"It was in the capacity of a Minister to Justice, that the pure spirit, whom it is my glory to praise, first conceived the idea of those unrivaled labours that have rendered his memory a treasure to mankind.

The butler conceived the plan of getting Birchill to break into the house.

He judged that it could not be taken by assault (neque ab oppugnatione recedi vidaret ulla conditione posse), and, as it was abundantly provided with provisions, conceived the project of depriving the inhabitants of water.

The Athenians conceived great hopes, and the enemy no less terror from so large an armament.

With this bold request Olivia was not averse to comply; for this haughty beauty, whom the Duke Orsino had loved so long in vain, at first sight conceived a passion for the supposed page, the humble Cesario.

In the noble emotions of pity for the oppressed, and of zeal for the honour and interest of civilized society, he conceived perhaps the sublimest design that ever occupied and exalted the mind of man, the design to search and to purify the polluted stream of Penal Justice, not only throughout his own country, but through the various nations of the world.

"Already the Liberals had conceived boundless desires, and the Retrogradists were haunted with unreasonable fears.

About this time old Osborne conceived much admiration for Major Dobbin, which he had acquired from the world's opinion of that gentleman.

"Just before you came, I had conceived a most exalted opinion of my own abilities.

Oh, well is it their mothers, their sisters cannot see themcannot conceive and never conceived these things.

Columbus was not the first to conceive the possibility of reaching the East by sailing west.

She was annoyed to think how completely she had surrendered to the will of Miss Von Taer, for whom she had conceived the same aversion she had for a snake.

Prestwich's two objections are (1) the data of astronomy, and (2) "the difficulty of conceiving that man could have existed for 80,000 or 100,000 years without change and without progress."

My uncle offered to take me in his arms, but I turned sullenly from him, and clung closer to my father, having conceived a dislike to my uncle because he had made my father cry.

Episthenes conceived an affection for the youth, and, taking him home, found him extremely attached to him.

It is a singular thing that many men incapable of a lifelong love, can conceive a lifelong hatred based on that love.

It was, at least, equally fortunate that the king also conceived a great liking for his brother-in-law at first sight.

Who can conceive his feelings as hour dragged after hour, while he walked to and fro, watching the blaze of the fire in the tower, as it brightened and sunk againnow pacing the court with hasty steps, and now praying fervently for the preservation of his son?

But there was the devil of having a mind like Duchemin's: once it conceived a notion like that, it was all but impossible for him to dislodge it unless or until something happened to persuade him of his stupidity.

His was not the sort of mind to conceive any thought that required whispering.

No human device has ever prevailed against it, no array of majorities or respectabilities; but neither Caesar nor Flamen ever conceived a scheme so cunningly adapted to neutralize its power as that graceful compromise which accepts it with the lip and denies it in the life, which marries it at the altar and divorces it at the church-door.

This big fellow had lately left college, and although he had only completed his nineteenth year, he was on the point of marrying a portionless young girl, Charlotte Desvignes, for whom he had conceived a romantic attachment ever since childhood.

It is hardly possible to conceive the effect of this terrible rumour.

" "Each man," returned the Prince, but partially conceiving my meaning, "is master at home.

In his dispositions he is represented to have been ever calm and amiable; and but for his metaphysical errors and reveries, and a singular incapability of conceiving the existing state of things as it practically affects the nature and condition of man, to have possessed many of the gentlest qualities of humanity.