Citations:administered

English citations of administered

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

  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.

  When he was come up to the gate, he looked up to the writing that was above, and then began to knock, supposing that entrance should have been quickly administered to him; but he was asked by the men that looked over the top of the gate, Whence came you, and what would you have?

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of "something" to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  "At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that he had a good mind to flog them all round — thought, upon the whole, he would do so — he ought to — justice demanded it; but for the present, considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with a reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.