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Sentences ending with activity

To him life was less a problem than an experiment, and this last act, this nameless repudiation of the laws of family life, was like the sign of a chemist's activity. [11]
Here every one was astir and in brisk activity. [10]
She was glad to find escape from them in practical activity. [2]
Whatever he tried to be, whatever he engaged in, the evil and falsehood of it repulsed him and blocked every path of activity. [2]
But succeeding the thrill of delight I had at thought of seeing the open world again there came a feeling of lassitude, of indifference; I shrank from the jar of activity. [11]
Now what does this fellow do but go off and get drunk and then proceed to his quarters and set to work with his imagination in a state of chaos, and that chaos in a condition of extravagant activity. [5]
And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity. [2]
Memphis had never seen such activity. [9]
Mrs. Cortlandt was quite in her element here as director-general of expeditions and promoter of social activity. [4]
He can repose only in the midst of intense activity. [4]

Short sentences using activity

Philanthropy, activity in 1820, 147. [6]

Sentences containing activity two or more times

When a man works alone he always has a certain set of reflections which as it seems to him directed his past activity, justify his present activity, and guide him in planning his future actions. [2]
Just the same is done by a concourse of people, allowing those who do not take a direct part in the activity to devise considerations, justifications, and surmises concerning their collective activity. [2]
The leaders, these historians tell us, express the will of the people: the activity of the leaders represents the activity of the people. [2]
In both cases his personal activity, having no more force than the personal activity of any soldier, merely coincided with the laws that guided the event. [2]
What would then have become of the activity of all those who opposed the tendency that then prevailed in the government--an activity that in the opinion of the historians was good and beneficent? [2]
When some larger concourse of men direct their activity to a common aim there is a yet sharper division of those who, because their activity is given to directing and commanding, take less part in the direct work. [2]
They described the activity of individuals who ruled the people, and regarded the activity of those men as representing the activity of the whole nation. [2]

