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Example sentences for "said"

Lexicographically close words:
saha; sahib; sahiba; sahibs; sai; saide; saidest; saidis; saids; saidst
  1. Having said this, Mahadeva disappeared then and there.

  2. It is said authoritatively that herbs and vegetables, deer, birds and wild animals constitute the food of all creatures.

  3. Having said this in anger, and being reprimanded by the attendants, the Brahmana sage of austere penances, retired in silence into the woods.

  4. And having said so Narada became silent, and hearing what Narada had said the king of the Kuru race walking round Sivi, and praising his numerous achievements, gave him the way and went on in his course.

  5. And, having granted that eternal weapon, he also said unto me, This must never be hurled at mortals.

  6. It is said that even boys are not to be slighted,--for a fire, small though it be, burneth on being touched.

  7. After the sons of Pandu had given up the chase and said these words, they entered the grove which contained their hermitage.

  8. I rather think I have, too," said Jimmy, "once or twice.

  9. I don't suppose anything ever does pass or ever will," said Jimmy.

  10. The wronger it is the better man the vicar will be afterwards," said Jimmy.

  11. I'm not particularly spooky myself," said Jimmy, "but we might try.

  12. That," said Sir Evelyn firmly, "would be totally impossible.

  13. Mrs. Eames," said Lord Colavon, "I really must speak to the vicar for a minute.

  14. He can't be a policeman," said Mrs. Eames.

  15. If I could get a grip on that craggy bit that is sticking out," said Jimmy, "I could pull myself up into the hole.

  16. Duty is duty, my lord," said the officer apologetically.

  17. Very kind of his lordship to say so," said Hinton.

  18. Mr. Linker will no doubt furnish his account in due course, my lord," said Hinton.

  19. In its deliberations, he said that everything had been conducted with marked propriety and dignity.

  20. Because," said he, "distant as I am from Pittsburgh, more inspiration in artistic and intellectual things has come to me from that city than from any other place in America.

  21. Illustration: Pittsburgh, showing the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers] II It has already been said that the city is a gateway from the East to the West and South, and as such it is the center of a vast railway system.

  22. And again I remember that thou hast said that thou hast loved the world, even unto the laying down of thy life for the world, that thou mightest take it again to prepare a place for the children of men.

  23. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.

  24. It may be said at the outset that the attempt here made is to present in order and to hold up, as the answer to all the problems of life, the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as restored to the earth through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

  25. What is said by Sprat of his conversation, that no man could draw from it any suspicion of his excellence in poetry, may be applied to these compositions.

  26. But, as is said by his Sebastian, What had been is unknown; what is, appears.

  27. But after so many inauguratory gratulations, nuptial hymns, and funeral dirges, he must be highly favoured by nature, or by fortune, who says any thing not said before.

  28. She is," said Waller, "like the greatest woman in the world.

  29. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before.

  30. And I do hereby further promise and engage myself, to make up the said sum of two hundred and fifty guineas three hundred pounds sterling to the said John Dryden, esq.

  31. Her mother's set a table out under the trees," said Gertie.

  32. I never saw such yellow hair, but Mr. Wolf said it was really hair.

  33. They aren't much," he said apologetically, "but I wanted to bring you something.

  34. You said Miss Burton and Cousin May and Marian Morton and Papa and Grace Dart and Ernest--so there!

  35. When the child had finished, she said gravely: "Jane, will you do me a favor?

  36. He wouldn't like it if he knew I told you," said Chicken Little ruefully.

  37. Girls," said Mrs. Halford with a twinkle in her eye, "stand up together there.

  38. I could carry Pete," said Chicken Little.

  39. Katy said brides wouldn't be happy if they didn't," explained the child.

  40. Mother said she wished we'd bring her some if we saw any.

  41. A very worthy man, professor in one of the royal colleges, said to me: 'What backward steps we have been obliged to take!

  42. In establishments where there are several professors "one of them will be annually directed to teach the said doctrine.

