Citations:accounted

English citations of accounted

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  Therefore, said I, I had rather go through this valley to the honour that was so accounted by the wisest, than choose that which he esteemed most worthy our affections.

  In all that country where he was robbed, his jewels were not accounted of; nor did he want that relief which could from thence be administered to him.

• 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

  Her impatience for this second letter was as well rewarded as impatience generally is. Jane had been a week in town without either seeing or hearing from Caroline. She accounted for it, however, by supposing that her last letter to her friend from Longbourn had by some accident been lost.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  In the first place, it may be deemed almost superfluous to establish the fact, that among people at large, the business of whaling is not accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions.

  Often, adventures which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted unworthy of being set down in the ship's common log.

  Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequately accounted for it.