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Example sentences for "conceived"

Lexicographically close words:
conceiuing; conceivability; conceivable; conceivably; conceive; conceives; conceiveth; conceiving; concent; concentered
  1. Madame Savarin had conceived for Gustave Rameau a friendly regard, stronger than that which Mrs. Morley entertained for Graham Vane, for it was more motherly.

  2. Some months ago, one of my colleagues engaged in the political department (which I am not) was sent to Lyons, in consequence of some suspicions conceived by the loyal authorities there of a plot against the emperor's life.

  3. And when eight days were completed for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus; the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

  4. And, behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who is called barren.

  5. I should never have conceived it possible that such living skeletons could exist.

  6. A warrior without fearlessness cannot be conceived of.

  7. To this end, nothing better can be conceived than the publication and wide distribution of Mr. Gandhi's famous book.

  8. It is not to be conceived that all men will do all these things at one time, or that some men will give up all machine-made things at once.

  9. In the second place, he conceived and sketched a form of advance into Germany so far untried in the annals of European warfare, and then proceeded to work it out to the minutest detail.

  10. Incidentally it may be remarked that his determination to gratify the middle class whenever possible played a considerable role in the grandiose scheme of public works conceived and partly achieved by him.

  11. She seems to have conceived a real motherly attachment for me.

  12. DEAR MADAM, I will freely acknowledge that I was not a little surprized and even vexed at finding by your last letter, that you had conceived so strong a dislike to my intended journey.

  13. DEAR MADAM, I am glad to say that my father's fears from my silence these last two posts were without foundation, & am sorry to say that the hopes you conceived from it were not better founded.

  14. We are passive therefore in so far as we are a part of Nature, which cannot be conceived by itself without other parts.

  15. We are only passive, in so far as we are apart of Nature, which cannot be conceived by itself without other parts.

  16. Emotion towards a thing, which we conceive to exist, is more intense than it would be, if we conceived the thing as future V:ix.

  17. Mirth, which I have stated to be good, can be conceived more easily than it can be observed.

  18. But blind daring and fear are emotions, which can be conceived as equally great (IV:v.

  19. No virtue can be conceived as prior to this endeavour to preserve one's own being.

  20. This was a shock to the very edifice of Chinese Government, conceived of as feasible only under the belief that in its helpless condition the Government must accede to anything.

  21. Then he walked in the gardens of the Tuileries, "which in extent, in statues and in fountains, in the appearance of it taking it altogether, far exceeded anything my imagination had conceived concerning it.

  22. The 'mountain air of Jena' was conceived by his physicians to be prejudicial in disorders of the lungs; and partly in consequence of this opinion, he determined henceforth to spend his winters in Weimar.

  23. Voltaire is generally conceived to have invented and introduced a new method of composing history; the chief historians that have followed him have been by way of eminence denominated philosophical.

  24. As this little library had outgrown the accommodation of the common rooms, a daring scheme had been conceived between mother and son,--no less than that he should have a small room set apart for himself as a study.

  25. Colt, when a boy, ran away from home and went to sea, and is said to have there conceived the idea of his great invention.

  26. So the young inventor had conceived the idea of organizing a company to manufacture the machines, and rent them upon a royalty.

  27. For instance, Mr. Byrne conceived the notion of posing children in a big boot, such as appears in two of the accompanying reproductions.

  28. Early in 1875 he conceived the idea of establishing a new national bank, and in the April following obtained a charter.

  29. He is a very good man; but he was scandalised at Lady Juliana's bringing her dogs to church one day, and wrote her what she conceived a most insolent letter about it.

  30. It may easily be conceived of how painful a nature must have been the future intercourse betwixt Lady Audley and her niece.

  31. His father observed his agitation; and, mistaking the cause, felt somewhat softened at what he conceived his son's shame and penitence for his folly.

  32. With these tempers, it may easily be conceived that a thousand trifling events occurred to keep alive the hereditary animosity.

  33. Bassus from the first conceived an ardent boyish attachment for Oswith and a warm friendship for all the English lads, and he continued to be a valued and faithful companion to the end of their lives.