  43. You must praise the Emperor more in your pastoral letters," said Réal, prefect of police, to a new bishop.

  44. Henceforth mass is said every Sunday in each village, and the peasants enjoy their processions on Corpus-Christi day, when their crops are blessed.

  45. But notwithstanding that this is said in the pastoral letter, it is again said in the catechism.

  46. Your yourself could not have said that better.

  47. Footnote 6129: Napoleon himself said this: "I want a corporation, not of Jesuits whose sovereign is in Rome, but Jesuits who have no other ambition but to be useful and no other interest but the public interest.

  48. Obligation, said the Roman jurists, is a lien of law" by which we are held to doing or suffering something to free us from indebtedness.

  49. This double personal conviction is in the back-ground of his thinking, when he drafted the Concordat: "It will be said that I am a papist.

  50. Williams has said is true; and further, that the Chinese will indulge in falsehood, not merely for gain or to carry out some corrupt purpose, but for the mere pleasure of romancing, or to gratify and oblige a friend.

  51. He said to one of the Jesuit missionaries at Pekin, that "the Emperor himself cannot put a stop to the evils that exist in the service.

  52. Now, Hong Kong may be said to be, and is, in fact, the headquarters in China of the opium trade.

  53. This is what he says on the subject:-- As a great deal of misconception prevails in the public mind upon this subject, I would beg to confirm what Mr. Lay has said as to the views of the Chinese Government in the matter.

  54. What for," said he, "you say my no talkee lie?

  55. But it is said of Sir Rutherford by the agents of the Anti-Opium Society, with the view of discrediting his testimony, that he has changed his opinions; that formerly he was opposed to the trade which he now defends.

  56. Take away your opium and your missionaries," said he.

  57. But how can it be said now that their property is protected when this piratical fleet, like a bird of prey, hovers round the colony, pouncing down upon the native craft going to or leaving the port?

  58. It'll make a lot of litter," said her mother, but she brought the needle, for something to do.

  59. Come on out the front door if you're going," said Mary.

  60. It don't seem to me Christmas is a thing for the churches to decide about," said Simeon, thoughtfully.

  61. I think not," said Ebenezer; "you don't need me.

  62. Every headlong thing I've ever done I've gone headlong over," he said gloomily.

  63. Emily," said Mis' Moran, "put on your hood this minute.

  64. Step right in this way," said Mary; "this door's unfastened.

  65. No," said Mary Chavah, "I started for it.

  66. And this we bear record with words of soberness, that the said Smith has shown unto us, for we have seen and hefted, and know of a surety, that the said Smith has got the plates of which we have spoken.

  67. I know it will be hard for many to work with the new men who have undertaken the conduct of the government," said the appeal, "but I appeal to their love for our people.

  68. The liberal bourgeois and the Socialist press said in effect: "And so this is our new democratic Chancellor who advises the House of Lords to block an honest democratic reform of Prussia's iniquitous franchise system.

  69. A Berlin millionaire said to the writer in March: "If it comes to a question of choosing between Bolshevism and Allied slavery, I shall become a Bolshevik without hesitation.

  70. The Kaiser, said Marum, had, in common with all Germans, learned much, and it would be a great risk to try to force a republic upon an unwilling majority.

  71. That international Socialism is inimical to nationalism and patriotism has already been pointed out, but a word remains to be said on this subject with reference to specific German conditions.

  72. Er hat nur seine verdammte Pflicht und Schuldigkeit getan (he did only his accursed duty), said the King.

  73. The blockade should have been foreseen," said the manifesto.

  74. The people's initiative was one of the various concessions to the Socialists of which more will be said later.

  75. Their number was said to reach nearly four hundred.

  76. They are the least of the problems facing the world today as the result of the war and--this must be said now and it will eventually be realized generally--as a result of the Peace of Versailles.

  77. The blockade, said Lord Henry, was the Bolshevists' best friend and had no purpose except to enable England to cut off her own nose in order to spite Germany's face.

