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Usage examples of actuated.

I were to give you anything it would be thought that I was actuated by the hope of favours to come, and I should be laughed at, and deservedly, as a dupe.

At Paris men are actuated by the same views, and most marriages are matters of convenience.

It is very certain that if I had not been actuated by curiosity I should not have gone one step further, but I wanted to see the countenance of a nun who had offered to come to Venice to sup with me.

I thought, too, that the banker might have his doubts after the two heavy losses I had sustained, and I confess that I was also actuated by the gambler's superstition that by making a change of any kind one changes the luck.

I suspect they were actuated by pride rather than shame, as they might possibly have employed it without success.

I felt curious to hear his adventures, and I was also actuated by that feeling of kindliness which draws one towards the companions of one's youthful and especially one's school days, so I went to the back as soon as the curtain fell.

But how shall I convince you that I am actuated by love and not by complaisance?

I don't want your daughter to pay for herself, and to prove that I am not actuated by feelings of economy, you shall dine with me too.

But I should have been so through ignorance and prejudice, and actuated by that love of existing rights and wrongs which men call loyalty.

But I do say that the Canadian towns will have no equal chance till they are actuated by that feeling of political independence which has created the growth of the towns in the United States.

There can be no doubt that a genuine feeling of patriotism was aroused throughout the North and West, and that men rushed into the ranks actuated by that feeling, men for whom war and army life, a camp and fifteen dollars a month.

In coming to her determination, and making her avowal, she had been actuated by the knowledge that Lady Lufton would regard such a marriage with abhorrence.

House could be actuated in his vote by any hopes or fears with reference to his seat.

Sowerby,' said Robarts hardly actuated at the moment by any strong feeling of Christian forgiveness.

Transportation is effected by means of flying ships actuated by the control of gravitational attraction.