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The word "charged" serves a multifaceted role in literature, its meaning shifting with context to evoke authority, action, or even symbolism. In some texts, it functions as a directive, as when a character is entrusted with a specific duty or responsibility (e.g., [1], [2], [3]), while in legal and accusatory narratives it marks the imposition of blame or criminal allegation (see [4], [5], [6]). In battle or movement scenes, it depicts a forceful advance or attack, intensifying the sense of urgency and valor (as in [7], [8], [9], [10]). The term also appears in heraldic language to describe designs on a shield (notably [11], [12], [13]), and at times, it is used in a scientific sense to denote being energized or electrically loaded ([14], [15]). Thus, across genres and periods, "charged" operates as a dynamic and context-dependent device contributing layers of meaning to the narrative.
  1. and when she came in she charged me to give them as much corn as ever they would eat.”
    — from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
  2. She said I was; and then she told me a secret, which she strictly charged me to tell no person.’
    — from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
  3. When you see Nadernannerl, tell her I spoke to Herr Brindl (her lover), and he charged me to give her his regards.
    — from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  4. In Bowling Green, Virginia, Moses Christopher, a colored lad, was charged with assault, September 10.
    — from The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  5. As he was charged with uttering forged notes he had been taken to Newgate, and was in danger of being hanged.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  6. John Cavendish appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey, charged with “The Wilful Murder of Emily Agnes Inglethorp,” and pleaded “Not Guilty.”
    — from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
  7. Still Rávaṇ for the battle burned: At Lakshmaṇ next his car he turned, And charged amain with furious show, Straining in mighty hands his bow.
    — from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
  8. Then as some monster of the sea Cleaves swift-advancing billows, he Charged with impetuous onset through The foe, and cleft the host in two.
    — from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
  9. The trumpets sounded, and the knights charged each other in full career.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  10. They turned when they arrived at their old position to regard the ground over which they had charged.
    — from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane
  11. —A label of five points argent, charged with three roses and two crosses gules.
    — from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
  12. The well-known augmentation of the Medicis family, viz.: "A roundle azure, charged with three fleurs-de-lis or," was granted by Louis XII.
    — from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
  13. —A label of three points, the centre point charged with St. George's cross, and each of the other points with a rose gules.
    — from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
  14. The whole air here tonight has been charged with electricity.
    — from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
  15. It was no rail; but a metallic cable charged with electricity from the deck communicating with the platform.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

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