37164 examples of acted in sentences

Before going to Queensland he had acted for some time as Surveyor-General of Western Australia.

The Representation was immediately acted on, for in the Records Office is a hurried note from Graves to Mr. Stephens, Secretary to the Admiralty, probably written on the 5th April, in which he asks: "what final answer he shall give to Mr. Cook, late Master of the Northumberland, who is very willing to go out to survey the Harbours and Coasts of Labradore.

A sort of farce was also acted, but they could make nothing of it, except that it "showed that these people have a notion of Dramatic Performances."

I have to request that these documents, which are original, may be returned when the Senate shall have acted on the convention.

In February, 1805, it was again presented by a message from the President to the consideration of Congress, but has not since been definitively acted upon.

In making this proposal it is perceived that His Catholic Majesty has entirely misconceived the principles on which this Government has acted in being a party to a negotiation so long protracted for claims so well founded and reasonable, as he likewise has the sacrifices which the United States have made, comparatively, with Spain in the treaty to which it is proposed to annex so extraordinary and improper a condition.

Congress has invariably acted on this principle, having made no change in our relations with either party.

I have acted on this principle, pardoning those who appear to have been led astray by ignorance of the criminality of the acts they had committed, and suffering the law to take effect on those only in whose favor no extenuating circumstances could be urged.

Much allowance is due to officers employed in each branch of this system, and the more so as there is good cause to believe that each acted under the conviction that he possessed the power which he undertook to exercise.

It acted sluggishly.

he exclaimed with well-acted heat; "are the Leman winds liveried lackeys, to come and go as may suit your fancies; now to blow west, and now east, as shall be most wanted, to help you on your journeys?

He acted wisely.

He was an ardent supporter of a marriage between his niece and Junius Keswick; and when the engagement had been broken off he had considered that both these young people had acted in a manner very foolish and contrary to their best interests.

Can't you guess how they treat me from the way they've acted to you and mother?" He met this with a puzzled stare.

"The way they've acted to me and mother?

He may be regarded roughly as the royal poultice who brought matters to a head in England, and who, by means of his treachery, cowardice, and phenomenal villany, acted as a counter-irritant upon the malarial surface of the body politic.

Thomas Betterton, born probably in 1635, acted for the last time in 1710, the year in which he died.

This piece was never acted in London, and may very probably be damned HERE.)

This little play was never acted.

Our business, however, is with his English adventures, which must, I think, have astonished him as much as anything that he met with in Arabia, even if he acted all the Thousand and One Nights on the spot.

Speaking of a person who acted as their guide, he says:"Des folgenden

"Sir Thomas Miller possesses the original Minutes of this Assembly of the Peers in the handwriting of a Mr. Glyn, who acted as secretary.

M. Oettinger appears to have acted on this principle, and has been happy in the choice of his subject "The proper study of mankind is man.

For Vettius, being informed against and arrested before he had acted, denounced them; and had he not charged Bibulus also with being in the plot against the two, they would have certainly met some evil fate.

Really, I should never have expected that you, who have partaken of much education of every kind, who have acted as advocate to many, would grow so faint-hearted.

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