Uttered Sentence Examples

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  • The blatant defiance was so sweetly uttered, he didn't know how to respond.

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  • What was he thinking when he uttered that word?

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  • It was the loudest word he'd uttered in two days.

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  • What a style! was uttered in approval both of reader and of author.

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  • Princess lifted her head and uttered a soft whinny to her baby.

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  • This seems to have been his last attempt; for, two years later, his Bibliography of Zoology shows little trace of his favourite theory, though nothing he had uttered in its support was retracted.

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  • Mr. Tim uttered a choked curse.

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  • He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan which aroused his own pity.

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  • In 1688 the German Friends of Germantown, Philadelphia, raised the first official protest uttered by any religious body against slavery.

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  • She was sure he would speak soft, tender words to her such as her father had uttered before his death, and that she would not be able to bear it and would burst into sobs in his presence.

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  • I shall never forget the surprise and delight I felt when I uttered my first connected sentence, "It is warm."

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  • He uttered no vain regrets, but the position was a trying one.

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  • And Princess Mary uttered aloud the caressing word he had said to her on the day of his death.

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  • Not once have you uttered those words.

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  • It is in the form of a prophecy uttered by Cassandra, and relates the later fortunes of Troy and of the Greek and Trojan heroes.

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  • Alexius may almost be compared to a magician, who has uttered a charm to summon a ministering spirit, and is surrounded on the instant by legions of demons.

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  • I... desire regeneration, Pierre uttered with difficulty.

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  • I don't know what, that... and having uttered this compliment, he again gazed at him in silence.

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  • Thousands of pickup lines have been uttered over the course of dating history, and many of the best, or at least the most entertaining, have been passed from person to person and collected on the Internet.

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  • Lana almost uttered a cry of surprise, astonished he'd survived the missiles.

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  • Mahratta elders hence uttered predictions of military disaster which were in the end more than fulfilled.

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  • But directly he was released from the rack he always withdrew the confessions uttered in the delirium of pain.

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  • The questions had to be given in writing, and the responses were uttered by the Pythian priestess, in early times a maiden, later a woman over fifty attired as a maiden.

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  • Only two women, Prisca and Maximilla, were moved by the Spirit; like Montanus, they uttered in a state of frenzy the commands of the Spirit, which urged men to a strict and holy life.

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  • He therefore inclines to the opinion that there is no inherent virtue in sacramentals, but that God is moved by the prayers uttered in their consecration to produce salutary effects in those who use them.

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  • Isnard's threat, uttered on the 25th of May, to march France upon Paris had been met by Paris marching upon the Convention.

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  • The voice of the god might be uttered in omens which the skilled could read, or conveyed in the inspired rhymes of soothsayers, but frequently it was sought in the oracle of the sanctuary, where the sacred lot was administered for a fee by the sadin.

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  • The extreme divergence in doctrinal position is fostered by the fact that the theology taught in the universities is in a great measure divorced from the practical religious life of the people, and the theological opinions uttered in the theological literature of the country cannot be held to express the thoughts of the members of the churches.

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  • The Christian governments either uttered useless and impotent complaints at Constantinople, or endeavoured to negotiate directly with Algiers, as in the case of the negotiations of Sanson Napollon during the ministry of Richelieu.

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  • The prophets not only consoled and exhorted by the recital of what God had done and by predictions of the future, but they uttered extempore thanksgivings in the congregational assemblies, and delivered special directions, which might extend to the most minute details, as, for example, the disposal of the church funds.

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  • By a mysterious sympathy the bread and wine over which the words, " This is my body which is for you," and " This cup is the new covenant in my blood," had been uttered, became Christ's body and blood; so that by partaking of these the faithful were united with each other and with Christ into one kinship. They became the body of Christ, and his blood or life was in them, and they were members of him.

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  • The idea, therefore, seems to be that as we must distinguish the holy food over which the words " This is my body " have been uttered from common food, so we must separate ourselves before eating it from all that is guilty and impure.

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  • The note of the pope to Rampolla of the 8th of October 1895, in consequence of the celebrations on the 10th of September, declared, in terms more decided than any that had until then been uttered, that the papacy required a territorial sovereignty in order to ensure its full independence, and that its interests were therefore incompatible with the existence of the kingdom of Italy as then constituted.

