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Example sentences for "accounted"

Lexicographically close words:
accountable; accountancy; accountant; accountants; accounte; accounteth; accounting; accounts; accoutered; accouterments
  1. But we shall not sin, knowing that we have been accounted Thine; for to be acquainted with Thee is perfect righteousness.

  2. The Rabbis only accounted for the sad change by a complete revolution in his nature--so they called him Acher, "another man.

  3. Possibly this may be accounted for by the association of the light-fingered fraternity with Nicholas, or Old Nick, a cant name for the devil, or because The Golden Legend tells of the conversion of some thieves through the saint's agency.

  4. The arms over the court-room door have the motto Pange lingua gloriosa, which is accounted for by the fact that this copy of the clerks' heraldic achievement formerly stood over the organ in the hall.

  5. If Mr. Ford can only succeed in putting better bearings under our railroad-cars his name should be accounted as blessed in our railroad tradition.

  6. And also do not forget that a good proportion of the voting population of any State lives upon the branch lines, which may have accounted in the past for some pretty radical railroad legislation and regulation.

  7. If a balanced crank-shaft is valuable to a rubber-tired locomotive upon a concrete highway, should a device of similar ingenuity and value be accounted an impossibility upon the flange-wheeled one of the steel highway?

  8. But on the other hand how can it be to-day accounted a real success?

  9. The Treasurer certainly by comparison deserves commendation for having accounted for all moneys coming into his hands, being in this particular a remarkable exception.

  10. Jackson, the chairman of the auditing committee, read the report certifying that the books of the Secretary-Treasurer had been properly kept and all moneys accounted for.

  11. The exclusive attitude of the white man is accounted for by the difference in degree of civilization, the so-called superiority of the white race.

  12. He left the office with a spotless record, every dollar of the public funds that passed through his hands, and for which he was liable, having been honestly and faithfully accounted for.

  13. These women were richly attired, and adorned with bracelets and jewels; and this was accounted a great favour, as the women are not usually seen of any but such as the king will greatly honour.

  14. This island produces great quantities of Chindanna, called by us white saunders, of which the largest logs are accounted the best, and which sells at Bantam for 20 dollars the pekul, at the season when the junks are here.

  15. Human life was but little accounted of among the Romans who ruled Palestine.

  16. They who have been “accounted worthy” of the resurrection of life, are “blessed and holy.

  17. The righteous dead will not be raised until after the judgment at which they are accounted worthy of “the resurrection of life.

  18. Those who in the judgment are “accounted worthy,” will have a part in the resurrection of the just.

  19. They would be accounted of heaven as princes, having power to prevail with God and with men.

  20. And those who were martyred for their faith were secured to Christ, and accounted of Him as conquerors.

  21. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

  22. An edict from the king of Scotland declared that “Saturday from twelve at noon ought to be accounted holy,” and that no man, from that time till Monday morning, should engage in worldly business.

  23. Jesus said, “They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, .

  24. They rejoiced that they were accounted worthy to suffer for the truth, and songs of triumph ascended from the midst of crackling flames.

  25. He who is found wanting is cast out, but all who upon examination are seen to have the wedding garment on, are accepted of God, and accounted worthy of a share in His kingdom and a seat upon His throne.

  26. Even in the Passover chamber, at that solemn hour when their Master was already entering the shadow of Gethsemane, there was “a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

  27. To be pricked with figures is accounted a mark of noble rank, and not to be so marked is a sign of low birth.

  28. We add this because, although the certificates are mitigated in their case, and they are not accounted lunatics, yet we regard that degree of visitation by the Commissioners, indicated by Lord Shaftesbury, to be in every way desirable.

  29. If any of their descendants, therefore, become mentally afflicted, the hereditary taint is straightway accounted to them.

  30. These facts are only to be accounted for in two ways.

  31. The interior square represents the proportion of the population which is accounted for as engaged in gainful occupations.

  32. The unshaded space between the inner and outer squares represents the proportion of the population not so accounted for.

  33. And this might be accounted an advantage, if integrity and good faith were of no importance to the world, and to industry and commerce in particular.

  34. She was the flower of France or of five realms, and one of the fairest that was ever formed, the gentlest jewel accounted by lords from Genoa to Geron, by Jesus of Heaven!

  35. We now accounted ourselves round Cape Horn, and so in the South Seas.

  36. As to the opposition given by the remnant of the faction to the repeal of the taxes laid on during the former administration, it is easily accounted for.

  37. The difference cannot be accounted for on the score of extraordinary efforts or extraordinary achievements.

  38. No great increase therefore of bank notes, beyond what the discounting business admits, can be accounted for on the score of deposits.

  39. There was that other check not accounted for yet; and I can't afford to lose any more, and that's a fact.

  40. On what other ground can this circumstance be accounted for, than that she is regarded as a sister-in-law by the sovereign, and as a reputable relative by his family?

  41. The use of grisaille is sufficiently accounted for by considerations of economy and the desire to get light; but it was also in some sort a protest (witness the Cistercian interdict of 1134) against undue indulgence in the luxury of colour.

  42. The roughened inner surface and the adhering particles of sand may also be accounted for.

  43. Six months ago the curtain descended upon what is likely to be accounted the most memorable century in the annals of mankind.

  44. Last Sunday I visited a man who had never heard of such a thing as travelling libraries; he was a German pastor; and probably that accounted for it.

  45. The sensation cannot be accounted for by the thermometer, which still registers a degree or two of frost, but to those who have this weather prescience, it is quite unmistakable.

  46. They need have nothing whatever to do with communications from discarnate spirits, for they can be accounted for by a natural law already known to us.

  47. Of course, by the time the Zeppelins began to visit us, we had all had a good deal of practice in lying, which accounted for the gorgeous oriental colouring of such amazing imaginings.

  48. I had accounted for that at the time by a reasonable explanation, and I could account, also reasonably, for his absence.

  49. All results that can conceivably be accounted for by such well-established phenomena as telepathy or thought-reading must be unhesitatingly ruled out.

  50. Now so far all that had been told us could easily be arrived at and accounted for by mind-reading.

  51. But since her illness her Matilda-ism has been more marked than ever, and I prefer to think that it is Thought which has accounted both for the illness and her abnormal moultings.

  52. Hence my absolute distrust of performances of my own compositions, and this was not to be accounted for by any exaggerated modesty on my part.

  53. He had been in Ireland with his regiment, as I knew, which accounted for my not having seen him.

  54. Had it been any one else, they would not have been cashed without more examination; and on the last occasion he accounted rather elaborately for your drawing such a large sum.

  55. The Buddhist Nirvana resembles the Brahma in being accounted the ultimate principle of the world.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accounted for; accounted worthy