More example sentences with the word activity in them

If there are, you might speak of the renewed activity and all that sort of thing, in the hay business, you know. [5]
Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
Then, bustling about with feverish activity, and constantly saying, "Welcome, welcome," he arranged his bench, seated the King on it, by the hearth, threw some faggots on the fire, and finally fell to pacing the floor with a nervous stride. [5]
The stir for wider freedom in religion and government increased with the activity of exploration and colonization, and one reason why James finally annulled the Virginia, charter was because he regarded the meetings of the London Company as opportunities of sedition. [4]
Meantime, Sally Sellers, who was as practical and democratic as the Lady Gwendolen Sellers was romantic and aristocratic, was leading a life of intense interest and activity and getting the most she could out of her double personality. [5]
But the opening which now presented itself introduced him to a field of activity much more suited to his talents and his tastes. [4]
The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock. [2]
All of them were in a state of incessant activity, as if perpetually seeking something and never finding it. [6]
His best days were done, the spring of his life was gone, and the step was that of a man who had little more of activity and force with which to turn the halting wheels of life. [11]
His intellectual activity was unremitting, he had no lack of friends, there was only now and then a discordant note in the general estimation of his literary work, and he was the object of the most tender care from his nieces. [4]
The old general was better pleased, however, at this display of activity and excitement than at yesterday's taciturnity. [11]
His interests were varied and his activity was unremitting. [4]
She had got up at eight that morning and had been in a fever of excitement and activity all day. [2]
This invitation promised to lend fresh distinction to her social position, and open a sphere of activity which suited her taste. [10]
Adrian's activity for this night was not yet over, for his father did not prevent his accompanying him to the town-hall. [10]
The historians call this activity of the historical figures "the reaction. [2]
Another branch of this activity is the so-called syndicating of the author's products in the control of one salesman, in which good work and inferior work are coupled together at a common selling price and in common notoriety. [4]
It is, I think, fortunate, and not at all discreditable, that our little vanity, which is reckoned among our weaknesses, is thus made to contribute to the activity of our nobler powers. [4]
During this period there was at the North, and especially in the East, great intellectual activity and agitation, and agitation ethical and moral as well as intellectual. [4]
With regard to the probability of this war, he had much to expect from the activity of his sister in the Netherlands, and though she now advocated peace, in the twelfth hour, which must soon strike, he could rely upon her. [10]
In front of the minister's barn under the elms on the hill Cynthia pulled the harness from the tired horse with an energy that betokened activity of mind. [9]
It was in the historic line, it was fed and stimulated by all that had gone before, and by all contemporary activity everywhere. [4]
It delighted in the activity of his life, it was full of hope, of promise of happiness for them both in the future, but it had no solicitude for Guida in the present. [11]
The activity of the "elements" has a great effect upon country folk especially; and it is a more wholesome excitement than that caused by a great conflagration. [4]
His activity at that time was no less astounding than it was in Egypt, in Italy, in Austria, and in Prussia. [2]
And I think that the Great Idea, great as it was, would have enjoyed but a brief activity, and would then have gone to sleep again for some more centuries, but for the perpetuating impulse it got from that organized and tremendous force. [5]
All historians agree that the external activity of states and nations in their conflicts with one another is expressed in wars, and that as a direct result of greater or less success in war the political strength of states and nations increases or decreases. [2]
I did think that putting in these turnips so late in the season, when general activity has ceased, and in a remote part of the garden, they would pass unnoticed. [4]
But how did that old man, alone, in opposition to the general opinion, so truly discern the importance of the people's view of the events that in all his activity he was never once untrue to it? [2]
This activity was that of a mind essentially concerned to find how many ways it could see for escape from a maze of things; while his vanity was taking new forms. [11]
There is just that lazy activity about a volcano, ordinarily, that satisfies your demand for something that is not exactly dead, and yet does not disturb you. [4]
The truth is that in all the years of his activity be has never had such an antagonist as Mr. Flint. [9]
Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never occurred to him. [2]
If a sledge-hammer strikes you on the skull, though your skull is of such a hardness that it does not break, still the shock numbs activity for awhile, at any rate. [11]
There is no sphere of human activity so exalted that she may not be called upon to fill it. [6]
But that man, so heedless of his words, did not once during the whole time of his activity utter one word inconsistent with the single aim toward which he moved throughout the whole war. [2]
This sort of scholarship, of widely apprehending intellectual activity, keeping step with modern ideas so far as they are historically grounded, is of the first importance. [4]
It suffices to say of it here, in a general way, that the most vigorous activity has been in the departments of history, of applied science, and the discussion of social and economic problems. [4]
It will be said that the general intelligence is raised, that the habit of reading is much more widespread, and that the increase of books, periodicals, and newspapers shows a greater mental activity than existed formerly. [4]
The old man, roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. [2]
At last she rose, her body steady, but her hands having that tremulous activity of her eyes. [11]
And, indeed, human reason replies: every time conquerors appear there have been wars, but this does not prove that the conquerors caused the wars and that it is possible to find the laws of a war in the personal activity of a single man. [2]
In the first place the historian describes the activity of individuals who in his opinion have directed humanity (one historian considers only monarchs, generals, and ministers as being such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and poets). [2]
Who were the people, then, to whose activity, influence, or standing with the community was owing all the temporary excitement produced by the Metallic Tractors? [6]
Euphrasia, when she paused in her bodily activity to darn their stockings, used to glance at them covertly from time to time, and many a silent tear of which they knew nothing fell on her needle. [9]
How should the past life of nations and of humanity be regarded--as the result of the free, or as the result of the constrained, activity of man? [2]
There were, however, other literary enterprises in which he was concerned; for the calls upon him were numerous, his own appetite for work was insatiable, and his activity was indefatigable. [4]
He had sunk one part of himself far below the level of activity or sensation, while new resolves, new powers of mind, new designs were set in motion to make his career a real and striking success. [11]
These being cast on the floor in a promiscuous heap, yielded a quantity of occupation in arranging, erecting, and putting away; the superintendence of which task evidently afforded the old gentleman extreme delight, and engaged him for some time with great briskness and activity. [12]
They had determined on strategic wrestling, and not on the instant activity of fists. [11]
