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Example sentences for "assumed the"

  • At Darlington he assumed the character of a rat-catcher, and sold a receipt to a gentleman’s steward for a crown: and under this character he travelled forward to Plymouth.

  • Prince David now claiming the title of king, as the heir of his brother, assumed the command of the Welsh, and it needed the constant presence of Edward to keep down the rebellious spirit of the people.

  • Passing through the dominions of the King of Almaine, he assumed the dress of a palmer, but being discovered, was cast into prison.

  • On his conversion he assumed the name of Abd-Alla (servant of God).

  • His ill fame increased in still greater proportion, especially when he assumed the airs of a sorcerer.

  • The monopoly of the trade to the South Seas was granted, and the company, being incorporated by act of parliament, assumed the title by which it has ever since been known.

  • Julian could boast, that before he assumed the title of Augustus, he had carried the Roman eagles beyond that great river in three successful expeditions.

  • Three eunuchs represented the Roman people, and three prelates, who followed the court, assumed the functions of the bishops of the Suburbicarian provinces.

  • He assumed the purple at his head- quarters of Cologne, and his active powers appeared to menace Italy with an invasion, and Milan with a siege.

  • He assumed the name, when the sacrament of baptism was administered to him, of Geronymo a Santa Fe.

  • Before entering on these matters the following letter to his mother will be read with interest, as showing what was in Gordon's mind at the time he assumed the command.

  • The clam of peace and prosperity was once more experienced in the provinces; and many cities, restored by the munificence of Severus, assumed the title of his colonies, and attested by public monuments their gratitude and felicity.

  • After the fall of Perennis, the terrors of Commodus had, for a short time, assumed the appearance of a return to virtue.

  • During his reign, he assumed the appellation of Antoninus, which is employed by lawyers and ancient historians.

  • From some remains of modesty, Cleander declined the title, whilst he assumed the powers, of Praetorian praefect.

  • The magistrates only, at the expiration of their office, assumed the quality of Roman citizens; but as those offices were annual, in a few years they circulated round the principal families.

  • He assumed the garb of a common sailor, and in this disguise reached the Dutch coast in safety, on the Friday after the trial of the Bishops.

  • Many persons who were not obnoxious were glad to ransom their persons and effects by bestowing some guineas on the zealous Protestants who had, without any legal authority, assumed the office of inquisitors.

  • This was in the thirteenth year after that he assumed the government.

  • From the beginning of the world had now elapsed five thousand eight hundred and fifty winters, when Peada, the son of Penda, assumed the government of the Mercians.

  • This year Domitian, the brother of Titus, assumed the government.

  • The different orders of the monks and hermits which originated from his allegorical and mystical teaching, assumed the vows of unconditional obedience and absolute poverty.

  • In order to deceive the cardinals he assumed the appearance of an infirm old man, deaf, blind, and scarcely able to hobble on a crutch; and who desired nothing but obscurity, devotion and repose.

  • The monks lived in monasteries, assumed the vows of obedience, poverty and celibacy, and admitted virgins to social intercourse.

  • When he arrived at majority, in order to express his devotion to the pope, he assumed the title of "Most Obedient King.

  • He assumed the command on the 13th, and immediately formed the plan of his campaign.

  • He assumed the command, and on the instant arrested by their means Savary, minister of police, and some others of the principal functionaries in the capital.

  • Taken from the streets and squares, adopted by the fashionable rhymsters of academies and courtly coteries, the rude Fescennine verse lost none of its license, while it assumed the polish of urbane art.

  • It assumed the dignity of organized speculation in the German philosophies of history, and in the positive philosophy of Auguste Comte.

  • In that society he assumed the pseudonym of Actius Sincerus.

  • Gradually he assumed the style of a finished courtier; and though he never took pay from his Papal or princely masters, no poet carried the art of adulation further.

  • The Tungan leaders, deluded by the inaction of Yakoob Beg into a belief that he was unable to prosecute the enterprise he had undertaken, assumed the offensive, only to be worsted in several minor engagements.

  • Instead of appearing in the light of a suppliant, as according to all precedent he should, he assumed the position of a dictator.

  • It is probable that he had been despatched to the rear, to bring up reinforcements after the defeat at Turfan, and in his absence Hacc Kuli Beg, the Ameer's second son, assumed the command of the army when his father died.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assumed character; assumed command; assumed name; assumed the; came ashore; charcoal fire; coming over; considerable thickness; flaming sword; give you; good news; grafted trees; great impression; hear mass; high altitudes; large fire; late hour; quite safe; rubber tree; second death; seldom found; swooned away; three great; victorious army; your right