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  • The mediae have become aspirate tenues with a low intonation, which also marks the words having a simple initial consonant; while the former aspirates and the complex initials simplified in speech are uttered with a high tone, or, as the Tibetans say, " with a woman's voice," shrill and rapidly.

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  • The old fable of this bird inserting its beak into a reed or plunging it into the ground, and so causing the booming sound with which its name will be always associated, is also exploded, and nowadays indeed so few people in Britain have ever heard its loud and awful voice, which seems to be uttered only in the breeding-season, and is therefore unknown in a country where it no longer breeds, that incredulity as to its booming at all has in some quarters succeeded the old belief in this as in other reputed peculiarites of the species.

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  • Thus, we find Sumerian ab, " dwelling," " sea "; ab, " road," and -ab, a grammatical suffix, which words, with many others of a similar character, were perhaps originally uttered with different voice-tones.

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  • He received Johnson's homage with the most winning affability, and requited it with a few guineas, bestowed doubtless in a very graceful manner, but was by no means desirous to see all his carpets blackened with the London mud, and his soups and wines thrown to right and left over the gowns of fine ladies and the waistcoats of fine gentlemen, by an absent, awkward scholar, who gave strange starts and uttered strange growls, who dressed like a scarecrow and ate like a cormorant.

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  • He uttered his short, weighty, and pointed sentences with a power of voice, and a justness and energy of emphasis, of which the effect was rather increased than diminished by the rollings of his huge form, and by the asthmatic gaspings and puffings in which the peals of his eloquence generally ended.

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  • It is said that Mahomet occasionally uttered such a passage immediately after one of those epileptic fits which not only his followers, but (for a time at least) he himself also, regarded as tokens of intercourse with the higher powers.

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  • Revelations of the kind which Mahomet uttered, no unbeliever could more probably, among Christians, since Christianity is in a very peculiar sense the religion of salvation.

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  • Luther, though he had probably uttered in private certain expressions of dissatisfaction with Melanchthon, maintained unbroken friendship with him; but after Luther's death certain smaller men formed a party emphasizing the extremest points of his doctrine.'

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  • Protests were uttered in 1633, when Charles entered Edinburgh and held a parliament.

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  • And even then they are so difficult to understand, so much like puzzles, that they were probably accompanied from the first by a sort of comment in prose, stating when, and why, and by whom they were supposed to have been uttered.

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  • It is quite possible that the memory of the early disciples, highly trained as it was, enabled them to preserve a substantially true record of some of these speeches, and of the circumstances in which they were uttered.

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  • Another interesting collection is the Jataka book, a set of verses supposed to have been uttered by the Buddha in some of his previous births.

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  • He then turned from them to the multitude, and uttered a saying which in effect annulled the Jewish distinction between clean and unclean meats.

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  • Even Tinker had uttered a small cry of astonishment.

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  • She uttered a low moan, and opened her eyes.

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  • She smiled as she uttered his pet name, "Andrusha."

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  • One soldier, in his fear, uttered the senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic.

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  • Formerly in Anna Pavlovna's presence, Pierre had always felt that what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte's stupidest remarks came out clever and apt.

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  • When Rostov asked what was the matter, he only uttered some incoherent oaths and threats in a hoarse, feeble voice.

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  • In some places she raised her voice, in others she whispered, lifting her head triumphantly; sometimes she paused and uttered hoarse sounds, rolling her eyes.

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  • He knew that none of the words now uttered by Napoleon had any significance, and that Napoleon himself would be ashamed of them when he came to his senses.

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  • After those involuntary words--that if he were free he would have asked on his knees for her hand and her love--uttered at a moment when she was so strongly agitated, Pierre never spoke to Natasha of his feelings; and it seemed plain to her that those words, which had then so comforted her, were spoken as all sorts of meaningless words are spoken to comfort a crying child.

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  • But scarcely had Pierre uttered these words before he was attacked from three sides.

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  • Princess Mary could not quite make out what he had said, but from his look it was clear that he had uttered a tender caressing word such as he had never used to her before.

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  • In the stillness around him his slowly uttered words were distinctly heard.

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  • He did not miss a single word he uttered, and would afterwards, with Dessalles or by himself, recall and reconsider the meaning of everything Pierre had said.

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  • A shrill monotone scream, which is often uttered by tight flocks flying round buildings at roof-top height.

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  • Tip 's eyes were round and wondering, and the Saw-Horse uttered a sigh and turned away its head.

