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Sentences ending with ability

When you come, you shall ask what questions you like on that point, and I will answer to the best of my stammering ability. [14]
He had sometimes wondered why Ditmar had promoted her, though acknowledging her ability. [9]
What we give we lend to the Lord, and he taxes no man above his ability. [10]
He possessed virility, vitality in a remarkable degree, yet some elusive quality that was neither tact nor delicacy--though related to these differentiated him from the commonplace, self-made man of ability. [9]
When we determined upon this competition each knew the other's ability. [10]
Consequently he had to be a man of intelligence, decision and considerable executive ability. [5]
And to effect this mere holding on, with the vagabond crew that composed most of the colony, and with the extravagant and unintelligent expectations of the London Company, was a feat showing decided ability. [4]
She thought of the story he had told her, how by self-assertion and persistence he had become agent of the Chippering Mill, how he had convinced Mr. Stephen Chippering of his ability. [9]
At any rate, the Netherlander whom the Council brought here three years ago--so connoisseurs say--scarcely has his equal anywhere in knowledge and ability. [10]
As I understand the matter, it is the custom of your railroad to send these passes to the young lawyers of the State the moment they begin to give signs of ability. [9]

Sentences containing ability two or more times

Of his ability there never had been a moment's doubt, but it had ever been an uncomfortable ability, it had tortured foes and made friends anxious. [11]
The wonder is that a new book does not sell more largely, or it would be a wonder if the ability to buy kept pace with the ability to read, and if discrimination had accompanied the appetite for reading. [4]
The faculty of telling a story is a much rarer gift than the ability to analyze character and even than the ability truly to draw character. [4]
There are twelve miles of this road which no man without good executive ability can ever hope--tell me, have you good executive ability? [5]
I guess he's come to despise a great many things that he once respected, and that intellectual ability is among them--what we call intellectual ability. [8]

