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Sentences ending with capacity

As for his young pupil, she has often thought of being a teacher herself, so that she is of course very glad to acquire any accomplishment that may be useful to her in that capacity. [6]
Something of Mr. Worthington's affairs was known: the mills, for instance, were not being run to their full capacity. [9]
A common and very simple reason for this disappointment is that most of us overrate our capacity. [6]
I was on the flag-stones, for there was, no furniture in the den except a long, broad board, or combination of boards, like a barn-door, and this bed was accommodating five or six persons, and that was its full capacity. [5]
It was not that he lacked capacity. [4]
Yes, and he stood before himself in the same capacity. [9]
Naturally a hotel so dainty in its service and furniture, and so refined, was crowded to its utmost capacity. [4]
It is more remarkable that parrots, belonging to a group distinct from the Insessores, and having differently constructed vocal organs, can be taught not only to speak, but to pipe or whistle tunes invented by man, so that they must have some musical capacity. [1]
Then the Secretary of the Navy asked me who I was; and when I told him I was connected with the government, he wanted to know in what capacity. [5]
The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. [5]

Short sentences using capacity

I have capacity. [11]

Sentences containing capacity two or more times

And the capacity to understand is as good a proof of vocal intelligence, though in an inferior degree, as the capacity to speak. [1]
Carnac Grier, true to his nature, had travelled from incident to incident, from capacity to capacity, apparently without system, yet actually with the keenest desire to fulfil himself; with an honesty as inveterate as his looks were good and his character filled with dark recesses. [11]
That the actual capacity of a channel through alluvium depends upon its service during floods has been often shown, but this capacity does not include anomalous, but recurrent, floods. [5]

