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Example sentences for "carried about"

  • The air is received and held by a covering of fine hairs on the ventral surface of the body, so that a considerable supply may be carried about by the beetle while underneath the surface.

  • The eggs are greenish and are carried about by the mother until the young hatch.

  • Now nearly all men find it difficult to do that name sufficient honour.

  • In other villages of Swabia the part of fool is played by a live person, who is thrown into the water after being carried about in procession.

  • In China a huge dragon made of paper or wood, representing the rain-god, is carried about in procession; but if no rain follows, it is cursed and torn in pieces.

  • It is not pretended that the disease is always, or even, it may be, in the majority of cases, carried about by attendants; only that it is so carried in certain cases.

  • And when they had stripped him, and out off his head, and taken away his armour, they sent it into their land, to be carried about, and shewn in the temples of the idols and to the people.

  • Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

  • And the Gethites answered: Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about.

  • Moon should be carried about it in about 29.

  • She was for this and the like predictings sent by her to Marius and the army, where she was very much looked up to, and, for the most part, carried about in a litter.

  • In Poland a man, with a wolf's skin thrown over his head, is led about at Christmas; or a stuffed wolf is carried about by persons who collect money.

  • When they touch us, virtue passes out of us, and we feel as if our electricity had been drained by a powerful negative battery, carried about by an overgrown human torpedo.

  • The sacrament of the Lord’s supper was not by Christ’s ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.

  • The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or to be carried about, but that we should duly use them.

  • The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper was not by Christ’s ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.

  • The sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or to be carried about, but that we should duly use them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carried about; carried along; carried away; carried down; carried forward; carried off; carried them; century earlier; fare thee; gills decurrent; good cheere; good friends; hard lines; hath turned; lovely girl; man shall; over the; rejoiced greatly; showing the; sthetic sense; such men; though less; tropical countries; what says; when seen; world empire