talked it over with him. [9]
- From the lectures delivered in England he selected a certain number for publication. [6]
- The most careful deliberation could have selected nothing more suitable or becoming. [10]
- Editor of the Courant, Charles H. Clarke, was selected to notify him of his new title. [5]
- I selected a certain horse because I thought I saw him shy, and I thought that a horse that had spirit enough to shy was not to be despised. [5]
- In the above case the victims selected under the tabu would be sacred to the sacrifice] in which destruction impended, was past. [5]
- I lit the candle, made an examination of the rock, selected some specimens, and shouted to Boggs to hoist away. [5]
- I lit the candle, made an examination of the rock, selected some specimens and shouted to Boggs to hoist away. [5]
- They selected the books for you. [13]
- He came out before the luncheon was over, and sorted the hats in the hall, and selected one which suited. [5]
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