  78. The appointment, said Gerard, would have redounded to the benefit of Germany and the prisoners.

  79. The message was brief; Hindenburg, said Major von Busche, had become convinced that a request for an armistice must be made.

  80. One of the chief speakers, a soldier, reminded his hearers that Wilson had said that a peace of justice was possible for the Germans only if they would take the government into their own hands.

  81. Received of the gift of Watir Gardynar, to the making of the rode-loft in the middle isle within the church, as more plainly appeareth by acquittance made by the said churchwardens to the said N.

  82. Payed for scouring of the laten bolls in the said loft, iiiiᵈ.

  83. The principal use of these lofts was for the solemn singing of the Epistle and Gospel; but, as I have said before, the lessons and the great antiphons, &c.

  84. To ye said Stephin, for mendyng yᵉ herne wark in yᵉ rode lofte, £0.

  85. On examining her private note-book, it turned out that she had not said the three Offices.

  86. One of the most experienced priests in New York tells us that for five priests that have died in his house he has not known ten Masses to be said at the request of the laity.

  87. Footnote 1: La Harpe said that these last twenty lines were the most beautiful verses in the French tongue.

  88. Masses should be said "for his soul's health while the world shall endure.

  89. I saw how much I had to atone for; and I reflected on how few Masses would be said for me, and how few prayers.

  90. Osteopathic journals have published again and again the nice things a number of governors said when they signed the bills investing Osteopathy with the dignity of State authority.

  91. If any one doubts that some Osteopathic schools are conducted from other than philanthropic motives, let him read what the Osteopathic Physician said of a new school founded in California.

  92. In a recent medical journal was an article by a St. Louis physician, which said the situation among medical men of that city was "appalling.

  93. That circular letter from the secretary of the American Osteopathic Association said that one of the greatest needs of organization was to preserve Osteopathy in its primal purity as it came from its founder, A.

  94. The president of a St. Louis medical college once said to a large graduating class: "Young men, don't go to your work with timidity and doubts of your ability to succeed.

  95. The journal said these were the names of Osteopaths whose addresses were lost and no communication could be had with them.

  96. Perhaps they should, and no doubt it would be much better for the profession if many of the things said by leading medical men never reached the thinking public.

  97. He said he was like the general of the old rhyme who "marched up the hill and--marched down again.

  98. Contrast such frankness with the gush of the writer who, in the same organ, said 99 per cent.

  99. Most of it was from the journal of the editor who said he refused to send it to a layman who had sent his money in advance.

  100. They all said there was atrophy of the muscles of the left leg, and predicted that complete paralysis would surely supervene.

  101. About the break of dawn I was awakened by my servant, who said to me: "Lieutenant, the wind blew your back gate open last night, and a buffalo has come in and taken refuge under the shelter of the fence.

  102. Heart Lake is a charming sheet of water, nestling as it does among these heavily timbered mountains, and it is said to have an abundance of fine trout.

  103. It was once thought that the buffalo performed annually extensive migrations, and it was even said that those which spent the summer on the banks of the Saskatchewan wintered in Texas.

  104. I asked my packer if he wanted to go and interview the visitor; he said he had not lost any grizzlies, and we concluded that our blankets were more comfortable than the unknown quantity of a grizzly in the dark.

  105. In the higher regions of the Gallatin they may occasionally be seen, and, indeed, this may be said of the summits of most of the peaks throughout the Park.

  106. It is said that on the summit of one of the Tetons there is an inclosure made of rocks several feet in height, built by what long-vanished and forgotten race of builders no man will ever know.

  107. Many things were said to me, first and last.

  108. This Blackfoot had never heard of Uncle Remus's tales, but he imitated Brer Rabbit--laid low and said nothing.

  109. One Sunday morning he said he would go out and catch a string of trout, that we might have a change of diet.

  110. I should have said earlier that the gathering of yesterday had dispersed during the night, and now little bunches of three and four goats could be seen up and down the canyon.

  111. Much has been said and written about the size and weight of the grizzly bear, and in most instances this has been mere guesswork.

