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Example sentences for "reckoned"

Lexicographically close words:
reckless; recklessly; recklessness; reckly; reckon; reckoner; reckoneth; reckoning; reckonings; reckons
  1. But throughout all their writings the didactic impulse is plainly the preponderating one, their poetry merely auxiliary and ornamental; hence they are not reckoned among poets.

  2. If a moment passeth without opening [to me], behold, ye are reckoned as conquered, and that is painful to the King.

  3. I will try another feat," replied Thor; "and I am sure such draughts as I have been drinking would not have been reckoned small among the AEsir; but what new trial hast thou to propose?

  4. Roman power was now dominant throughout the peninsula to the river Aesis; the valley of the Po, however, was still reckoned a part of Gaul.

  5. Olympiadis=: the Greeks reckoned time by periods of four years, called Olympiads from the Olympian Games, which were celebrated at that interval.

  6. But Trejago pays his calls regularly, and is reckoned a very decent sort of man.

  7. But the country that Dicky came to was a hard land, where "men" of twenty-one were reckoned very small boys indeed, and life was expensive.

  8. The road from Scanderoon to this place lies mostly along the shore of the gulf, at the foot of Akma Dagh, and is reckoned dangerous on account of the marauding bands of Koords who infest the mountains.

  9. The weight of one of these masses has been reckoned at near 9,000 tons, yet they do not form the base of the foundation, but are raised upon other courses, fifteen feet from the ground.

  10. But of the English possessions reckoned up by our author two only .

  11. Mr Eyton here held that Dorchester, Bridport, and Wareham paid a full firma unius noctis each, the total amount being reckoned by him at the astounding figure of £312 (p.

  12. No one can have even glanced at the lists I have compiled without being instantly struck by the fact that the 'service' is reckoned in round numbers, and is almost invariably a multiple of 5, if not of 10.

  13. But here Tong, 'cum appendiciis', is reckoned at twelve car.

  14. Any lesser number was reckoned in our usual manner.

  15. It is a full ploughland, and 200 acres are commonly reckoned to belong to it.

  16. In other words, Perry's lead, as Matt reckoned it, was ten or twelve miles.

  17. Dirk Hawley=, a sporting man who usually gets whatever he goes after; and being both rich and unscrupulous is reckoned a dangerous character to have for an enemy.

  18. The Malabars reckoned it insolent to touch the vessel with their lips when drinking.

  19. I have lately made the important discovery that it is reckoned a cure for the headache.

  20. But, ye see, his mother was just an angel, and I reckoned he'd be half like her.

  21. Thompson, gave us a small piece of a root called fly-root, which is considered to grow from a parasite, and a decoction of which is reckoned by the aborigines an antidote to the bite of the tsetse-fly.

  22. Besides, the smiles of lovely women must be reckoned at something.

  23. Still this class of quacks is rather to be reckoned among swindlers who obtain money under false pretences, than among the bona fide medical quacks that we have in view.

  24. This giddy Brooklyn woman reckoned too much on her influence over her husband, when she expected to soothe his resentment by holding her tongue.

  25. It may be mentioned also that the coal bunkers are now arranged so as to further protect the engines, being reckoned equivalent to about three inches of wrought-iron.

  26. So actively did the English gunners work their pieces, that it was reckoned that during the whole fight they fired at least three broadsides while the French fired two.

  27. In addition to the Tibetan families, however, must be reckoned a great number of lamas, most of whom live in large lamaseries outside the city walls.

  28. This cuts many centuries off the age of the elephant as reckoned by Baber.

  29. Chinese patriotism, for the first time since the history of European relations with China began, is becoming a force to be reckoned with.

  30. East-India Company's accounts the tael of silver is reckoned at six shillings and eightpence sterling.

  31. Thus at length the two offices coalesced and we have seen in the table of officials in 1746 that they were reckoned together.

  32. Calderon was reckoned a skilful exorcist, but he was baffled, as was likewise the Abbot of Ripel, who was called in.

  33. Still, two were reckoned sufficient, unless they were accomplices, when three were required and these supported by other indications.

  34. Locksmiths, masons and other mechanics employed on the buildings were also sometimes reckoned as officials, for their duties in repairing the prisons were confidential.

  35. At first, as we have seen, the alguazil had charge of this and his employees were not reckoned among the officials.

  36. They were reckoned as members of his family, thence obtaining the name of familiars, entitling them to immunity from justice.

  37. The per diem was 9 dineros for men and 8 for women, while Ali Divit, a Moor and presumably abstemious, was reckoned at 5.

  38. I hulloed back, but they couldn't hear, and I reckoned I was done.

  39. I reckoned afterwards it must have been the first mate and the chaps who got away in the other boat.

  40. When waking, I reckoned to hold the gew-gaws whilst my brains were undisturbed, so I kept them under the same thatch.

  41. I reckoned to scare 'em with a bogie, and succeeded.

  42. The conspirators, dumbfounded by the discovery that he whom they reckoned an ally was a declared foe, stopped, hesitated, and then broke, left and right.

  43. Essex, in spite of his almost childish arrogance, was a man to be reckoned with.

  44. These stories are interesting but not authentic enough to carry any weight against the reason which Ralegh himself gives for leaving his work unfinished, though they may possibly be reckoned among the discouragements which he mentions.

  45. The man in the dark reckoned it safest to extend his hand and leave it, to await the first claimant.

  46. But the Earl's shrug as he said this meant that her young ladyship had still to be reckoned with, and that pig-headed young beauties in love were kittle cattle to shoe behind.

  47. Still they were to be reckoned with, and Ruth was within call to supply them.

  48. He had probably noticed my good-sized wad of money, and I guess he reckoned on getting it.

  49. I reckoned that $5000 would be a good-enough pulldown on the race, and I didn't want to take any chances on being shut out of the game down at Alexander Island.

  50. A few years later the tribe is reckoned at four hundred: in a census of the Indian tribes, taken by General Porter in 1829, they are set down at six hundred.

  51. They lost in killed and wounded a number far out of all proportion to that of any other corps before Delhi, and must in truth be reckoned the heroes of the siege.

  52. The towing-path becomes stony and arid; the hedgerows filled with poppies cease, and a very matter-of-fact embankment on the Surrey shore has to be reckoned with.

  53. The crowd now may be reckoned by hundreds of thousands.

  54. More interesting to the general public is Chelsea Hospital, the grounds of which should be reckoned among the parks of London.

  55. But in so doing he reckoned literally without his host.

  56. She was a factor to be reckoned with, and if he was a judge of the human countenance she was about to enforce that view.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reckoned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.