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Example sentences for "believed that"

  • He feared to fight with me since, as I learned afterwards, he believed that he would meet his end at my hand, and it was for this reason chiefly that he strove to kill me when first we met.

  • For now as of old de Garcia feared me, now as of old he believed that I should bring his death upon him.

  • It seemed that he thought of it, for he turned and glared at me like a devil, then went on again, leaving me wondering where he believed that he would find refuge.

  • He still had the dramatic ambition, and he believed that he was capable now of constructing a play entirely from his own resources.

  • I believed that he knew more than any person I had met before, and I knew that he knew that I knew less than any person he had met before--though he did not say it, and I was not expecting that he would.

  • This was at the end of February, and he believed that he was standing on the platform for the last time.

  • Furthermore, he believed that a play backed by both their reputations must start with great advantages.

  • He believed that he was ruined forever, so far as his Boston associations were concerned; and when he confessed all the tragedy to Mrs. Clemens it seemed to her also that the mistake could never be wholly repaired.

  • It may well be believed that men of every race and kindred will deplore it.

  • It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious traffic has been brought to an end.

  • Although the Terni is somewhat obstructed, it is believed that it could easily be made navigable for small craft.

  • Sir Ranald Martin, from a consideration of the effects of the climate of India on Europeans and their offspring, believed that there is no such thing as acclimatization.

  • This circumstance, becoming known, rendered him so odious that he had to leave the community in which he practiced, and it is believed that he never entirely recovered from the shock it gave him.

  • By personal observation this man stated that he believed that if he had struck a hard substance his death would have been painless, as he was sure that he was entirely insensible during the fall.

  • He believed that, if he came into the presence of Myrtle Hazard for the third time, he should be no longer master of his feelings.

  • It was treating that as authoritative which, as he believed that he had shown from Scripture, was not so.

  • As a matter of fact, he could have travelled much more rapidly on shore, but he believed that he could hold his own wild crew together to better advantage by keeping them to the boat as much as possible.

  • He believed that he had acted right in that matter, and he was satisfied; but he did not care to have Bellingham, or anybody, perhaps, think he had been a fool.

  • He believed that he had found his place in the world, after a good deal of looking, and he had the relief, the repose, of fitting into it.

  • He said yes, he believed that Mrs. Lapham and the girls were going.

  • His bull-headed pride was concerned in a thing which the architect made him see, and then he believed that he had seen it himself, perhaps conceived it.

  • Rochefoucauld know what had happened to his books: it may well be believed that he also was astonished.

  • It is believed that Madame de Mailly was the cause of this determination of the King; for during the last two or three years she had made changes in her apartments every year.

  • Will it be believed that it was necessary to put all this machinery in motion?

  • Yet, will it be believed that, in that interview, though such was her obvious condition, my perverse spirit found the language of complaint and suspicion more easy than that of devotion and tenderness.

  • I believed that he had approached my wife with evil designs--I believed, without a doubt, that he had passed the boundaries of propriety in his intercourse with her; but I believed not that she had fallen!

  • I discovered, or believed that I discovered, that the world was divided into banditti and hypocrites.

  • Again, it is believed that a man who has been on a journey may have contracted some magic evil from the strangers with whom he has associated.

  • It is believed that in the knot the sorcerer has bound up the life of his enemy.

  • From the earliest times down to the present day many sects have believed that Christ, nay God himself, is incarnate in every fully initiated Christian, and they have carried this belief to its logical conclusion by adoring each other.

  • Among the natives on the Pennefather River in Queensland it is believed that a part of the child's spirit (cho-i) stays in the afterbirth.

  • For it is believed that if any one should, the king shall immediately die.

  • When the king heard him speak thus, he believed that he would prove a hardy and good knight.

  • He sought him everywhere, and when he found him not, he believed that he was caught in a snare, and fell on his knees and prayed.

  • He believed that he knew about where the ambushed man was concealed.

  • He believed that he was drawing the net in now, that it would catch St. Pierre.

  • And Carrigan, after writing of these things, had stuffed his manuscript away in the bottom of his chest at barracks, for he believed that it was not in his power to do justice to the people of this wilderness world that he loved.

  • It is believed that no nut foods are eaten in Bontoc, although an acorn is found in the mountains to the south of Bontoc pueblo.

  • It is believed that it came to Bontoc with the Igorot from their earlier home and is not, as some say, a Chinese invention.

  • He believed that he could show himself openly now, and on the tenth day bartered with some Indians for fresh supplies.

  • And he believed that he had killed the Englishman to steal his identity.

  • In spite of the fact that he had not played his part brilliantly, he believed that he had scored a triumph.

  • Those who practiced it believed that it had been authorized by a divine revelation.

  • He believed that he--ordained a ruler over this world before ever the world was--had been persecuted by the hate and wickedness of men.

  • I believed that no constitutional law of the country could forbid this practice of a religious faith.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    among the; and was; believed himself; believed myself; believed that; bread and; civilized life; constant current; financial crisis; found here; held her; house close; hundred lashes; lies down; making believe; married first; natural features; nine weeks; other articles; passed through; picture book; produced artificially; thousand livres; when they were seated