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But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
Then the money would enable her to weave a joy into the sorrow that awaited him. [10]
He and Hooker will so support you on the west and northwest as to enable you to look east and northeast. [7]
She was a widow, and rather poor; consequently she had seen trouble enough to enable her to feel for the unfortunate. [5]
Moreover, his newly-acquired wealth would enable her to help many indigent persons in their need and misery. [10]
For this purpose we placed Cleopatra in the centre of a larger group of people, whom she influences, and who enable her personality to be displayed in the various relations of life. [10]
Unfortunately, perhaps, it was too dark before we reached Henry's to enable us to see the road in all its loops and parallels as it appears on the map, but we gained a better effect. [4]
The principal one was that she would find there several old friends of former days, one of whom, her singing-master Feys, had promised to accept her voice and enable her to serve her art again with full pleasure. [10]
All that was wanted now was ten thousand dollars in cash to enable him to close the great bargain and make his hundred and fifty thousand. [11]
There was a veiled moonlight, which was only just strong enough to enable us to mark the general shape of objects. [5]
It would enable us to teach them that, inasmuch as we select one of their own number to carry out our principles, we are free from the charge that we mean more than we say. [7]
When I got up to see what had happened, the robin was scattered about under the tree in more than a thousand pieces, no one of which was big enough to enable a naturalist to decide from it to what species it belonged. [4]
There is a twofold value in this system: it gives membership a high value in the eyes of the applicant; and at the same time the requirements exacted enable Mrs. Eddy to keep him out if she has doubts about his value to her. [5]
Clear of the town, they took a footpath which struck through some pleasant fields, judging that it would terminate in the road they quitted and enable them to return that way. [12]
The stone lies too far from the water to enable anybody to land on it now, and it is protected from vandalism by an iron grating. [4]
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]
To enable me to do so, please get two copies of each number of your paper containing the whole, and send them to me by express; and I will pay you for the papers and for your trouble. [7]
They changed nothing, they built nothing, they left nothing behind them to remember them by, nothing to hold their disciples together, nothing to solidify their work and enable it to defy the assaults of time and the weather. [5]
Can I wonder then that my presence is not enough to enable a friend of my husband's to forget a little annoyance--the impression left by some slight misunderstanding? [10]
They easily make themselves understood, but it is next to impossible to word an English sentence in such away as to enable them to comprehend it. [5]
Climbing out of the ravine was, in most places, simply impossible; and I began to look with interest for a slide, where bushes rooted in the scant earth would enable me to scale the precipice. [4]
Some hold that the purpose is to enable a woman to dispense with marriage, while others maintain that it is to fit a woman for the higher duties of the married life. [4]
The most of the picture is a manifest impossibility--that is to say, a lie; and only rigid cultivation can enable a man to find truth in a lie. [5]
But I see the government officer coming, and with him the secretary who is to make out passports which will enable you to remain on the Nile unmolested. [10]
Bunce against Graves the court confirmed, wherefore, in accordance with your directions, I moved to have the case remanded to enable you to take a new trial in the court below. [7]
At night, by the camp-fire, we played euchre and seven-up to strengthen the mind--and played them with cards so greasy and defaced that only a whole summer's acquaintance with them could enable the student to tell the ace of clubs from the jack of diamonds. [5]
This gospel of the blessedness of extinction has come too late to enable us to profit by it in our decennial enumeration. [4]
It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises, that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. [5]
Nothing but the strictest hiding can enable me to write my long book in time. [5]
The weather growing still more opaque, it was agreed between myself and the other second that before giving the fatal signal we should each deliver a loud whoop to enable the combatants to ascertain each other's whereabouts. [5]
Then the accused stands up and testifies that he may have done it, but he was receiving and handling a good deal of money at the time and he doesn't remember this particular circumstance--at least with sufficient distinctness to enable him to grasp it tangibly. [5]
The progress of society now begins to produce cases of the transfer for debts of the entire property of railroad corporations; and to enable transferees to use and enjoy the transferred property, legislation and adjudication begin to be necessary. [7]