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  • Of course, few would believe that Jesus actually uttered the syllables " I am the Resurrection and the life ".

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  • The question was softly uttered; it 's menace lay in the steel gray of her unflinching eyes.

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  • Sri Krishna had indeed uttered falsehoods so many times, had broken his pledges, had wives and even ` married ' 16,000 ladies !

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  • Rebels from God, they uttered words against Him.

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  • But it was uttered in a tone of affection, which permitted me to feel that I had her attention.

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  • Could that be attributed to the fact that every time the Darkness are mentioned, G'n'R are uttered in the same breath?

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  • A table of tongue positions for British English vowels (as uttered by one speaker, at least) is available here.

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  • Whether you plan to say a traditional prayer that has been said at your school every year since the doors opened or you plan to offer up a prayer for a specific purpose, there are many different types of prayers that can be uttered.

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  • Guests should be advised not to say the words "wedding" or "bride." Every time these words are uttered, the person who spoke them has to take an item out of the bowl.

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  • Then he uttered the words no one in their right mind wants to hear, much less a bride less than five minutes before her wedding is to begin!

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  • The four-letter word about Paris was, however, uttered following a night out, with Lohan appearing to have had a drink (or two).

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  • A Concert for Hurricane Relief - Possibly the most infamous Kanye moment, in a speech given along with comedian Mike Myers, he uttered the phrase "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

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  • After seeing Vaughn in the hilariously funny role of Trent Walker, who uttered the famous words "You're so money and you don't even know it!

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  • The name brand "j.k. livin" stems from a similar one uttered by McConaughey's David Wooderson character in 1993's Dazed and Confused of "You just gotta keep livin man, L-I-V-I-N."

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  • For example, "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit" was uttered by Simpson's attorney Johnnie Cochran, referring to a glove the prosecution presented as evidence in the trial.

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  • With the exception of the United States and Canada, everywhere else in the world thinks of a soccer pitch when the word "football" is uttered.

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  • By using some of the unique lines uttered by the likes of Erica Kane, Tad Martin and JR Chandler, you are sure to get a reaction from friends, family members and strangers.

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  • Are you trying to remember that great line uttered by Nathan, Brooke or one of the other characters the other night when you were watching the show -- or from several seasons ago?

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  • How many times has that question been uttered as tired Americans pull into the drive-through to grab a quick dinner after a long day at work?

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  • This character affectingly known as Bones by Captain Kirk uttered this phrase often enough that it became a catch phrase in parodies and jokes making sport of the show.

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  • But He uttered a parable which more than answered them.

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  • One other cry He uttered, and the end came, and at that moment the veil of the Temple was rent from top to bottom - an omen of fearful import to those who had mocked Him, even on the cross, as the destroyer of the Temple, who in three days should build it anew.

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  • This reference to His own personal mission is strikingly expanded in words which He uttered on the return of the disciples.

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  • There is no sufficient ground for denying that these sayings were uttered by our Lord, but the fact that they were now first placed upon record harmonizes with what has been said already as to the more settled condition of the Christian society which this Gospel appears to reflect.

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  • That the idols of Bamian, about which so many conjectures have been uttered, were Buddhist figures, is ascertained from the narrative of the Chinese pilgrim, Hsiian-Tsang, who saw them in their splendour in A.D.

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  • His most original compositions in verse, however, are elegiac and hendecasyllabic pieces on personal topics - the De conjugali amore, Eridanus, Tumuli, Naeniae, Baiae, &c. - in which he uttered his vehemently passionate emotions with a warmth of southern colouring, an evident sincerity, and a truth of painting from reality which excuse their erotic freedom.

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  • But, as Tiele pointed out, the " individual " element cannot be eliminated from the " race-religion," where each myth has been first uttered, each rite_ first performed, by some single person.

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  • His pungent sarcasms were soon carried to the persons of whom they were uttered, and his pen was not less bitter than his tongue.

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  • He uttered no prayer, and he betrayed no apprehension.

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  • They are mostly told to show the occasion on which some memorable act of the Buddha took place, or some memorable saying was uttered, and are as exact as to place as they are indistinct as to time.

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  • If Lord Palm erston had been supported by his cabinet, or if he had been a younger man, he might possibly, in 1864, have made good the words which he had rashly uttered in 1863.

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  • But for some years before, as well as after, the outbreak of the World War, he uttered frequent warnings against the " German Menace."