  112. Describing the abundance of buffalo in a certain region, an Indian once said to me, in the expressive sign-language of which all old frontiersmen have some knowledge: "The country was one robe.

  113. It can scarcely be said that Science and Art have as yet any place in America; or if they have, it is by virtue of their prospective value, as with the bonds of a Pacific railway.

  114. As some one said of love, "all other pleasures are not worth its pains.

  115. Something was then said about the great Unitarian Convention held at Cork, Ireland, two or three years before.

  116. Well," said I, "I hope Johnny gave that Barnabee boy a thrashing.

  117. Deacon Lee had a brother living in Boston who was said to be a very rich man.

  118. She said he should not have allowed himself to be deceived and influenced by Prudence.

  119. But she said no more, and I could not tell her the trouble then.

  120. Now, my doctor would call it nervous sensitiveness; but then people did not give fine names to their humors, and mother only looked sorry, and said she was afraid I was growing ill-tempered.

  121. She said afterward that I looked more like a ghost than anything else.

  122. Tis a mutinous request of Hollock," said he, "that strangers should not command Netherlanders.

  123. The honest man came to me at Bommel," said Leicester, and he assured the government that it was in the hope of persuading the magistrates of that and other towns to imitate his own treachery.

  124. If the Spaniard have such a May as he has had an April," said Lord North, "it will put water in his wine.

  125. The lewd villain who gave up Grave," said he, "and the captains as deep in fault as himself, shall all suffer together.

  126. We wish to show your Excellency," said he to Leicester, "that we are not sound asleep.

  127. Since I was born, I did never see any man behave himself as he did," said the Earl.

  128. Tis a most courageous fellow," said Parma, "but rather a desperate highwayman than a valiant soldier.

  129. Never, said he, was "the Prince of Parma so dejected nor so melancholy since he came into these countries, nor so far out of courage.

  130. It was said that this breach of truce had been begun by the Spaniards, who had fired first, and had been immediately answered by the town.

  131. You have a good heart, Mr. Chillingly," said she, somewhat abruptly.

  132. Heaven grant that they will not consent, or if they do, what--what is to be said or done?

  133. I think," said Kenelm, "that I will take the liberty of showing it to Mrs. Cameron.

  134. Don't despise me as your own work: you said to me that terrible day, when madness was on my brow and crime within my heart, 'I will be to you the truest friend man ever found in man.

  135. He said to himself, "Whatever she may give me in money, I shall amply repay in worldly position if I succeed, and succeed I certainly shall.

  136. And it said to her reproachfully, 'Ungrateful woman!

  137. The other day you proposed an excursion to the site of the Roman villa, and said you would ask Mrs. Cameron to be of the party.

  138. Art thou so dull,' said the beautiful visitant, 'as not to comprehend that the earliest instincts of the fairy child would be those of discontent, at the exile from its native home?

  139. Therewith Will's voice thickened; and he prudently receded, with no unreasonable fear lest the punch might make him too demonstrative of emotion if he said more.

  140. As one of his political opponents said of him in detraction at this time, "the Prime Minister had all Italy in view, and was preparing for the future kingdom.

  141. He said to Manin, "It is well known that the sympathy of France, when she possesses liberty of action, is never without results.

  142. It is said that he ever afterward kept the shot-riddled uniform of the boy in a glass case in his bedroom, a relic and reminder of heroism.

  143. He said that he needed only a place to write and a few pennies to buy cigars.

  144. He was always courteous and at his ease, easily approachable and interested in whatever might be said to him.

  145. Could his marvelous meter, which has been said in its "plunging" to suggest a charge of horses, have been meant other than to drive his countrymen to self assertion?

  146. Margaret Fuller said that at this time his face, haggard and worn, seemed to her "more divine than ever.

  147. The French Minister, Count Walewski, said for Napoleon that France could not plunge into war on Piedmont's account, and that Piedmont was not entitled to a voice in the Congress.

  148. The King of Naples said that Garibaldi was a blind; behind him was ranged Piedmont, intent on the fall of his dynasty.

