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Example sentences for "showed itself"

  • About the same time the infection showed itself at several places apart, especially in the destitute suburb of St Philip, in the south-east of the city.

  • In Dundee, where the proportion of typhus cases was comparatively great, the fever appeared early in the summer of 1842, and raged to a considerable extent during the whole of the autumn, before it showed itself elsewhere.

  • All this, and infinitely more, showed itself to me during a single revolution of the sphere: twenty-four hours it would have been, if reckoned by earthly measurements of time.

  • As for the quick temper (now so slow) I had from her, it showed itself once in a burst of reckless fury which had to be signalized in the family rule, so lenient otherwise, by a circumstantial whipping from my father.

  • The verses should have held New England as it showed itself to the colonists, with all the capricious charges that moved their wonder in the early days.

  • Like the majority of them, he was of good family and of strong individuality, as must needs be where a perpetual defiance is waged against law and order as it showed itself to the Prelatical party.

  • The thought of Diana sitting at table with such a person on equal terms pricked him with annoyance; for he had all his mother's fastidiousness, though it showed itself in different forms.

  • Their knowledge of it, and her silent acceptance of their knowledge, made a bond between her and them which showed itself in a hundred ways.

  • Whenever Fanny softened, it showed itself in a claim to intimacy, as sudden and as violent as her ill-temper.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bark canoe; class movement; coarse pottery; common bird; decimal fractions; deserves notice; ecclesiastical history; healing power; las cosas; make matters; natural power; off with; only yesterday; paper called; receive their; rotatory motion; showed himself; showed itself; showed them; sometimes also; strong effort; the length; times past; told thee