At the end of the week the prince reappeared and resumed his former way of life, devoting himself with special activity to building operations and the arrangement of the gardens and completely breaking off his relations with Mademoiselle Bourienne. [2]
The ancient grudge of the Fawes against the Druses had gained power and activity by the self-imposed exile of Gabriel Druse; and Jethro had worked upon it. [11]
Not to speak of the fact that no description of the collective activity of men can do without the conception of power, the existence of power is proved both by history and by observing contemporary events. [2]
I am conscious of my imperfections, and my mind has been for a long time past so pressed upon and agitated by various cares and anxieties, that I fear it has lost much of its cheerfulness and some of its activity. [4]
And the activity of her mind centered around Lassiter. [13]
To one department of activity, especially, that of gardening, he devoted his whole powers. [10]
The old look of activity was fading; something vital had struck soul and body. [11]
Of the immense number of indications accompanying every vital phenomenon, these historians select the indication of intellectual activity and say that this indication is the cause. [2]
It is easy now to understand the significance of these events--if only we abstain from attributing to the activity of the mass aims that existed only in the heads of a dozen individuals--for the events and results now lie before us. [2]
Their activity would not have existed: there would have been no life, there would have been nothing. [2]
If Ruth did not find so much luxury in the house as in her own home, there were evidences of culture, of intellectual activity and of a zest in the affairs of all the world, which greatly impressed her. [5]
I can conceive no more dreary existence than that of a man who is past the period of business activity, and who cannot, for his entertainment, his happiness, draw upon the great reservoir of literature. [4]
His activity in Moscow was as amazing and as full of genius as elsewhere. [2]
But as the moral activity is inconceivable without the physical, the cause of the event is neither in the one nor in the other but in the union of the two. [2]
She had no mission, nor was she afflicted by that modern form of altruism which is a yearning for notoriety by conspicuous devotion to causes and reforms quite outside her normal sphere of activity. [4]
One of the minor pleasures of life is that of controlling vegetable activity and aggressions with the pruning-knife. [4]
I urged the man that had been crazy to go, for I thought activity would do him good. [11]
We must not make too much of such exceptional cases of prolonged activity. [6]
There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder. [2]
She was as little as he was big, but what energy, what tireless activity this dainty, delicate woman possessed! [10]
To that end Kutuzov's activity was directed during the whole campaign from Moscow to Vilna--not casually or intermittently but so consistently that he never once deviated from it. [2]
Innocent of a knowledge of the principles of the universe, he lives in a state of ceaseless activity, admitting no limitations, impatient of all restrictions. [9]
On this ground Joseph Alexeevich condemned my speech and my whole activity, and in the depth of my soul I agreed with him. [2]
The return of Jethro Bass to activity seriously complicates the railroad situation, and many prominent politicians are freely predicting to-night that, in spite of the town-meeting returns, the proposed bill for consolidation will not go through. [9]
David's mind, with its equity, its balance, and its fire--what might it not have accomplished in shepherding such a cause, guiding its activity? [11]
But how would it be when she was withdrawn from this peaceful activity of nature and set down among "those garish lights" in Cavendish Square and Piccadilly? [11]
Some have regarded it as in obedience to the feminine instinct for the cultivation of patience and self-denial --patience in a fruitless activity, and self-denial in the eternal act of mastication without swallowing. [4]
If this precept is used discreetly, it is very serviceable; but it is as well to recognize the fact that you cannot know something about everything in days like these of intellectual activity, of literary and scientific production. [6]
The second method is to consider the actions of some one man--a king or a commander--as equivalent to the sum of many individual wills; whereas the sum of individual wills is never expressed by the activity of a single historic personage. [2]
When the year is over, the amount that has been accomplished by this incessant activity can hardly be estimated. [4]
When the mind is in torture and the spirit is torn, the instinctive effort is to bodily activity, to force physical exertion, as if there must be compensation for the mental strain in the weariness of nature. [4]
The city police is established on its former footing, and better order already prevails in consequence of its activity. [2]
And yet it is difficult to imagine an historical character whose activity was so unswervingly directed to a single aim; and it would be difficult to imagine any aim more worthy or more consonant with the will of the whole people. [2]
This system alone includes all those social conditions and those general and diverse feelings, the simultaneous conjuncture and activity of which constitute for us at the present day the spectacle of human things. [4]
The New-Englander, by incessant activity, hopes to get warm. [4]
They see it in what is called culture--in mental activity. [2]
There is something in the life and movement that seems to satisfy all the desire for activity they have. [4]
But literature, though in it lay his chief interest, was but one of the subjects which employed his many-sided activity. [4]
The essay was in his nature, and his occupation as a journalist had developed the tendency towards this form of literary activity, as well as skill in its manipulation. [4]
The scene kindled in him a vigorous sense of life, of prosperity, of longing for the activity of the great world. [4]
He found himself in form, feature, expression; the bold vigilance of eye, the primitive activity of shoulder, the small firm foot, the nervous power of the hand. [11]
How it flattered his ambition, what a way to all activity it opened out to him! [10]
She had lost her joyous activity, her eyes were often wet with tears, and she moved with drooping head as if some heavy care oppressed her. [10]
Her interpretation of her creed and her religious activity in fidelity to it, her acceptance of mysterious and holy Mormon truths, were all invested in this Bishop. [13]
In the rider's heart were a hundred things; among them fear, that miserable depression which comes with the first defeats of life, the falling of the mercury from passionate activity to that frozen numbness which betrays the exhausted nerve and despairing mind. [11]
In the very heart of this exquisite and picturesque country-side the ugly, grim life of the miner had established itself, and had then turned an unlovely field of industrial activity into a cock-pit of struggle between capital and labour. [11]
In one instance he stood on his feet twenty-four hours fighting for his life with these sharp agonies, and yet was as full of life and cheer and activity the next day as if nothing had happened. [5]
The reader can hardly have failed to notice that the old Anchor Tavern had become the focal point where a good deal of mental activity converged. [6]
At Bremerton, it had not gathered in the pockets, he had used it all--all had counted; but in the feverish, ceaseless activity of the city parish he had never once felt that intense satisfaction of emptying himself, nor, the sweet weariness that follows it. [9]
There is the German nation of our day, the most aggressive in various fields of intellectual activity, a Hercules of scholarship, the most thoroughly trained and powerful--though its civilization marches to the noise of the hateful and barbarous drum. [4]

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