More example sentences with the word ability in them

Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
He perceived that you were a man of ability, sir--" "And that was just the reason," said the Honourable Brush, "that he couldn't make you more useful just now. [9]
If I tell you that I have a great respect for your astuteness and ability, do not put it down to flattery. [9]
In that ability you know I once prided myself as the only or chief gem of my character; that gem I lost--how and where you know too well. [7]
They say that you have ability, that you have acquired a practice and a position which at your age give the highest promise for the future. [9]
But the world would be greatly transformed and much more easy to live in if everybody limited his acquisitions to his ability to assimilate them to his life. [4]
We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. [5]
He could deal with those millions virtuously, and withal with ability, too--but of course you would rather he had a salaried position? [5]
It is different with the reputation of an equally great financier who has used his ability for the service of his country. [4]
Of what avail were all his ability and the most honest good-will if no opportunity offered for his executing his work in noble materials? [10]
Hawley, who was well aware of Warner's peculiar ability, was anxious to secure his co-operation and assistance. [4]
Even then it was not love I felt but an unnamed sentiment for one whom I clothed with gifts and attributes I admired: constancy, an ability to suffer and to hide, decision, wit, refuge for the weak, scorn for the false. [9]
The lower river was about bank-full, and if anybody had questioned my ability to run any crossing between Cairo and New Orleans without help or instruction, I should have felt irreparably hurt. [5]
A man of very moderate ability may be a good physician, if he devotes himself faithfully to the work. [3]
These, and Colonel Varney, had seen to it that men who had any parliamentary ability had been attended to; all save Krebs, who had proved a surprise. [9]
For consider the varied ability that the grocery requires-the foresight about the markets, to take advantage of an eighth per cent. [4]
The Daily Hurrah urges the measure with ability, and seems confident of ultimate success. [5]
His position was undisputed, for the Street believed with the world in the magnitude of that fortune, though there were shrewd operators who said that Mavick had more chicane but not a tenth part of the ability of Rodney Henderson. [4]
Is it not true that the young man of average ability will find it as much as he can do to fit himself for these simple duties? [3]
And I am told it was conceived by a lawyer who claims to be a respectable member of his profession, and who has extraordinary ability, Theodore Watling. [9]
He need fear to undertake none, if only it was worthy of representation; for he was sure of his ability, and difficulty did not alarm him, but promised to lend creating for the first time its true charm. [10]
Him I consoled to the best of my ability, and afterwards, in some slight measure, supplied his wants. [6]
Whatever suspicion attaches to Smith's relation of his own exploits, it must never be forgotten that he was a man of extraordinary executive ability, and had many good qualities to offset his vanity and impatience of restraint. [4]
He had appealed to Sheila more by ability than by aught else. [11]
Will the ability to read Chaucer assist a shop-keeper? [4]
Claude Ditmar's ability to put it through was unquestioned; one had only to look at him,--tenacity, forcefulness, executiveness were written all over him.... [9]
For the ability to perform it, I must trust in that Supreme Being who has never forsaken this favored land, through the instrumentality of this great and intelligent people. [7]
Of the ability to feel she was utterly bereft. [9]
For the first time in a collective experience the men gathered there were confronted with a situation which they doubted their ability to control, a situation for which there was no precedent. [9]
Our city was throwing off its social conservatism; wealth (which implied ability and superiority) was playing a greater part, entertainments were more luxurious, lines more strictly drawn. [9]
That he went through was evidence not only of his adroitness and ability, but it was proof also that he was a good fellow. [4]
I wondered whether this were birth, or training, or both, or a natural ability to cope with affairs. [9]
But in taking this step the Government does not in the least reflect upon your efficiency or patriotism; on the contrary, have the fullest confidence in your ability to perform any duty required of you. [7]
I do not think I am betraying his confidence when I say that he is impressed with your ability, and that he liked your manner the only time he ever talked to you. [9]
Their ability saves them from being demagogues. [9]
Of his ability the world speaks variably: he is an artist. [11]
He believed in the powers exerted by that remarkable man over spirits, and his ability to work miracles, for he had proved in the most startling manner that he had perfect control even over such a determined mind as that of the prefect. [10]
I studied all the points with great anxiety, and presented them with whatever of ability and sense of justice I could bring to bear. [7]
It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. [7]
It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. [7]
Farrar put into the little cove, where we dropped anchor, and soon had the chief sufferers ashore; and a delicate supper, in the preparation of which Miss Thorn showed her ability as a cook, soon restored them. [9]
The subject of the letter, as indicated above, is one of great magnitude and importance, and one which these gentlemen, of known ability and high character, seem to have considered with great attention and care. [7]
Our eminent classmate, the late Professor Benjamin Peirce, showed by numerical comparison that the men of superior ability outlasted the average of their fellow-graduates. [6]
It had been the keen eye of Mr. Stephen Chippering that first had marked him, questioned him, recognized his ability, and from the moment of that encounter his advance had been rapid. [9]
The chief of the House of Seti is a man of great ability, and at least half of the priesthood are his adherents. [10]
He falls into the error that the ability to demonstrate the medulla oblongata should likewise suffice to convince the heart of a maid. [11]
Their control of the country rested upon force; the stability of the Diaz rule, for instance, depended upon the "President's" ability to maintain his dictatorship--a precarious guarantee to the titles he had given. [9]
In my opinion the country now needs no specific thing so much as some man of your ability and position to go to this work. [7]
And finally, when the ability to reproduce prongs is lost through age, that poor old star-fish can't get around any more, and so it dies of starvation. [5]
If thrift and the ability to gain wealth be qualities for a hero, Jethro had them--in those days. [9]
Strikes directly at the ability of the railways to develop the country. [4]
