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Sentences starting with capable

Capable of the utmost extremes when her hot blood urges her on. [10]
Capable of sacrifice to their country, personal ambition is, nevertheless, the mainspring of their actions. [9]

Sentences ending with capable

She was a woman, and a capricious one, too, and of what would not such a nature be capable? [10]
Antoinette's eyes filled with tears,--tears of pride, of humiliation, ay, and of an anger of which I had not thought her capable. [9]
Dame Susannah intended to find him employment at a future date on her estates, or at Memphis, the centre of their administration, as he might prove himself capable. [10]
The beginning of the new year found him really poorer in purse than he had ever been in his life, but certainly not crushed, or even discouraged--at least, not permanently--and never more industrious or capable. [5]
The majority saw that every act of Dyck had proved him just and capable. [11]
There was no telling of what Jerry Card might be capable. [13]
Indeed, to my surprise, he began to show some enthusiasm, of which sensation I had not believed him capable. [9]
Women he never seemed by a single phrase or word to understand, and yet now he startled her with a sudden revelation and insight of which she had not thought him capable. [11]
We wish to provide a place for our coachman, who has been with us a 21 years, and is sober, active, diligent, and unusually bright and capable. [5]
Some present were of coarse calibre--bushranging sons of seigneurs and petty nobles, dashing and profane, and something barbarous; but most had gifts of person and speech, and all seemed capable. [11]

Short sentences using capable

She was capable of immolation. [9]
And she was capable. [11]
Wahn't she capable? [9]

Sentences containing capable two or more times

I have already learned that what I formerly thought of as the highest happiness is capable of a yet higher pitch, and I now perceive that the most beautiful is capable of growing to greater beauty! [10]

More example sentences with the word capable in them

The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
No one else would have been capable of it. [10]
How overjoyed he would have been at the fulfilment of his wish to see him united to Daphne, at least in heart; with what fiery ardour he would have upbraided those who believed him capable of having appropriated what belonged to another! [10]
Whatever a man would do himself, he thinks others are capable of. [10]
Jealousy!--I believe she would be capable of the worst--" "Yet," Dion interrupted, "Charmian will soften whatever injury Iras plans to do me, and, though I cannot rely much upon my uncle, Archibius is above both and favours us and our marriage. [10]
Obviously no animal would be capable of admiring such scenes as the heavens at night, a beautiful landscape, or refined music; but such high tastes are acquired through culture, and depend on complex associations; they are not enjoyed by barbarians or by uneducated persons. [1]
Looking over this wonderful prospect of the St. Lawrence, he had an insistent feeling that he ought to remain in the land where he was born, and give of whatever he was capable to its life. [11]
Elsie grew up with a kind of filial feeling for him, such as her nature was capable of. [6]
The woman, Kate Wimper, who had helped to send two people to their graves, would now drink the dregs of shame, if she was capable of shame--would be robbed of her happiness, if so be she loved Rube Haman. [11]
Mild, good faces; willing and obedient people; capable, too; but are said to go into hopeless panics when there is danger. [5]
I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
She was not wicked enough to wish that; yet in the past few weeks she had found herself capable of thinking things beyond the bounds of any past experience. [11]
True, the simpletons who were so madly in love with her, and with whom she played so cruelly, would have believed her capable of anything sooner than such kindness. [10]
The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress. [4]
The, stout woman, who had been looking on with that intensity of sympathy of which the poor are capable, began waving gently the palm-leaf fan. [9]
Perhaps half those who are convicted of crimes are as capable of reformation as half those transgressors who are not convicted, or who keep inside the statutory law. [4]
But every one who admits the principle of evolution, must see that the mental powers of the higher animals, which are the same in kind with those of man, though so different in degree, are capable of advancement. [1]
The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
Only the mind which is capable of comprehending the laws of Nature can escape the danger of mistaking the fortuitous, and ever changing reality, for the eternal and unchangeable truth. [10]
If these powers, which differ much in different animals, are capable of improvement, there seems no great improbability in more complex faculties, such as the higher forms of abstraction, and self- consciousness, etc., having been evolved through the development and combination of the simpler ones. [1]
How capable they were, and how wonderful! [5]
The eyes, however, were malignantly intelligent, the hands, ill-cared for, were long, well-shaped and capable, but of a hateful yellow colour like the face. [11]
I think you were capable of it. [5]
I am very well satisfied to think the whole population believed in those poor, cheap miracles--a people who want two cents every time they bow to you, and who abuse a woman, are capable of it, I think. [5]
Perhaps the tale was the more impressive because of Crozier's deep baritone voice, capable, as it was, of much modulation, yet, except when. [11]
And how much was she capable of grasping? [9]
Now Miss Ottway was a good stenographer, she was capable, and a fine woman, but she never got the idea, the spirit of the mill in her as you've got it, and she wasn't able to save me trouble, as you do. [9]
After all, Macrinus was a capable, serviceable officer, and easier to deal with than the Romans of the old noble families. [10]
His wife, Electra, was a capable helpmeet, although--like himself --a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler in romance. [5]
She had really wanted to see how much he was capable of feeling in the matter. [11]
It was the very best green raw-hide, and capable of sustaining tons. [5]
All the air-breathing Vertebrata necessarily possess an apparatus for inhaling and expelling air, with a pipe capable of being closed at one end. [1]
Here was a vast balloon structure, founded on a rock, but built in the air, and anchored with cables, with towers and a high pillared veranda, capable, with its annex, of lodging fifteen hundred people. [4]
No cement was used, but the edifice is firm and compact and is capable of resisting storm and decay for centuries. [5]
It has been urged against the views here maintained that it is impossible to say at what point in the ascending scale animals become capable of abstraction, etc. [1]
It was the upholsterer Specht, who had often put up curtains and done similar work for us, a good and capable workman. [10]
These bright and untarnished spirits were equal to the hardest task and capable of carrying it through with energy, acumen, and success. [10]
It is an unquestionable fact that during the reconstruction period which followed the war, more things were done capable of serving as dangerous precedents than during the war itself. [7]
You probably know Twichell, and will know that that is a kind of refreshment which he is very capable of enjoying. [5]
No nation is truly great without a common ideal, capable of evoking enthusiasm and calling out its energies. [4]
For facts relating to this question we must look to two sources; the recorded experience of the medical profession in general, and the results of trials made according to Homoeopathic principles, and capable of testing the truth of the doctrine. [3]
It is necessary to show, in the next place, that medicinal substances are always capable of curing diseases most like their own symptoms. [3]
How are we to select the few capable men that are to rule all the rest? [4]
Other animals, belonging to quite distinct classes, are either habitually or occasionally capable of breeding before they have fully acquired their adult characters. [1]
I don't want to introduce the question of right and wrong into this, Hugh, I'm not capable of unravelling it; I can't put myself into your life, and see things from your point of view, weigh your problems and difficulties. [9]
I will promise to go into court and swear I think him capable of stealing pea-nuts from a blind pedlar. [5]
The imagination likes to dwell upon this, for the new order is capable of infinite extension. [4]
Barclay is said to be the most capable of them all, but I cannot say so, judging by his first movements. [2]
Thus an ear to be capable of discriminating noises--and the high importance of this power to all animals is admitted by every one--must be sensitive to musical notes. [1]
But assuming it to be a fact that diseases are cured by remedies capable of producing symptoms like their own, no manifest relation exists between this fact and the next assertion, namely, the power of the infinitesimal doses. [3]
Was there yet time--was he yet capable of atoning for what was done by some great and splendid deed? [10]
Ingratitude merely injures those who are capable of it, although it sometimes produces sadness in great souls. [9]
We did not think; we were not capable of it. [5]
He says that the world is more complex, varied, and a thousand times as interesting as it was in what we call its youth, and that it is as fresh, as individual and capable of producing odd and eccentric characters as ever. [4]
Or would not the truer way be to find out whether the Senator was capable of being entrapped into so shameless an act, and then try him? [5]
But gradually as the street lights burned brighter and familiar sights began to appear, she grew more controlled and became capable of reflection. [9]
Tilted pensively against the piano, a guitar--guitar capable of playing the Spanish Fandango by itself, if you give it a start. [5]
The Records of the Pansophian Society contain a considerable number of essays, poems, stories, and hints capable of being expanded into presentable dimensions. [6]
Nascent organs, on the other hand, though not fully developed, are of high service to their possessors, and are capable of further development. [1]
A writer in the 'North British Review' (July 1869, p. 531), well capable of forming a sound judgment, expresses himself strongly in favour of this conclusion. [1]
He thought her the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, but he had never regarded her save as a creation for the perfect pleasure of the eye; he thought her the concrete glory of sensuous purity, no more capable of sentiment than himself. [11]
But I liked the man, and thought there was a good deal of stuff in him; and therefore I wanted his play to be written, and by a capable hand, too. [5]
Ice-water--not prepared in the ineffectual goblet, but in the sincere and capable refrigerator. [5]
The men were the hardest-looking ruffians we had met yet: they were making a bit of road near by, but they seemed capable of turning their hands to easier money-getting; and there couldn't be a more convenient place than this. [4]
Do you think, the Gaulish woman is capable of forgetting her duty? [10]
The plumes on the front or back of the head consist of variously-shaped feathers, sometimes capable of erection or expansion, by which their beautiful colours are fully displayed. [1]
The pupil, nay the friend of the learned Groot, the young wife who had grown up in the society of highly educated men, the enthusiastic patriot, felt that she was capable of being more, far more to her husband, than he asked. [10]
In speaking of the exalted condition the soul is capable of reaching, he says,-- "Every man's words, who speaks from that life, must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. [6]
It had reached the city too late, but on Saturday evening Janus Dousa and Captain Van der Laen were actively engaged, summoning every one capable of bearing arms to appear early Sunday morning. [10]
Miss Ottway was the agent's private stenographer, a strongly built, capable woman with immense reserves seemingly inexhaustible. [9]
I have said, that to show the truth of the Homoeopathic doctrine, as announced by Hahnemann, it would be necessary to show, in the third place, that remedies never cure diseases when they are not capable of producing similar symptoms! [3]
I never imagined that she was capable of a great passion, as was Irene Benson, who under a serene exterior was moved by tides of deep feeling, subject to moods, and full of aspirations and longings which she herself only dimly knew the meaning of. [4]
Cicero frequently said that political economy was the grandest consummation that the human mind was capable of consuming; and even our own Greeley had said vaguely but forcibly that "Political-- [Here the lightning-rod man sent up another call for me. [5]
True, he knew that he was capable of fidelity, for he clung to his friends with changeless loyalty, and was ready to make any sacrifice in their behalf. [10]
Now he rejoiced that he had kept silence; for whatever he might have seen and heard, this fair creature certainly was capable of no base deed. [10]
He had noticed that Farrar was a capable hand in a boat, and suggested that he be sent for. [9]
The Moors of Tangier have so degenerated that it has been long since there was an artificer among them capable of curing so delicate a patient as a debilitated clock. [5]
His deep and sweet humanity won him love and reverence everywhere among those whose natures were capable of responding to the highest manifestations of character. [6]
I have always suspected Grafton Carvel capable of any crime! [9]
Almost overwhelming relief surged through her, a feeling as akin to joy as any she could have been capable of in those gloomy hours of shadow, and one that suddenly stunned her with the significance of what Lassiter had come to mean to her. [13]
It is a sunny, lovable, true woman's heart, and therefore capable of a great love. [10]
Victoria knew now--so strangely--that the man beside her was capable of love, and she had never felt that way about Hilary Vane. [9]
She thought it strange that Virginia herself had never once asked her about Stephen's condition and she spoke of this one day to the Judge with as much warmth as she was capable of. [9]
From where I stood, the two vessels seemed nothing but spars and sails, while their narrow decks, far below, slanting over by the force of the wind aloft, appeared hardly capable of supporting the great fabrics raised upon them. [5]
That you should still be of such good cheer would please or else astonish me if I were still capable of those sentiments. [10]
And in this stage of her progress in the world she showed that she did, though not in the way Carmen would have showed her love, if she had loved, and if she had a soul capable of love. [4]
Yet I am sorry that a man so capable should be so inhuman. [11]
He had no sooner adopted this resolution, than he conveyed as much honesty into his face as it was capable of expressing, and sympathised with Mr Swiveller exceedingly. [12]
For she was shrewd and capable of reasoning, and above all--and from this he hoped the most--she was but a woman. [10]
Sometimes I think she may be capable of doing something foolish like--like Randolph. [9]
On his account she constantly returned to the northern part of the camp which adjoined the road coming from Tanis and where now, at Moses' bidding, the tents of most of the men capable of bearing arms were pitched. [10]
You, every one, shall no longer have a right to think me capable of things which are as repulsive to my nature as to yours. [10]
She who had sent him was so grave and earnest that the bare thought of her being capable of any tender emotion wakened his mirth. [10]
But young Tom seemed to be the only being capable of serenity amongst the flames that played around him. [9]
It could not seem strange to the good people of that place and their visitors that these two young persons, brought together under circumstances that stirred up the deepest emotions of which the human soul is capable, should become attached to each other. [6]
I mean to say that a genuine poem is capable of absorbing an indefinite amount of the essence of our own humanity,--its tenderness, its heroism, its regrets, its aspirations, so as to be gradually stained through with a divine secondary color derived from ourselves. [6]
To no one save his fair young wife would he grant even the smallest ray of the love of which he was doubtless capable, and in which she beheld the sun that dispensed life and light. [10]
By-and-by his Majesty said gravely, and with a touch of genuine compassion, though the words themselves were capable of being interpreted ironically-- "Mind not thy mischance, good man; there be others in the world whose identity is denied, and whose claims are derided. [5]
What's to be said about a government capable of such inefficiency? [9]
Certain kinds of sacrifice she was capable of, she thought, but what I asked would be a useless one. [9]

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