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Example sentences for "generally supposed"

  • There are more Southerners, especially border State men, in the Union army than is generally supposed.

  • It is impossible to ascertain approximately the amount of copying that went on in Rome, but it was probably far less than is generally supposed.

  • There are eight complete tragedies and one praetexta, the Octavia, which is generally supposed to be by a later hand, as well as considerable fragments from the Thebais and Phoenissae.

  • The first is in honour of the nuptials of Julia and Manlius, who is generally supposed to have been Aulus Manlius Torquatus, an intimate friend of the poet, and a descendant of one of the most noble patrician families in Rome.

  • Euhemerus is generally supposed to have been an inhabitant of Messene, a city of Peloponnesus.

  • Pus is generally supposed to be separated from the blood by the secreting power of the bloodvessels of an exposed and inflamed part, in consequence of their having assumed a new mode of action.

  • The heat, however, of an inflamed part, is generally supposed to be much greater than it really is.

  • The practice has been made trial of, but its expediency appears very doubtful; neither has the success attendant upon it been such as is generally supposed: the post mortem examinations have been very unsatisfactory in some of the cases.

  • It contains also some purely mythological matter which is generally supposed to have come from a separate poem.

  • The sun is generally supposed to pass at sunset into the earth, and to come out next morning at the other side.

  • Strangers meeting may freely ask each other their names, provinces, and even prospects; it is not so usual as is generally supposed to inquire a person's age.

  • Sesostris, who is generally supposed to have lived about 1650 years before Christ, is by most writers described as the king who first overcame the dislike of the Egyptians to the sea.

  • It is generally supposed by the meer Multitude, and even by some of a different Rank, that a false Pleurisy is more dangerous than a genuine, a true one; but this is a Mistake.

  • The Danger of these small Tumours is much greater than is generally supposed.

  • The only difficulty to overcome in this process is, from the chloride of lime not being so easily decomposed by heat as is generally supposed; a solution of it may be kept boiling for an hour without losing its bleaching power.

  • If an examination should prove that the Mayas have borrowed from the Nahuas it would result in proving the calendar and sculptures of the former to be much more recent than has been generally supposed.

  • Or, as is generally supposed, Vitalian may have arbitrarily assumed this to be the intention of their letter.

  • Barking is generally supposed to have been founded in 666.

  • He is generally supposed to have been carried off by the plague of 664.

  • The losses occasioned to stockowners by the diseases of live stock are far greater than is generally supposed.

  • It is generally supposed that by the end of December France, with the exception of the fortresses and districts to be occupied by the Allied Powers, will be freed from the pressure of foreign troops.

  • Cicisbeism is universal at Florence, tho' far from being always criminal, as is generally supposed by foreigners.

  • In brief, man is not so susceptible to the influence of the exterior world as it is generally supposed, for only Time can exercise his sovereign rights upon him.

  • Among the different factors which are generally supposed to be more or less productive of happiness, wealth or its symbol, money, usually represents the enchanted wand that opens the gate to every joy of life.

  • Now Socialism does not, as is generally supposed, preach community of goods; it preaches simply community of profits, and the abolition of capital as a productive agent.

  • In oculis” is generally supposed to mean “as dearly in his eyes.

  • Ignem” is generally supposed to be used figuratively here, and to mean “the flame of love.

  • It is very possible that the present edifice may have been raised on an old foundation, though the bridge built by the Romans is generally supposed to have been higher up the river.

  • This remarkable pile has evidently been raised upon the ruins of some gothic edifice, which again is generally supposed to have stood upon the site of a yet more ancient Roman temple of Janus.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being generally; calls upon; came alongside; comes down; for love; galvanized iron; generally about; generally accepted; generally adequate; generally admitted; generally applied; generally believed; generally considered; generally distributed; generally found; generally known; generally preferred; generally recognised; generally restricted; generally supposed; generally used; honest heart; hypnotic suggestion; succeeding generations; usually single; would walk