Citations:conceive


 * 1606 — Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare, II-4
 * We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.


 * She hath also conceived a son in her old age.
 * She hath also conceived a son in her old age.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * It is not easy for any one who has not been in the like condition to describe or conceive the consternation of men in such circumstances.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * "I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself. The recollection of what I then said, of my conduct, my manners, my expressions during the whole of it, is now, and has been many months, inexpressibly painful to me. Your reproof, so well applied, I shall never forget: 'had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.' Those were your words. You know not, you can scarcely conceive, how they have tortured me; — though it was some time, I confess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice."