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- But it enabled Mr. Ruskin to do it, and it has enabled me to do it, and I am thankful for it. [5]
More example sentences with the word enabled in them
- I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
- The student by whose courtesy we had been enabled to visit the dueling-place, wore the white cap--Prussian Corps. [5]
- And yet these were kindly dispensations, for they at least enabled the poor things to rise from the dead now and then, and look upon life when a steamboat went by. [5]
- Papa continues pretty well;--I hope I shall be enabled to bear up. [14]
- But what shall we say of Mr. Cluyme, and of a few others whose wealth alone enabled them to be Directors of the Fair? [9]
- So the departure was delayed, and only the brave defence of young Philotas, Didymus's assistant, and some of the Ephebi, who joined him, enabled them to escape unharmed. [10]
- Peter checked Honora's trunk, and Peter had got the permission--through Judge Brice--which enabled them all to pass through the grille and down the long walk beside which the train was standing. [9]
- Seeing him talking to Patty, my aunt rose abruptly from her loo and made toward us, all paint and powder and patches, her chin in the air, which barely enabled her to look over Miss Swain's head. [9]
- It enabled him to keep the wonderful record of never having lost his temper, no matter what agony he had to bear. [7]
- Further, it imparted to him a familiarity with their opinions and hopes and aspirations which enabled him to understand and sympathize with feelings in which he did not always share. [4]
- It never failed to give at least temporary relief, but nothing enabled me to sleep in my state-room, though I had it all to myself, the upper berth being removed. [6]
- He seemed carefully to cherish within himself the gloomy mood which alone enabled him to endure his position. [2]
- She would rekindle, though but for the last blaze, the fire of his hero-nature, which blind love for her and the magic spell that had enabled her to bind his will had covered for a time with ashes. [10]
- Whether anything like this ever happened, or was possible, mattered little: it enabled me, at any rate, to suggest the limitations of human responsibility in a simple and effective way. [6]
- What I beheld there, in field and forest, enabled me in after life, when I desired a background for my stories, not to paint stage scenes, but take Nature herself for a model. [10]
- He alluded to the statement that the General Government was interested in these internal improvements being made, inasmuch as they increased the value of the lands that were unsold, and they enabled the government to sell the lands which could not be sold without them. [7]
- And there is the old clock and watch tower, which for eight hundred years has enabled the Augsburgers to keep the time of day and to look out over the plain for the approach of an enemy. [4]
- A pool served the office of refrigerator, and Mr. Cooke had devised an ingenious but complicated arrangement of strings and labels which enabled him to extract any bottle or set of bottles without having to bare his arm and pull out the lot. [9]
- He had been the enemy of waste, the apostle of frugality and thrift; and it was that which had enabled him, in his short career, to win the confidence of the big men behind him in Montreal, to make good every step of the way. [11]
- Money gave you the choice of engaging in an occupation in which you could take an interest and a pride, and enabled you occasionally to go on a spree, if you ever went on a spree, George. [9]
- It appealed to the British public rather more than 'The Right of Way', and the great public of America and the Oversea Dominions gave it a welcome which enabled it to take its place beside 'The Right of Way', the success of which was unusual. [11]
- P. S.--Since writing the above, getting additional information, I am enabled to say that the draft may be made in subdistricts, as the enrolment has been made, or is in process of making. [7]
- It was plain that that stranger had enabled me to make a goose of myself. [5]
- A week before that fifteen minutes of calm reflection would have enabled that man to contrive some last words that would have been a credit to himself and a comfort to his family for generations to come. [5]
- I can not tell to this day what it was that enabled them to detect the coat; but there I stood condemned before them. [11]
- I will now teach, offering my way of life to whomsoever desires to commit suicide by the scheme which has enabled me to beat the doctor and the hangman for seventy years. [5]
- Our admirable jury system enabled the persecuted ex-officials to secure a jury of nine gentlemen from a neighboring asylum and three graduates from Sing-Sing, and presently they walked forth with characters vindicated. [5]
- It is by straws we are enabled to tell which way the wind is blowing, and I first noticed his partiality for Miss Trevor from the absence of the lively conflicts she was wont to have with Farrar. [9]
- It was the spring that made old Withersteen a feudal lord and now enabled his daughter to return the toll which her father had exacted from the toilers of the sage. [13]
- Industry and economy soon enabled him to start a low rum shop in a foul locality, and this gave him political influence. [5]
- Undoubtedly he had snubbed her--that was the word she used in her mind--but his last act had enabled her, in the sight of several habitants and even of Madame Dugal, "to put on airs," as the charming Madame Dugal said afterwards. [11]
- It does not seem to me a sufficient gain in this situation that we are immensely increasing the amount of steel in the world, or that twenty more people are enabled on account of this to indulge in an unexampled, unintellectual luxury. [4]
- At last the report had to be made out; and then, so greatly was the captain beloved, that he was privately informed, and was thus enabled to rush his resignation to Washington ahead of the report. [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]
- In time, the professor was enabled to translate several of the inscriptions with considerable plausibility, though not to the perfect satisfaction of all the scholars. [5]
- He was so popular at home, and so trusted--during his sober intervals --that he was enabled to use the name of a principal citizen, and get a large sum of money at the bank. [5]
- But I am persuaded that the humidity of the atmosphere in these remote regions is such that particles of daylight adhere to the disk and it was by aid of these that we were enabled to see the sun in the dark. [5]
- It is the paper that nature furnishes for lovers in the wilderness, who are enabled to convey a delicate sentiment by its use, which is expressed neither in their ideas nor chirography. [4]
- A man came out of the tall white house and looked into the street, and the moonlight enabled the artist to see all that took place. [10]
- But America, youngest of the nations, was born when modern science was gathering the momentum which since has enabled it to overcome, with a bewildering rapidity, many evils previously held by superstition to be ineradicable. [9]
- I mean loss of good-will, good name--that which would have enabled me to stand up in this village without bitterness. [13]
- Her own misery now at last enabled her to see, however dimly, the woes of others; and it did not matter whether the woes were penalties or undeserved chastisement; the new-born pity of her soul made no choice and sought no difference. [11]
- His purse was now and then replenished by a lucky windfall, which enabled him to extend his travels and seek more adventures. [4]
- Our course was north-northwest, and therefore the wind enabled us to hold it without much trouble. [9]
- I cannot permit myself to comment much on the chief contents of your last; advice is not necessary: as far as I can judge, you seem hitherto enabled to take these trials in a good and wise spirit. [14]
- The next day Mr. Thompson made a hasty survey of the stream for a mile or two, so that the Colonel and Harry were enabled to show on their map how nobly that would accommodate the city. [5]
- The young crescent moon had risen, a circumstance which Medea declared enabled her to see more clearly into the future than she could do at the time of the Luna-negers as she called the moonless night. [10]
- Out of the midst of this thunder and turmoil and tempest rose Dr. Lecher, serene and collected, and the providential length of his enabled his head to show out of it. [5]
- