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Sentences ending with aim

And meanwhile, the very next morning after the battle, the French army advanced of itself upon the Russians, carried forward by the force of its own momentum now seemingly increased in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from its aim. [2]
Have you heard us assert that as our aim? [7]
In times like these the faith is the man; and they to whom it is given in larger measure owe a special duty to those who for want of it are faint at heart, uncertain in speech, feeble in effort, and purposeless in aim. [6]
The Frenchman also stopped and took aim. [2]
Eugene Forcarde, the reviewer in question, follows Currer Bell through every winding, discerns every point, discriminates every shade, proves himself master of the subject, and lord of the aim. [14]
But if I forgive her for the sake of doing right, then let union with her have only a spiritual aim. [2]
With a madman's cunning, Makar Alexeevich eyed the Frenchman, raised his pistol, and took aim. [2]
Do you really believe that such is our aim? [7]

Short sentences using aim

Go on, aim truly! [10]
I know your aim now. [10]

Sentences containing aim two or more times

If the aim of the European wars at the beginning of the nineteenth century had been the aggrandizement of Russia, that aim might have been accomplished without all the preceding wars and without the invasion. [2]

More example sentences with the word aim in them

If the pilgrims would take deliberate aim and shoot at a man, it would be all right and proper--because that man would not be in any danger; but these random assaults are what I object to. [5]
Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of the aim of an historical personage being so completely accomplished as that to which all Kutuzov's efforts were directed in 1812. [2]
When they were within fifteen yards, I sent that bomb with a sure aim, and it struck the ground just under the horses' noses. [5]
To have dealing with the devil--well, that would send her to the stake in brief order, and that was the deliberate end and aim of this trial. [5]
Since his conversation with Nemu, and the dwarf's interpretation of his dream, the path which he must tread to reach his aim had been plain before him. [10]
It's all very well.... You say: join our brotherhood and we will show you the aim of life, the destiny of man, and the laws which govern the world. [2]
Then it is well with her, for death is not punishment; it is the end and aim of life,--the only end that we can attain without effort, but through sufferings!--the gods alone know how great. [10]
Without reservoirs of wealth there would be no great universities, schools of science, museums, galleries of art, libraries, solid institutions of charity, and perhaps not the wide diffusion of culture which is the avowed aim of modern civilization. [4]
With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden. [2]
It's human life, Washington--just an epitome of human ambition, and struggle, and the outcome: you aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. [5]
If the aim was the progress of civilization, it is easy to see that there are other ways of diffusing civilization more expedient than by the destruction of wealth and of human lives. [2]
If the aim was the dissemination of ideas, the printing press could have accomplished that much better than warfare. [2]
Lost, thrown away, was the aim and end of a long life, rich in self-denial and prayer! [10]
If the aim was the aggrandizement of France, that might have been attained without the Revolution and without the Empire. [2]
Our national aim was ever consistent with the ideal of William James, to advance democracy and put an end to the evil of war. [9]
The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country's inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft. [2]
Wait a bit, wait!--With a definite aim before my eyes I have never yet failed to find my way--in the realm of science, of course; but what is life--the life of the sage but applied knowledge? [10]
I did not wait for him to spring, but, taking the best aim I could with my two hands, fired. [9]
His aim was true; the mustang gave one bound and fell lifeless, shot through the head. [6]
The material truthfulness to which the school of M. Flaubert more especially pretends misses its aim in going beyond it. [6]
For a reply to these questions the common sense of mankind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know themselves. [2]
Then Lewis sprang to the ground and stood in this V. He gathered his vast strength, and with a perfect Creedmoor aim he seized the gray horse's bit as he plunged by and fetched him up standing! [5]
They may be to some extent avoided, to some extent diverted from their aim, to some extent resisted. [6]
Don't be afraid to fire, but take good aim first. [11]
It is impossible to eradicate the passions; but we must strive to direct them to a noble aim, and it is therefore necessary that everyone should be able to satisfy his passions within the limits of virtue. [2]
