Citations:examine


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But they that were appointed to examine them did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad, or else such as came to put all things into a confusion in the fair.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.
 * During this interval, one of the servants, happening to examine the apparel she had worn on the night of the murder, had discovered in her pocket the picture of my mother, which had been judged to be the temptation of the murderer.