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  • There are lapses and flaws, and Natty is made to say things which only Cooper, in his most verbosely didactic vein, could have uttered.

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  • He was strongly opposed to the prevailing French socialism of his time because of its utopianism and immorality; and, though he uttered all manner of wild paradox and vehement invective against the dominant ideas and institutions, he was remarkably free from feelings of personal hate.

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  • He tried to cry out and was shocked to feel his ears twitch as he uttered a ringing neigh.

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  • And then Newman uttered a quiet oath as he drew back from the binocular display of the stereo television camera.

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  • A thing once uttered by the tongue becomes polluted.

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  • In the feeble light repartee, which she uttered a cry.

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  • In its general congregations and sessions bitter reproaches were often uttered on the same themes.

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  • Phrases like " Get it in her " and " Shall we have a spit roast " were uttered by someone.

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  • Starting up on his knees, he uttered a wild shriek.

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  • Tip's eyes were round and wondering, and the Saw-Horse uttered a sigh and turned away its head.

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  • A reminder that our words, once uttered, have a life of their own.

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  • Those able to live righteous lives are righteous people, just as they were before Jesus ever uttered a world of teaching.

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  • Wishings, blessings, cursings, oaths, vows, exorcisms, and so on, are uttered aloud, doubtless partly that they may be heard by the human parties to the rite, but likewise in many cases that they may be heard, or at least overheard, by a consentient deity, perhaps represented visibly by an idol or other cult-object.

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  • But a formula that depends for its efficacy on being uttered rather than on being heard is virtually indistinguishable from the selfsufficient spell of the magician, though its origin is different.

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  • He took no heed of the warnings uttered by those sage counsellors, Cambaceres and Talleyrand, against an invasion of Russia, while "the Spanish ulcer" was sapping the strength of the empire at the other extremity.

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  • There are quatrains in the Rubdiyat of Omar Khayyam and pessimistic verses in Ecclesiastes which might have been uttered by Aristippus ("Then commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing than to eat and to drink and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life which God giveth him under the sun").

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  • But at the crowning moment of trial there are those who assert their belief that the woman who on her way to the field of Corrichie had uttered her wish to be a man, that she might know all the hardship and all the enjoyment of a soldier's life, riding forth "in jack and knapscull" - the woman who long afterwards was to hold her own for two days together without help of counsel against all the array of English law and English statesmanship, armed with irrefragable evidence and supported by the resentment of a nation - showed herself equally devoid of moral and of physical resolution; too senseless to realize the significance and too heartless to face the danger of a situation from which the simplest exercise of reason, principle or courage must have rescued the most unsuspicious and inexperienced of honest women who was not helplessly deficient in self-reliance and self-respect.

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  • The facts of Mary's lawless marriage with Bothwell, her capture at Carberry Hill, her confinement in Loch Leven Castle, her escape, her defeat at Langside, and her fatal flight to an English prison, with the proceedings of the English Commissions, which uttered no verdict, must be read in her biography (see Mary Stuart) .

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  • St Luke appears to have taken it over in sections for the most part without much modification; but in St Matthew's Gospel its incidents seldom find an independent place; the sayings to which they gave rise are often detached from their context and grouped with sayings of a similar character so as to form considerable discourses, or else they are linked n to sayings which were uttered on other occasions recorded y St Mark.

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  • The sayings attributed to Rabelais which colour the idea (such as the famous "Je vais chercher un grand peut-titre," said to have been uttered on his death-bed) are, as has been said, purely apocryphal.

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  • The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

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  • She could not understand them, but tried to guess what he was saying and inquiringly repeated the words he uttered.

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  • But I understand that you value what opens up a fresh line, said she, repeating words Pierre had once uttered.

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  • Sound carries easily on the still moorland air which is why the little folk heard every scornful word that Mabel had just uttered.

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  • Although she had said the words "I love you," several times, he had not uttered them.

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  • Quarrelling with the Venetians In 1508, he combined the forces of all Europe by the league of Cambray against them; and, when he had succeeded in his first purpose of humbling them even to the dust, he turned round in 1510, uttered his famous resolve to expel the barbarians from Italy, and pitted the Spaniards against the French.

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  • Being intended for the Hotri's use, both these works treat exclusively of the hymns and verses recited by that priest and his assistants, either in the form of connected litanies or in detached verses invoking the deities to whom oblations are made, or uttered in response to the.

