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Example sentences for "invested"

Lexicographically close words:
invertebrates; inverted; inverting; inverts; invest; investigate; investigated; investigates; investigating; investigation
  1. It has been remarked, that we did not find her invested with the same authority that she exercised when the Dolphin was at this place, and we now learnt the reason of it.

  2. When they first sailed, it was the opinion of many in prison, that they were invested with full power to settle it; but soon after, we were convinced to the contrary.

  3. Or again, the available cash resources would be invested in provender; and then there would be an outing in the woods.

  4. The element of mystery, which his physical appearance tended not to allay, invested him, as it were, with a thaumaturgic veil through which was dimly revealed the man.

  5. Then suddenly that otherwise too often vacant sheet becomes invested for me with a strange kind of awe.

  6. He was first raised to citizenship, and when that proved inadequate to meet the emergency, he was invested with the right to vote on equal terms with the whites.

  7. It was found, on looking into the business, that the whole of this immense sum was invested in the cotton mills.

  8. Later events, still more inexplicable in their character, and yet unexplained, gave color to this story, and invested it with the elements of probability.

  9. As no chief magistrate before received the suffrages of so many electors, so no chief magistrate was ever invested with such absolute authority.

  10. Hence, we find the elves occasionally arrayed in the costume of Greece and Rome, and the Fairy Queen and her attendants transformed into Diana and her nymphs, and invested with their attributes and appropriate insignia.

  11. Alesia, and the cavalry is sent into the whole of Gaul to call to arms, and to conduct to the succour of the invested town the contingents of all the states.

  12. Pompey himself, then invested with his third consulship, of eternal memory.

  13. The inscriptions and medals show that he was also invested with other dignities.

  14. In such circumstances, the Senate appointed interreges, who, invested with the consular powers, succeeded each other in office every five days.

  15. Caesar, arriving unexpectedly before that town, found it completely invested on all accessible points.

  16. After the war of Gaul, he returned to Rome, and, in the year 707, Mark Antony invested him with the functions of prefect of the town; he was then very aged.

  17. He had hardly been invested with this office, which protected him from the prosecutions of Milo, when he turned round and attacked his accuser, charging him with an armed conspiracy, precisely the same crime with which Milo reproached him.

  18. Meanwhile she had invested her settlement, had prospered, had even married herself, thinking the first marriage void.

  19. One episode consisted of a stock deal between them in which Errol had invested in a stock which Marchant was promoting and was known to be what brokers call "cats and dogs.

  20. Richard drew himself up; he seemed invested almost with a new dignity.

  21. It invested him with noble, valiant pathos which could not, he thought, fail of its effect upon a woman's mind.

  22. The trusty servant in whose charge it was, was actually invested with a species of sacred character in the household, as one whose feet had passed the threshold of the tabernacle.

  23. Cointet to bear all the expenses, the capital invested by David to be confined to the expenses of procuring the patent, and his share of the profits to be fixed at twenty-five per cent.

  24. Sechard invested all the proceeds in the Shepherd's Calendar, and began it upon a large scale.

  25. The former, rising by degrees from the most humble condition, were invested with the civil and military administration of the Roman world.

  26. These young princes were successively invested with the title of Cæsar; and the dates of their promotion may be referred to the tenth, the twentieth, and the thirtieth years of the reign of their father.

  27. It was provided with an arsenal of military engines, and the ordinary garrison had been reenforced to the amount of seven legions, when the place was invested by the arms of Sapor.

  28. From the reign of Diocletian, even these vestiges of liberty were abolished, and the successful candidates who were invested with the annual honors of the consulship, affected to deplore the humiliating condition of their predecessors.

  29. On a sudden the doors were thrown open, and Magnentius, who had retired for a few moments, returned into the apartment, invested with the diadem and purple.

  30. Theodosius was invested with the purple in the thirty-third year of his age.

  31. Whenever they were invested with a discretionary power, they used it much less for the oppression, than for the relief and benefit of the afflicted church.

  32. He was immediately invested in his fortified camp, but he coolly awaited the arrival of General Clinch.

  33. They were, however, soon invested by the enemy, and the few who had taken shelter behind their rude defenses were overcome and massacred by the Exiles, who conversed with them in English, and then dispatched them.

  34. With a force of two hundred and fifty warriors the allies invested this fort, which they supposed to be garrisoned by not more than one hundred men.

  35. Every hour we passed in these solitudes of nature had something of the glamour of romance invested in it.

  36. Thus in a truly feminine fashion she got upon her dignity and invested her championship of Mr. Richardson, and more especially her animadversion of Mr. Fielding, with several palpable references to my recent behaviour in his company.

  37. Before the next comitia consularia assembled, the orator had given so impressive a warning of the danger which was impending, that Catiline was once more rejected (63), and the consuls were invested with absolute authority.

  38. Returned to Soho, Murdock was invested with the general supervision and management of the mechanical department, in which he proved of essential value.

  39. These were, however, the early and primitive days of mining, when the operations were carried on comparatively near the surface, and the capital invested in pumping-machinery was comparatively small in amount.

  40. The rapid extension of the Soho business necessarily led to the increase of the capital invested in it.

  41. Among those invested with the rights of French citizenship were Dr.

  42. The circumstances of the partners being thus in a measure reversed, Boulton fell back upon Watt for temporary help; but, more cautious than his partner, Watt had already invested his profits elsewhere, and could not help him.

  43. It retains the majesty of old religion; it is invested with the joy of newly awakened childhood.

  44. He would have sold his soul to the devil for £1000 could he have induced his Satanic majesty to have invested in so worthless a commodity,’ said one of his own friends.

  45. But the fortune of Miss Nancy, being invested in sugar plantations and such accessories as are necessary for the efficient production of this necessary staple of food, was, alas!


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