  149. It has been said that Manzoni's death evoked a greater unanimity of sentiment than has been called forth by that of any other great author of modern times, except possibly by that of Sir Walter Scott.

  150. When Victor Emmanuel visited Milan in 1859 he said that he should like to meet the poet, and, when told that the latter was ill, declared that he would go to him.

  151. That will be a great pity," said Mr. Tippengray, "for fiction makes up such a large part of our literature.

  152. I do not like Lethbury," said Mrs. Cristie.

  153. That will never do," said Ida Mayberry, who had been earnestly regarding the situation.

  154. Oh, he's too hot to teach anything," said Lodloe.

  155. You are about the newest as well as the stalest thing here," said she.

  156. Leave them alone indeed," she said to herself.

  157. Madam," said Lodloe, "you left that little creature in my charge, and it never entered my mind to hand it over to anybody else.

  158. The odd part of it is that so few people go to the Squirrel Inn," said the lady.

  159. He must be a ridiculous old crank," said Lodloe, drawing a camp-chair near to the lady, and seating himself thereon.

  160. It was not Patagonia," said Mr. Petter; "it was Nicaragua.

  161. Nettle fiber is said to be coming into great favor for the manufacture of fine yarns and tissues.

  162. Of the relation of the starch in the leaves to that in the underground stem something may be said later in this paper.

  163. The name Fura is said to be a native corruption of the word Afur, by which the Arabs of the sixteenth century called the district, and that to be the Saharan or south Arabian form of the Hebrew Ophir.

  164. Many deep-sea animals present archaic characters; still, the deep sea can not be said to contain more remnants of fauna which flourished in remote geological periods than the shallow and fresh waters of the continents.

  165. It is also asserted that two men realized a fortune of thirteen thousand dollars as the result of their combined season's work, and two others are said to have rocked out forty-five hundred dollars in the period of a month.

  166. Corfield said he had found salicylic acid in the lighter wines and beers.

  167. At a recent hearing before an English Official Committee on Preservatives and Coloring Matters in Food, the representative of an eminent firm of preservers said that preservatives were not very generally used with fruits and jams.

  168. There is very little to be said about surfaces or forms of two dimensions.

  169. A large model of the apparatus has been constructed, and it is said to work with entire success under all kinds of conditions.

  170. The speaker said that "with all our privileges, and in spite of the elevated spirit that undeniably prevails among us, the original savage lurks in the hearts of men here as elsewhere.

  171. The same could be said of the arts and professions.

  172. If igneousness is said to be the being of fire, whiteness is also the being of white lead.

  173. What is above Intelligence is Unity itself, an incomprehensible miracle, of which it cannot even be said that it is essence, lest we make of it the attribute of something else, and to whom no name is really suitable.

  174. This substrate could not properly be called big or little; it is simultaneously big and little (as said Aristotle).

  175. Deprived of their unity, they would cease to be what they are said to be.

  176. For the present, we have said all that relates to the question in hand.

  177. Let us first consider if it may be affirmed that all souls form but one in the sense in which it is said that the soul of each individual is one.

  178. Body and heat combined will not constitute being; but heat will exist in the body as in you exists the property of having a stub nose (as said Aristotle).

  179. That is why Plato[299] said that matter is perceived by a "bastard reasoning.

  180. If, however, it be said that combustion is an act emanating from reason, that being hot and white are actualities, we could not find anything to explain quality.

  181. Last, we have the divine Plato, who has said so many beautiful things about the soul.

  182. Come," said he, "we will have our conversation in another room.

  183. I am sure he said kiss and I am sure he said kill.

  184. He said nothing and plainly showed by his changed manner that he was in haste to land now and be done with this doubtful adventure.