To reinforce you so as to enable you to resume the offensive within a month, or even six weeks, is impossible. [7]
She uses both rudders all the time, and they are powerful enough to enable her to turn to the right or the left and steer around curves, in spite of the strong resistance of the chain. [5]
Except in the rapidity with which steam and electricity have enabled us to move to our object, and in the discoveries of science which enable us to relieve suffering and prolong human life, there is nothing new in our experiment. [4]
Each said the public talk and the newspaper reports had not so biased his mind but that sworn testimony would overthrow his previously formed opinions and enable him to render a verdict without prejudice and in accordance with the facts. [5]
Could we not pick up a regiment here and there, to the number of say ten thousand men, and quietly but suddenly concentrate them at Sheridan's camp and enable him to make a strike? [7]
Their function, he perceived now, was precisely to compel him to see what had saved him, to reenforce it with the intellect, with the reason, and enable him to save others. [9]
We do not particularly need members of Congress from there to enable us to get along with legislation here. [7]
I, for my part, begin to appreciate the value of frost and snow; for they give the husbandman a little peace, and enable him, for a season, to contemplate his incessant foe subdued. [4]
This is in order to enable our members to prepare what they may wish to say upon the subject with pen and paper, for we are mainly mechanics and unaccustomed to speaking. [5]
It is not only true that a fortune may be made here in a day or lost here in a day, but that a nod and a wink here enable people all over the land to ruin others or ruin themselves with celerity. [4]
Perhaps the papers on file will enable you to judge better than I can. [7]
The prodigious height of the leap, and the precision with which it was taken so as to enable him to dip his head into the hat, exceeded any feat of the kind I have ever beheld. [5]
This experiment has now been in operation long enough to enable us to judge something of its results and its promises for the future. [4]
This, with what nourishment we can get from boot-legs and such chewable matter, we hope will enable us to weather it out till we get to the Sandwich Islands, or, sailing in the meantime in the track of vessels thither bound, be picked up. [5]
Whether elected or not, I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the several States, to enable our State, in common with others, to dig canals and construct railroads without borrowing money and paying the interest on it. [7]
The senate had not been idle and had done all in their power to surround it with magnificence and to enable as many as possible to enjoy the pageant, which had been planned with a lavish hand and liberal munificence. [10]
I know of no other way to enable the reader to "size" the thing. [5]
While we have no doubt of that, or that a proper use of it would procure the poor lad's immediate pardon and liberation, we have a great doubt whether it would, by itself, enable us to reach Quilp, the chief agent in this villany. [12]
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience, enable us to follow Jesus' example. [5]
There is a most elaborate and voluminous Index, and it is preceded by this note: 'This Index will enable the student to find any thought or idea contained in the book. [5]
He paused a moment at the door, and seemed struggling to command his feelings sufficiently to enable him to speak, and then, nodding his head toward his manuscript, ejaculated in a broken voice, "Friend of mine--oh! [5]
And was his mind now clear enough to enable him to remember how great a sum was demanded for ransom? [10]
Thus they had means to enable them to travel farther under an assumed name, and they finally settled in Alexandria. [10]
The elephant whose mate fell into a pit, and who dumped dirt and rubbish into the pit till bottom was raised high enough to enable the captive to step out, was equipped with the reasoning quality. [5]
You have done magnificently with the business, and we must raise the money somehow, to enable you to reap the reward of all that labor. [5]
He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spirit at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur. [5]
Too little is known of the habits of reptiles and fishes to enable us to speak of their marriage arrangements. [1]
That mislaid 'y' is rather striking when a person gets enough of it into a short sentence to enable it to show up. [5]
With him it is a proposition to remove one impediment merely to be met by others which, in his opinion, cannot be removed, to enable Congress to do what, in his opinion, they ought not to do if they could. [7]
Every page is instinct with the love of freedom and with that personal knowledge of the working of free institutions which could alone enable him to do justice to his subject. [6]
The physician had installed Paula in her new home, and had introduced her to the family who were henceforth to be her protectors, and to enable her to lead a happier life. [10]
The error is, indeed, a venial one, but it is just one of those little things which at once enable a lawyer to know if the writer is a layman or "one of the craft. [5]
If he fears, in the unfortunate case of my election, that my going to Washington will enable me to advocate sentiments contrary to those which I expressed when you voted for and elected me, I assure him that his fears are wholly needless and groundless. [7]
It is not in my power to alter what has happened here; but it is incumbent on me so to act as to enable Rome to distribute to each of you that which is your due, according to the treaty ratified by the Republic. [10]
We shall miss her very much; but it is a good cause, and she shall go,--and I shall trust that Providence will enable us to spare her without permanent demage to the interests of the Institootion. [6]
The only improvement he could make would be to enable her to skip a certain three minutes from now; and he asked us if he should do it. [5]
Dodge's $2,000 (Whitmore has power of attorney which I think will enable him to endorse it over to you in my name. [5]
At last he had the incentive to enable him to take his place in the world. [9]
The human eye had seen heaven and earth and all that in them is before it saw itself as our instruments enable us to see it. [6]
He had thus gained that fixed footing outside the earth which Archimedes had demanded to enable him to move it; and he should soon be able to exert his power over departed souls, whose nature he now understood as well as--ay, and better than--Serapion. [10]
This would enable every prudent person to set aside a small annuity against a possible day of want. [7]
The gentle Plotinus even had been roused to great wrath, and no sooner had she left him than he set out for Fostat to invoke the help of Amru, and--finding him absent--of his Vekeel to enable him to pursue the fugitive Melchite sisters. [10]
The gaps would enable you to attack if you should wish. [7]
This knowledge would enable Montcalm to detect Wolfe's purpose, and he would at once move his army in that direction. [11]
Her means would enable her to go there with the maid and live in a quiet way. [10]
The Honorable Heth did not attempt to conceal the smile with which he went away, and he stopped at the store long enough to enable Rias to produce certain refreshments from depths unknown to the United States Internal Revenue authorities. [9]
There isn't any conceivable way to burn this house down, or enable a conflagration on one floor to climb to the next. [5]
What traits of character must a man have to enable him to help three thousand miscreants to hiss, and jeer, and laugh at one friendless old woman, and shamefully humiliate her? [5]
He was restlessly casting about for some assured means of livelihood which would enable him to marry, and perhaps his distrust of a literary career was connected with this desire, when after a short illness Miss Hoffman died, in the eighteenth year of her age. [4]
But this speed by rail will enable us to live in Philadelphia and do business in New York. [4]
The Inter-State Commerce Bill will pass him along without friction from end to end of the Union, and perhaps a uniform divorce law will enable him to change his marital relations at any place where he happens to dine. [4]
An opportunity would be found to enable him to atone for the offence so recklessly committed. [10]
I should not be able to explain to you, gentlemen, how I know it, the signs being so subtle that only long experience and deep study can enable one to detect them. [5]
This last would be a clear indication of policy, and would better enable the country to accept the evacuation of Fort Sumter as a military necessity. [7]
And though earth and sea may tremble, and the charioteer of the sun may forget his dashing steed, yet I am assured that it is only to arm me with divine weapons which will enable me to complete my long-tried intention. [5]
He smiled pleasantly, and said that his manner of speaking was not taught in books, and that nothing but familiarity with lightning could enable a man to handle his conversational style with impunity. [5]
How very drunk, and how recently drunk, and how altogether admirably drunk you must have been to enable you to contrive that masterpiece! [5]
The soldier was always in touch with his own social world, and he had leave sufficient to enable him to break the back of monotony. [11]
We have the altitude, the temperature, and the degree of humidity prevailing --inestimably valuable, since they enable us to estimate with precision the degree of influence which they would exercise upon the mood and disposition of the assassin at that time of the night. [5]
She daily looks all his terrors in the face, yet with proud contempt turns her back upon the bridge which might perhaps enable her for a time to escape the monster. [10]
There is no actual harm in making Niagara a background whereon to display one's marvelous insignificance in a good strong light, but it requires a sort of superhuman self-complacency to enable one to do it. [5]
Each charioteer had a knife in his girdle, to enable him to release himself, in case of accident, from a bond that might prove fatal. [10]

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