More example sentences with the word capacity in them

Born old, one would, of course, inherit experience, so that wealth could be made to contribute to happiness, and each day, instead of lessening the natural powers and increasing infirmities, would bring new vigor and capacity of enjoyment. [4]
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. [5]
Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
One or two were poltroons in body and mind, with only a real instinct for money-making and a capacity for constructive individualism. [11]
And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a sign of strength. [2]
But the change was not from the capacity of making a fool of myself. [8]
It is a very bad business, said the Brandon parliament, and it just shows that the whole country is losing its moral sense, its capacity to judge what is right and what is wrong. [4]
Kruger will put up the price to the full capacity of the victim. [11]
He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it. [2]
Swinging in this tree-top, with a vivid consciousness of life, of his own capacity for action, it seemed a pity that he could not follow the drum and the flag into such contests as he read about so eagerly. [4]
She admonished me, too, against liquor-drinking, and whatever capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I may have attained through life, I attribute to having complied with her pious and correct wishes. [5]
It was wanting to work a human brain to its last volt of capacity, and to see what it could do. [11]
The large addition to the regular army, in connection with the defection that has so considerably diminished the number of its officers, gives peculiar importance to his recommendation for increasing the corps of cadets to the greatest capacity of the Military Academy. [7]
I never failed to take such noates by wrighting out of his doctrine as my capacity could comprehend, unless some raynie day hindred my endeavor. [4]
The chaplain arose to pray for guidance, and the House was crowded to its capacity, and the gallery filled with eager and expectant faces--but the hero of the hour had not yet arrived. [9]
Yet he seems to have been mainly intent upon society and the amusements of the passing hour, and, without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity, he yielded to the temptations of indolence, and settled into the unpromising position of a "man about town. [4]
During the whole time that I was connected with the government it seemed as if I could not do anything in an official capacity without getting myself into trouble. [5]
He had gone through so much within the past twenty-four hours that the capacity for suffering had almost exhausted itself, and in the reaction endearing thoughts of Rosalie had dominion over him. [11]
What most surprised those who knew him as a young man was, not his ambition, not his brilliancy, but his dogged, continuous capacity for work. [6]
The beauty of this condescension to literature of which we speak is that it has that quality of spontaneity that does not presuppose either a capacity or a call. [4]
Beneath her abstractions there was a capacity of loving which might have been inferred from the expression of her features, the light that shone in her eyes, the tones of her voice, all of which were full of the language which belongs to susceptible natures. [6]
Not only was there this steady growth of intellect, but the infinite delicacy of his nature and its capacity for refinement developed also, as exhibited in the purity and perfection of his language and style of speech. [7]
The Count Almodovar then introduced me to the Queen in my official capacity, and she received me with a grave and quiet welcome, expressed in a very low voice. [4]
Revolutions are often the work of instants, not years, and the crucial test and problem by which Grassette was now faced had lifted him into a new atmosphere, with a new capacity alive in him. [11]
That reason is the wonderful capacity of the man,--the power he has of doing what would seem to be impossible. [7]
Two years later, the same stockholders increased their capital to $225,000; added a third story to the mill, increased its length to 317 feet; added machinery to increase the capacity to 10,300 spindles and 304 looms. [5]
If I had the privilege, which unfortunately I have not got, of suggesting things to the legislators in my individual capacity, I would so enjoy the opportunity that I would not charge anything for it at all. [5]
She wrote to the outside visitors whom she suspected of capacity, and urged them to speak at the meetings, or send written papers to be read. [6]
Broca thus explains the otherwise inexplicable fact, that the mean capacity of the skull of the ancient Troglodytes of Lozere is greater than that of modern Frenchmen. [1]
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. [5]
He was serving the Nepal Government in a high capacity at the Court of the Viceroy of India, twenty years ago. [5]
Nor is it the mere capacity of connecting definite sounds with definite ideas; for it is certain that some parrots, which have been taught to speak, connect unerringly words with things, and persons with events. [1]
This disposition on the left flank increased Pierre's doubt of his own capacity to understand military matters. [2]
The fact that the individuals composing our Supreme Court have, in an official capacity, decided in favor of the constitutionality of the Bank, would, in my mind, seem a sufficient answer to this. [7]
She came to the conclusion that all capacity for intense feeling had been burned out of her. [9]
It is within the capacity of even the humblest of us to attain this. [4]
I should say that the fashionable skepticism of today, here and in England, is in regard to universal suffrage and the capacity of the people to govern themselves. [4]
I tell Maria that if I had the capacity for making money that she has for spending it I could assume the national debt. [4]
For action he takes special degrees, capacity, skill, trustworthiness; for perception, consciousness, insight, clearness. [10]
Dyck had learned swordsmanship with as skilled a master as Ireland had known, and he had shown, in getting knowledge of the weapon, a natural instinct and a capacity worthy of the highest purpose. [11]
She had a strong brain and a stronger will, but she had a capacity for feeling greater still, and this gave her imagination, temperament, and-- though it would have shocked her to know it--a certain credulity, easily transmutable into superstition. [11]
It is a steam ram, built so as to sacrifice nearly all capacity for carrying to those of speed and strength, so as to be able to split any vessel having hollow enough in her to carry supplies for a voyage of any distance. [7]
But at a station beyond Lewiston our tourists were reminded of it, and of its capacity for adopting our civilization in its most efflorescent development. [4]
Take a truer standard: the measure of a man's contributing capacity to his time and his people--the work he can do--and then number the population of this country to-day, as multiplied by what a man can now do, more than his grandfather could do. [5]
They brought him sorrow, but they brought him likewise the capacity and opportunity for large enjoyment, and at the last they laid upon him a kind of benediction. [5]
Everybody appreciates certain social properties, and likes his neighbour for possessing them; but perhaps few dwell upon a friend's capacity for the intellectual, or care how this might expand, if there were but facilities allowed for cultivation, and space given for growth. [14]
If it is so that I have some instinct for the life of Canada, and have expressed it to the world with some accuracy and fidelity, it is apparent that the capacity for understanding could not be limited absolutely to one environment. [11]
It exhibits Smith's skill as a writer and his capacity for rising into poetic moods. [4]
