Suggested

Examples

• It ended in my moving into the house next Lady-day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The manifest advantage of an even track for the wheels long ago suggested the idea of laying down wood and other hard, smooth surfaces for carriages to run upon. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I felt I might, without indelicacy, because the evening she dined with us she rather suggested . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To anybody acquainted with the inhabitants of Egdon Heath the image would have suggested Eustacia Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Your knowledge of the world, dear aunt, is superior to mine, I suggested diffidently. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Gale suggested that his simple electro-magnet, with its few turns of thick wire, should be replaced by one with a coil of long thin wire. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week, suggested Mose. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She was not the better pleased with his gallantry from the idea it suggested of something more. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• With this idea suggested, one might suppose that it would be a simple matter to make molds and pour in a concrete mixture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With the questions of reorganization thus suggested, we shall be concerned in the concluding chapters. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Or he keeps us, suggested Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The church-bells were going for a week-day service; they suggested a word of affectionate remonstrance on my part. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It suggested that at the time of the firing, the window as well as the door of the room had been open. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Better pick up Mr. Melas on our way, I suggested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• No motive was suggested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Amy will be in presently, and she will run down for us, suggested Meg. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Put 'em under the pump,' suggested a hot-pieman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The cap suggested the necessity and invention of machines for making them quickly and in great quantities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But, so it has been suggested, there was one man who stopped short when he lost his spindle, for a red-hot idea shot suddenly through his brain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I cannot say with truth that the terrible inference which those words suggested flashed upon me like a new revelation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And the figure to which it belongs--' Is yours,' suggested Bella. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After all, he is the one who suggested coming out just now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The circumstance on which my story rests was suggested in casual conversation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I believe it is suggested; but she denies it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Human nature suggested revenge. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Ada suggested that it was comfortable to know that Mr. Jellyby did not mean these destructive sentiments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Rokesmith suggested measles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The subjective relation between them further suggested an objective one; although the passage from one to the other is really imaginary (Metaph. Plato. The Republic.

Editor: Rosalie