existed

Sir, it is not; it has existed for the last seven or eight years.

It existed but in two, and in one of these there was a plural executive.

I have existed in a magic Bohemia, largely of my own making.

All others, so far as she was concerned, existed only on the sufferance of remoteness.

In 1642 Queen Henrietta Maria landed on whatever quay then existed.

Could one find a sharper contrast than existed between these two?

For now the few classic books they owned, so cold and dry, existed no longer.

She existed only in the hope of that desired moment; its joy filled her life.

To me, the only thing that existed in life, in the future, was you.

The thousand or so human beings who crowded the clearing might not have existed.