Forgive, if my sentences be broken and imperfect; the time was short, and my capacity only that of a poor and simple maiden. [10]
With a great sense of humour, she had also an infinite capacity for taking things seriously--with an almost sensational gravity. [11]
Each car had seating capacity for half-a-dozen persons; and when the curtains were up one was substantially out of doors, and could see everywhere, and get all the breeze, and be luxuriously comfortable. [5]
But I may say that this book was gravely important to me, because it was to test all my capacity for writing a novel with an historical background, and, as it were, in the custom of a bygone time. [11]
No art is required, nor any selection, nor any ideality, only capacity for increasing the vacuous commonplace in life. [4]
Passion, perhaps, is replaced by a great capacity for friendliness, and she was never more a real woman than in these mellow and reflective days. [4]
He has to provide himself with the means of a livelihood, and this he did in some capacity at the theater. [5]
He would consequently possess some capacity for self-command. [1]
Some discussed the position that had been chosen, criticizing not the position itself so much as the mental capacity of those who had chosen it. [2]
In the remote parts of his being there was the capacity for the phenomenal, the strange. [11]
In the pleasurable pain of such a mood he drew his bow across the strings with a sweeping stroke, and then, for an instant, he ran hither and thither on the strings testing the quality and finding the range and capacity of the instrument. [11]
Build me an oval with smooth, translucent walls, and put me in the centre of it with Newton's "Principia" or Kant's "Kritik," and I think I shall develop "an eye for an equation," as you call it, and a capacity for an abstraction. [6]
Hers was one of those volcanic natures, defying calculation and ordinary conceptions of life; having the fullest capacity for all the elementary passions--hatred, love, cruelty, delight, loyalty, revolt, jealousy. [11]
We have evidence of this capacity even low down in the animal scale: thus Crustaceans are provided with auditory hairs of different lengths, which have been seen to vibrate when the proper musical notes are struck. [1]
Speaking of one of them one day, Father Damon had said that it seemed a pity a fellow of such family and capacity and fortune should go to the devil merely for the lack of an object in life. [4]
Could he be of service to you or to Tennessee in any capacity in which I could send him? [7]
Bought with some of money obtained by first article for M. D." That capacity for work, incomparable gift, was what she had always coveted the most. [9]
I don't speak of his capacity as a general, but at a time like this how they appoint a decrepit, blind old man, positively blind? [2]
One great advantage of her temperament, it is true, had vanished with her physical beauty and strength--the capacity to hope for happiness and joy. [10]
But he thought of Di Welldon and of her criminal brother, and every nerve, every faculty was screwed to its utmost limit of endurance and capacity. [11]
Away from his occupation, away from the cares of the household and the demands of society, what is the self-sustaining capacity of the ordinary American man or woman? [4]
There is this noble capacity in man to respond to the divinest thing visible to him in this world. [4]
It had had no preparation for the situation now upon him, and its accustomed capacity was suddenly paralyzed. [11]
I believe that no fault can be pointed out in that argument; assuming the truth of the premises, the conclusion, so far as I have capacity at all to understand it, follows inevitably. [7]
Perhaps there is no danger, but the American people have developed an unexpected capacity for destroying things; they can destroy anything. [4]
Hence there is no abstract improbability in the Lepidoptera, which probably stand nearly or quite as high in the scale as these insects, having sufficient mental capacity to admire bright colours. [1]
Nothing further was needed; usually no questions were asked, no proofs of capacity required. [5]
But that is Mr. Mabie in his public capacity. [5]
Maude had a more lasting capacity for pleasure than I, a keener enjoyment of new experiences, and as she lay beside me in the steamer-chair where I had carefully tucked her she would exclaim: "I simply can't believe it, Hugh! [9]
The Rosalie Yarn Mill, of Natchez, has a capacity of 6,000 spindles and 160 looms, and employs 100 hands. [5]
This was a mere stroke of pleasantry on his part, because, the most he could loot in that far North were furs and caches of buffalo meat; and a man's capacity and use for them were limited. [11]
His control of men was marvellous; his knowledge of finance was instinctive; his capacity for organization was rare, and he had health unbounded and serene. [11]
They will never meet in the plane of their activities so as to coincide in capacity or performance. [4]
Natural woman was measurably (that is, a capacity of being measured) restored to the world. [4]
They did not mean to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity. [7]
They did not mean to say all men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development, or social capacity. [7]
It seems to me that, even should such space and facilities be denied by stringent circumstances and a rigid fate, still it should do you good fully to know, and tenaciously to remember, that you have such a capacity. [14]
She looked upon me in the same light as did my other friends, --that of a counsellor-at-law,--and I fell unconsciously into the role of her adviser, in which capacity I was the recipient of many confidences I would have got in no other way. [9]
I looked about me for the right sort of person to accompany me in the capacity of agent, and finally hired a Mr. Harris for this service. [5]
However, the mere matter of capacity is a thing of no sort of consequence, since the cask is empty, and indeed has always been empty, history says. [5]
If I left Mandeville alone in the garden long enough, I have no doubt he would impartially make an end of the fruit of all the beds, for his capacity in this direction is as all-embracing as it is in the matter of friendships. [4]
How far each man values the appreciation of others, depends on the strength of his innate or acquired feeling of sympathy; and on his own capacity for reasoning out the remote consequences of his acts. [1]
This country, sir, maintains, and means to maintain, the rights of human nature, and the capacity of men for self-government. [7]
He had a low forehead and a wide mouth and small eyes, and an internal capacity that was a prophecy of famine to his fellow-men. [4]
I hesitate a little to speak of his capacity for friendship and the affectionateness of his nature, for I know from his own reserve that he would not care to have it much talked about. [4]
They whose tragedy lies in the capacity to suffer greatly, being given the woe of imagination, bring forth inner history as a mother gasps life into the world. [11]
When he was left alone and had regained the capacity to think, he felt convinced that he was in one of the dungeons of the Inquisition. [10]
How dear the latter was to him, and how fully his aged heart had retained its capacity of feeling, were proved by the reception which he gave the returning knight. [10]
The noblest Egyptians kept house-dwarfs for sport, and this little wight served the wife of Mena in this capacity. [10]
As Tarboe grasped it in his own big paw, he was conscious of a strength in the grip which told him that the physical capacity of the "painter-fellow," as he afterwards called Carnac, had points worthy of respect. [11]
And so be it an everlasting testimony for them, and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self-government. [6]
To have imagination is unquestionably to possess a great capacity for suffering, and Honora was paying the penalty for hers. [9]

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