In a country that's just boiling over with literary and artistic ability of every kind the new fellows have no chance. [8]
So it appears that, in the opinion of this critical class, the author of the 'Woodnotes' and the 'Humble Bee' ranked about eighth in poetical ability. [6]
Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. [4]
I wondered greatly that such a foible should crop out in a man of otherwise sound sense and plain ability. [9]
Gruner showed him that others were already devoting their best powers to solve it, and offered him an opportunity to try his ability in his model school. [10]
Watling's no worse than the others, I suppose,--only he's got more ability. [9]
I have been surprised at the literary ability engaged by the great corporations. [4]
I do not suppose that any other statesman ever had such a colossal sense of humor, combined with the ability to totally conceal it. [5]
The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. [7]
The boulevard was strong, and Dunois doubted our ability to take it, but Joan had no such doubt. [5]
They do not stand for ability, for public service, for social importance, for large possessions; but, on the contrary, are oftenest found in connection with personalities to which they are supremely inapplicable. [6]
With all her splendid common sense and practical everyday ability, Roxy was a doting fool of a mother. [5]
This ability to speak English--his own English--was the pride of Jean's life. [11]
She herself was sometimes surprised by her ability to remain outwardly calm. [9]
Get hold of some man in the North whose position and ability is such that he can make the support of your measure, whatever it may be, a Democratic party necessity, and the thing is done. [7]
With his great shrewdness and business ability, why did he not take advantage of the many opportunities the war gave to make a fortune? [9]
Beneath all his shrewdness and ability he was at heart a dreamer, a romancist to whom life was an adventure in a half-real world. [11]
The simple truth seems to be that his arrogance and conceit and importunity made him unpopular, and that his proverbial ill luck was set off against his ability. [4]
And you will see, in my table in the library, that I have left my property in your hands, with every confidence in your integrity, and ability to care for my family, even as I should have done. [9]
One of the secrets of Mr. Tiernan's very human success was due to his ability to estimate his fellow creatures. [9]
Every man can rise if he has the ability. [9]
Her eyes still rested on his face, questioningly, appraisingly, as though she were seeking to estimate his preparedness for the ordeal before him, his ability to go through with it successfully, triumphantly. [9]
He had the reputation, which he deserved, for great ability and integrity. [4]
As though to refute this doubt of her ability to carry out an act determined upon, she broke the weapon once more, loaded and closed it, and thrust it in the pocket of her coat. [9]
The Colonel would rather have denounced the Dred Scott decision than admit to Judge Whipple that one of the greatest weaknesses of the South lay in her lack of mechanical and manufacturing ability. [9]
He did so quietly, picking out main incidents, and setting them forth, as he had the ability, with quiet dramatic strength. [11]
The ability to put a matter thus humorously was a part of Nelson Langmaid's power with men and juries. [9]
John was very proud of his office, and of his ability to keep the rear ranks closed up and ready to execute any maneuver when the captain "hollered," which he did continually. [4]
Dicky had a poor opinion of Sowerby's sense or ability, and yet he knew that if he were in Sowerby's present situation--living or dead-- Sowerby would spill his blood a hundred useless times, if need be, to save him. [11]
What made a person desired in any company was the talent of being agreeable, talent of some sort, not the ability to give a costly dinner or a big ball. [4]
His was the only effort in the nature of a public lecture that we heard in the Provinces, and we could not judge of his ability without hearing a "course. [4]
It is the one great reason why so very few of the countless number of such works, written, and sometimes written by men of highest ability, are hardly heard of a few years after publication. [4]
Major Lackland had once been a man of note in the State--a man of extraordinary natural ability and as extraordinary learning. [5]
As he goes on in life, he begins to doubt his ability to destroy all evil and to reform all abuses, and to suspect that there will be much left to do after he has done. [4]
It's not only on account of the homesickness--I am, thinking rather of your position at court--and, let me speak candidly, it is unworthy of a nobleman and a musician of such ability. [10]
There is an old story that Matthews, the actor, was once lauding the ability of the human face to express the passions and emotions hidden in the breast. [5]
A candidate for office must have marked ability, education, and high character, or he stood no sort of chance of election. [5]
With my appreciation of your ability and correct principle, of course I would be very glad to have your service for the country in the approaching political canvass; but I fear we cannot properly have it without separating you from the military. [7]
He assured her of this; and Helena, who had heard him mentioned as a man of ability, saw in him a helper in need, and begged him, with touching fervour, to show her grandfather, when he came before the officers, that all was not lost. [10]
There's a man of remarkable ability, too. [9]
A certain amount of natural ability is requisite to make you a good physician, but by no means that disproportionate development of some special faculty which goes by the name of genius. [3]
How many authors of fair ability to interest the world have we known in our own day who have been thus sky-rocketed into notoriety by the lazy indiscrimination of the critic-by-comparison, and then have sunk into a popular contempt as undeserved! [4]
A certain gravity of demeanour had early taken possession of him, and while his close-shut lips showed his ability to cling tenaciously to a resolution, his bright eyes sparkled with the glow of enthusiasm. [10]
With lively sensations of curiosity and excitement, tempered by a certain anxiety as to my ability to match wits with the Spider, I made my way to his "lair" over Monahan's saloon, situated in a district that was anything but respectable. [9]
The details must, of course, be left to General Rosecrans, while we must furnish him the means to the utmost of our ability. [7]
A Cambridge graduate of ambition and ability found an opening far from undesirable in a worldly point of view, in a profession which he was led to choose by higher motives. [6]
There is a notion that the art of conversation, the ability to talk well, has gone out. [4]
But I do not wish to assert that this tendency may not be more than counterbalanced in other ways, as by the multiplication of the reckless and improvident; but even to such as these, ability must be some advantage. [1]
But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it; and I have given the evidence to the best of my ability. [1]

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