Raised

Examples

• But he had shut it down again, if that were so; and it looked as if it had not been raised. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Holmes glanced at it, raised his eyebrows, and handed it over to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Who raised her head upon his coming in and asking: 'Where did you go, Liz? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was afterwards gradually raised by hydraulic presses to the top, a height of 100 feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• She raised her eyes to my face, on being thus addressed, and her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Whether from awe or pity, nobody raised the price on him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Queer sort of company, too, for a man who has raised himself! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• At length he roused himself to explain that he wanted money to be raised on this watch. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Where was you raised? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He thinks it is like bran, raised with sour yeast. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Grand Master then raised his voice, and addressed the assembly. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• For answer the girl raised her revolver and fired point-blank at him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The economic conflicts are at once raised to a plane of research, experiment and honest deliberation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Casaubon must have raised some heroic hallucination in her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Suddenly he raised his bearded face, saw us close to him, and pulled up, springing from his machine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• H ow are strata raised from the ocean bed? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Tom rose up meekly, to follow his new master, and raised up his heavy box on his shoulder. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He was smoking a cigarette and he held a bowl of coffee in one hand and blew smoke onto its surface as he raised it to his lips. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• One Sunday night my mother reads to Peggotty and me in there, how Lazarus was raised up from the dead. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He raised himself in his stirrups with an air of inexpressible dignity, and exclaimed, What means this, my masters! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mr. Yorke raised his hat, wiped his forehead with his handkerchief. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Assuredly, brother, said Isaac, and Heaven be praised that raised me up a comforter in my misery. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Some conception of the enormous scale upon which grain is raised in the Western States may be gotten from the dimensions of the farms. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Taking the brewery on my way back, I raised the rusty latch of a little door at the garden end of it, and walked through. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He watched me, still; he gently raised his hand to stroke my hair; it touched my lips in passing; I pressed it close, I paid it tribute. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When the Demarch ended, he raised his head with a bitter smile on his pallid face, and flung out his hand threateningly towards the speaker. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In the meantime he constructed a typewriter to print in raised letters, without ink. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The question of stacking ensilage is sometimes raised, being urged upon our people by the practice of our English friends, who are experimenting quite largely in this direction. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

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