  185. He has said nothing in his delirium to show that he knew it.

  186. A man gave it to me for Mr. Grey; said we were to place it there.

  187. Mr. Durand said nothing further, and together we passed down the hall.

  188. Mr. Grey is coming," said I, approaching the waiter and handing him the stiletto loosely wrapped in tissue paper.

  189. So that Mr. Durand is shown the same consideration, I am content," said I.

  190. You will need these for your journey," said the man.

  191. In that case I shall have a barricade thrown up fifty feet down the mountain-side," said he.

  192. But a woman has done it," said I; "a nurse from the hospital went up that very road last week.

  193. He received a good education, and is said to have been instructed in philosophy by Plato and in eloquence by Isocrates; but it is more probable that he privately prepared himself for his brilliant career.

  194. Said he: "The high-mindedness of antiquity showed itself in a disregard of small things; that of the present day shows itself in license.

  195. In the Grecian republics eloquence as an art may be said to have been born.

  196. Nor can it be said that all of them advanced science.

  197. The same may be said of Horace: it is his elegance of style and language which makes him immortal.

  198. The master heard this observation, and said to his disciples: 'What shall I practise, charioteering or archery?

  199. Cicero said of him, "Socrates brought down philosophy from the heavens to the earth.

  200. It cannot be said that he was the founder of a new religion, since he aimed only to revive what was ancient.

  201. The philosopher was now sixty-nine years of age, and notwithstanding the respect in which he was held, the world cannot be said to have dealt kindly with him.

  202. When he visited a school, it is said that he arose in quiet deference to speak to the children, since some of the boys, he thought, would probably be distinguished and powerful at no distant day.

  203. I have said that the cost of sending gold to India does not generally exceed ⅛d.

  204. It is said that they were “received for many years at all the public offices in Calcutta scarcely excepting the Treasury itself.

  205. As matters now are, there is something to be said for a new Act, which, while leaving administrative discretion free where there is still good ground for this, might consolidate and clarify the position.

  206. Gold which is thus transferred is said to be “ear–marked.

  207. In continuation of what has been said in § 4.

  208. It may be said to correspond, therefore, to the London rate for some comparatively short period—say for fortnightly loans.

  209. Something will be said about this in the concluding paragraphs of this chapter.

  210. In conclusion, something must be said about proposals for a State Bank.

  211. How far these conditions are as a matter of fact satisfied, it is, as I have said above, impossible to know for certain.

  212. If gold were to supplant rupees only and not notes, and were to supplant them to so great an extent that sovereigns would tend to flow out of the currency at times of depression, there might be something to be said for it.

  213. Indeed so long as the currency arrangements are at all like those now in force, this maximum range may fairly be said to be determined by forces outside Government control, namely, by the forces governing the cost of remittance of gold.

  214. My son,' said the old chief kindly, 'you may comfort yourself with the thought that your august father is doing what he finds best in the circumstances.

  215. Then the sooner we act upon that decision the better,' said Malto.

  216. So be it, my friend,' said the king, simply and kindly.

  217. Yes; I 'm going to find out what it all means,' said Alondra firmly.

  218. I said a minute or two since that you were as dreamy at times as any girl.

  219. You said you could take me to King Ivanta, and I don't see how you could make such a promise unless you belonged to the prince's party.

  220. They found it, as Alondra had said they would, splendid sport.

  221. It cannot be said that it was a pleasant experience, and he entered into it with very mixed feelings.

  222. I confess,' said he, 'that I am waiting with the most intense interest to see what developments are in store for us.

  223. I suppose you expect to be rewarded too,' said the young prince shrewdly.

  224. However painful it may be to you to hear it, what I have said is but the exact truth, as I will prove to you presently.

  225. On the other hand, it might be one belonging to his visitors,' said Malto.


  226. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "said" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    enunciated; foregoing; former; lingual; linguistic; named; oral; parol; pronounced; reputed; said; same; sounded; speech; spoken; such; unwritten; uttered; verbal; vocal; voiced


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    said above; said aloud; said bonds; said briefly; said city; said commission; said company; said earnestly; said firmly; said gruffly; said her; said huskily; said laughing; said sharply; said shortly; said steadily; said tenderly; said the elder brother; said the little fellow; said the little robber; said the young doctor; said the young lady; said the young prince; said the young woman; said they; said when