His aim is to classify and index all that he sees and contemplates so as to show the relations which unite, and learn the laws that govern, the subjects of his study. [6]
He was not to be daunted, attacked them too, split the skull of one, wounded another in the arm and was taking aim for a third blow, when he felt a cord round his neck. [10]
If one accepts this twofold aim all Rostopchin's actions appear irreproachable. [2]
He regarded all these occupations as hindrances to life, and considered that they were all contemptible because their aim was the welfare of himself and his family. [2]
Their central idea, their grand aim, is to subjugate you, keep you down, make you feel insignificant and humble in the blaze of their cosmopolitan glory! [5]
To aim along the turning barrel and hit the thing aimed at was a feat which was probably never done with an "Allen" in the world. [5]
It will be the special aim of the teachers to educate their pupils out of all provincialisms, so that they may be recognized as well-bred English scholars wherever the language is spoken in its purity. [6]
One after another the several chewers expressed a charge of tobacco juice and delivered it at the deceased with steady, aim and faultless accuracy. [5]
The aim of the Russian army was to pursue the French. [2]
He saw through the hypocrisy of the London Company, "making religion their color, when all their aim was nothing but present profit. [4]
In our day the demand here hinted at has taken more definite form and determinate aim, and goes on, visible to all men, to unsettle society and change social and political relations. [4]
O'Connor stepped into the bank, got a shot gun, took deliberate aim at General Mabry and fired. [5]
But what is the aim of your alliance with England? [2]
That search for the aim of life had not merely disappeared temporarily--he felt that it no longer existed for him and could not present itself again. [2]
In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires. [2]
I will wager that there's not one real Egyptian, who would not rather fly from the battle-field than take aim at one of these sacred animals. [10]
How was it that the Russian army, which when numerically weaker than the French had given battle at Borodino, did not achieve its purpose when it had surrounded the French on three sides and when its aim was to capture them? [2]
If you mean that it is our aim to dissolve the Union, I for myself answer that it is untrue; for those who act with me I answer that it is untrue. [7]
It would seem that having rejected the belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it. [2]
I have no sympathy with those who, living out their dreams, turn regretfully to another course or another aim, and wonder-wonder, if a mistake hasn't been made. [11]
He does not stop to load, or consider, or take aim, but lets fly just as he stands. [5]
To throw a stone with as true an aim as a Fuegian in defending himself, or in killing birds, requires the most consummate perfection in the correlated action of the muscles of the hand, arm, and shoulder, and, further, a fine sense of touch. [1]
As the emperor stepped into the gilded imperial wheelbarrow at the church door, the social democrat stabbed at him fifteen or sixteen times with a harpoon, but fortunately with such a peculiarly social democratic unprecision of aim as to do no damage. [5]
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]
The shot spoiled Smith's aim, who was just taking a second chance and he crippled a stranger. [5]
Caesar's scowling brow showed that a storm threatened in that quarter also; and no sooner had he discerned the aim of the crowd than, foaming with rage, he commanded Macrinus to restore order. [10]
He took a short but steady aim, and fired. [11]
So long as she followed him unresistingly he led her on towards the mountain--without aim or fixed destination--but away, away from the abyss. [10]
But you may say that, though it is not our aim, it will be the result if we succeed, and that we are therefore disunionists in fact. [7]
But at the same time other reasons for submitting to his fate suggested themselves unbidden--reasons more worthy of his position, of the whole course and aim of his thoughts, and of the sorrow which weighed upon his soul. [10]
The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth. [2]
Napoleon, predestined by Providence for the gloomy role of executioner of the peoples, assured himself that the aim of his actions had been the peoples' welfare and that he could control the fate of millions and by the employment of power confer benefactions. [2]
Which is the principal aim of these three? [2]
Lawless noticed that Pourcette seemed scarcely to take any aim at all, so swift and decisive was his handling of the gun. [11]
As soon as Pierre began to say anything that did not fit in with that aim, the channel was removed and the water could flow to waste. [2]