  34. He conceived that the belief in Woden and the Asyniars had suffered a severe wrench when it was transplanted from its native land to a new country.

  35. His eyes fell upon Coelred and Porlor, and he at once conceived a strong desire to secure their services.

  36. To defeat this plan Lilla and Bassus conceived the brilliant idea of imitating the strategy of Narses in the Median Mountains.

  37. I wondered who were the inhabitants of this lake of the dismal swamp, and accordingly pointed out the houses, as I conceived them, to the captain.

  38. It is conceived he will, with difficulty, find men and money for another campaign of that already on his hands; and all the world sees it is not for want of will, that he puts up with the daily known advantages afforded us by his neighbors.

  39. Deprived of any intelligence from you, since the first of last November, and without remittances, we are left in a situation easier to be conceived than described.

  40. The Duc d'Orléans conceived himself to have lately received a fresh provocation, and an additional motive for revenge.

  41. He cancelled the resolution of the Parliament, and showed such countenance to the culprit that d'Aiguillon, who was both ambitious and covetous, conceived the idea of supplanting Choiseul in the Government.

  42. But the only durable result which arose from his stay in France was the sincere regard and esteem which he and the queen mutually conceived for each other.

  43. It was, at least, equally fortunate that the king also conceived a great liking for his brother-in-law at first sight.

  44. As sovereign and brother she conceived that Leopold had a right to interfere to insure the safety of his own sister and of a brother sovereign; but she never desired him to interpose for any other object.

  45. He also reported to his imperial mistress that he had found out that King Louis had conceived the same opinion of her, and had begun to discuss affairs of importance with her.

  46. Of the king himself he conceived a favorable estimate.

  47. As, however, the cardinal's extravagance had left him with little means of supplying her necessities, Madame La Mothe conceived the idea of swindling Boehmer out of his necklace, and of making de Rohan an accomplice in the fraud.

  48. She had conceived a great desire to learn to ride.

  49. Either Azazel is to be regarded as the name of an evil spirit, conceived of as dwelling in the wilderness, or else it is to be taken as an abstract noun, as in the margin (R.

  50. Yet when they appear to be written for this cause, that we deeply considering the contents of the same, should provide for the tranquillity of our own conscience, and should purge such scruples and doubts conceived of our cause of Matrimony.

  51. My aunt and uncle had conceived no plans in life for their daughters at all.

  52. I had met him at the beginning of my career; he read some early papers of mine, and asked to see me, and I conceived a flattered liking for him that strengthened to a very strong feeling indeed.

  53. As we felt our feet, I developed slowly and carefully a broadly conceived and consistent political attitude.

  54. Cola di Rienzi conceived Italian unity, with Rome as capital, four hundred years before Cavour and Mazzini.

  55. He wrote and spoke to, almost touched, his genius, who often resembled his former Messaggiero, and suggested to him ideas which he had not conceived before.

  56. In June, 1631, Hevelius conceived the first ideas of selenography.

  57. A patient whose conversation and flashes of wit had struck me, sometimes turned out, after his recovery, to be a very ordinary man, far inferior to the opinion I had conceived of him.

  58. A man of talent, subject to attacks of mental exaltation, had several children, of whom two, conceived during these attacks, were insane.

  59. Alfieri composed or conceived his tragedies while listening to music, or soon after.

  60. Yet this was the man who had intuitively divined the admirable theory of painful sensations in sleep already alluded to, and who, a physician, and one of no mean distinction, had clearly conceived the sympathetic action of the solar plexus.

  61. Milton’s great poem was conceived in the spring.

  62. Cardan conceived the idea of the education of deaf mutes before Harriot; he caught a glimpse of the application of algebra to geometry and geometric constructions before Descartes.

  63. Hogarth conceived his grotesque scenes in a Highgate tavern, after his nose had been broken in a dispute with a drunkard.

  64. One day, having seen a notice posted up in the square, “House to let for the poor,” he conceived the idea of making it into an asylum.

  65. It is said that Marion Delorme met, in a madhouse, with the first man who conceived the idea of applying the forces of steam to the needs of industry, Salomon de Caus.


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    Other words:
    ascertained; comprehended; conceived; fabricated; invented; realized; recognized; understood