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  • Thus the prayers of the Todas already alluded to are in all cases uttered "in the throat," although these are public prayers, each village having a form of its own.

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  • Allied with this more empiricist stand-point is the assertion that Greek philosophy borrowed from Moses; but in studying the Fathers we constantly find that groundless assertion uttered in the same breath with the dominant Idealist view, according to which Greek philosophy was due to incomplete revelation from the divine Logos.

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  • In such an atmosphere, deism readily uttered its protest against mysterious revelation.

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  • To constitute the offence, the blasphemy must be uttered in public, be offensive in character, and have wounded the religious susceptibilities of some other person.

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  • From the sequel it appears that the prophecy was uttered by one Pharisee only, and that it was in no way endorsed by the party.

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  • He refused to put the vote of outlawry, uttered a few passionate words, cast off his official robes, declared the session at an end, and made his way out under protection of a squad of grenadiers.

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  • Imprecations uttered by Lucien against the brigands and traitors in the pay of England decided the grenadiers of the Council to march against the deputies whom it was their special duty to protect.

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  • Such were his words uttered shortly before his departure from Paris (15th of April).

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  • The ass was a hollow wooden effigy, within which a priest capered and uttered prophecies.

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  • There is something very characteristic in the exclamation he is said to have uttered in his last illness, "An emperor ought to die standing."

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  • But the opposition, while unable to deny the recuperation of Hungary, shut their eyes to everything but Tisza's " tyranny, " and their attacks were never so savage and unscrupulous as during the session of 1889, when threats of a revolution were uttered by the opposition leaders and the premier could only enter or leave the House under police protection.

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  • In 830-850, Paschasius Radbert taught that after the priest has uttered the words of institution, nothing remains save the body and blood under the outward form of bread and wine; the substance is changed and the accidents alone remain.

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  • Though it soon appeared that the imputation was false, Khalid, on his return, was furious, and uttered very offensive words against the caliph.

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  • In 1795 he fought a duel with Colonel Waitstill Avery (1745-1821), an opposing counsel, over some angry words uttered in a court room; but both, it appears, intentionally fired wild.

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  • In the forcing atmosphere, however, of that age of controversy, seed such as that sown in the master's treatment of the uttered X6yos 4 quickly germinated.

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  • Even the prophets had spoken in the name of God; they accepted neither book nor priesthood as authoritative, but uttered their truth as they were inspired to speak, and commanded men to listen and obey.

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  • Besides this, some did not hesitate to give to the characters of their history speeches which were never uttered.

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  • The story goes that, having been deeply impressed by Ramananda's teaching, he sought to attach himself to him; and, one day at Benares, in stepping down the ghat at daybreak to bathe in the Ganges, and putting himself in the way of the teacher, the latter, having inadvertently struck him with his foot, uttered his customary exclamation" Ram Ram,"which, being also the initiatory formula of the sect, was claimed by Kabir as such, making him Ramananda's disciple.

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  • But the greatest name of the epoch, the name which is synonymous with the Renaissance in France, has yet to be uttered.

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  • It was a French king who, when the nation had been reduced to order, uttered the famous word of absolutism, "L'Etat, c'est moi."

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  • When called upon to declare, he uttered the exclamation, which the event justified, " Eclipse first, and the rest nowhere."

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  • At first he lay awake, conscious of every sound the motel uttered, fearful that Cynthia Byrne might waken to God knows what thoughts and fears.

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  • Just before her death she uttered a curse against the people of Conway, and said they would always be poor.

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  • My brother's wife uttered an exclamation of impatience.

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  • But his smile melted into a deep frown as he uttered the next few words wistfully.

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  • A vast amount of stuffy and sentimental humbug has been uttered in favor of the Gospel of Work.

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  • Of course, few would believe that Jesus actually uttered the syllables " I am the Resurrection and the life " .

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  • We sat on a stile, both of us plunged in meditation, and then he suddenly uttered an exclamation.

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  • During his diplomatic career he had more than once noticed that such utterances were received as very witty, and at every opportunity he uttered in that way the first words that entered his head.

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  • Uttered formulas abound; yet they are not forms of address, but rather the self-sufficient pronouncements of the magician's fiat.

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  • He hadn't uttered anything so stupid in a long time, after she yelled at him for talking like that.

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