The association of persons having this common aim cannot but stimulate effort, soften unworthy rivalry into generous competition, and promote enthusiasm and good fellowship in their work. [4]
It is the Pathfinder's turn now; he steps out before the ladies, takes aim, and fires. [5]
I flattened myself out in the dust like a postage stamp, and thought to myself if he mended his aim ever so little he would probably hear another noise. [5]
To work for our people and their welfare is my highest aim as a man, yours as a woman, and that is a strong bond. [10]
He alone is our origin, aim, and Being. [5]
To make each other happy, and prove their affection, was now the aim of their lives, and as they each had proved that they prized honor and right-doing above happiness their union was a true marriage, ennobling and purifying their souls. [10]
There never was or could have been such an aim, for it would have been senseless and its attainment quite impossible. [2]
I will rely on myself to seek the truth--and do what I feel to be right and good; this, henceforth, shall be the lofty aim of my existence. [10]
The real aim, of the story was to test the doctrine of "original sin" and human responsibility for the disordered volition coming under that technical denomination. [6]
The larger aim of scientific training is to furnish you with principles to which you will be able to refer isolated facts, and so bring these within the range of recorded experience. [3]
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them. [7]
The first aim of his life was not to lose sight of Agatha. [10]
After the deaths of her son and husband in such rapid succession, she felt herself a being accidentally forgotten in this world and left without aim or object for her existence. [2]
With a smothered oath he snatched a musket from Maurice Joval, took steady aim and fired. [11]
His aim was now to awaken the same feeling in the beholders of his Arachne. [10]
The aim was not a bad one, for it took the Master full in the forehead, and had the effect of checking the flow of his eloquence. [6]
Our aim is no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to avoid General Buxhowden who by right of seniority should be our chief. [2]
No high aim, no desire to accomplish good and great things in wider spheres, influenced the thoughts and actions of this couple. [10]
No excuse is needed for treating this subject in some detail; for, as the German philosopher Schopenhauer remarks, "the final aim of all love intrigues, be they comic or tragic, is really of more importance than all other ends in human life. [1]
He grasped a musket and took aim at the French. [2]
He attacked no motive which had a good aim, except in view of some larger and loftier principle. [6]
Nothing is a mistake which comes of a good aim, of the desire for wrongs righted, the crooked places made straight. [11]
All the artful maneuvers suggested by our generals meant fresh movements of the army and a lengthening of its marches, whereas the only reasonable aim was to shorten those marches. [2]
As surely as man is the standard of all things--if it were so, then, then folly would be truth and right.--I, I--my desire--the aim to which my life was devoted. [10]
A common aim makes men grow alike. [10]
And yet, so long as truth remains the highest aim of man, I will bless the faculty of seeking it with all the powers of my mind. [10]
I know that long ago you abandoned the teachings of Epicurus and the Stoa, and with an earnest aim before your eyes sought your own paths. [10]
To understand the laws of this continuous movement is the aim of history. [2]
Our village lads know how to aim better. [10]
And yet he knew, by a sure instinct, that she saw him as she thought he would be, with some aim and purpose in life. [4]
This aim he kept constantly in view; his spirit hungered for peaceful days in which he might act on the resolution he had formed in church and fulfil the task set before him by the Arab governor. [10]
Next time Angelo jumped just as Luigi fired, which disordered his aim and caused him to cut a chip off of Howard's ear. [5]
He ran to it, leaned the musket on the gun, and, regardless of the shots fired at him, took aim steadily. [11]
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]
And yet more incomprehensible is the cessation of that movement when a rational and sacred aim for the Crusade--the deliverance of Jerusalem--had been clearly defined by historic leaders. [2]
What for people in their full vigor is an aim was for her evidently merely a pretext. [2]
He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how Freemasonry presented itself to him. [2]
I took aim in the notch of a sapling, brought him down, cleaned and skinned and dragged him into the water, and triumphantly hauled one of his hams down the trail. [9]
Well, how could I, with all my gifts, make any valuable preparation against a near-sighted, cross-eyed, pudding-headed clown who would aim himself at the wrong tree and hit the right one? [5]

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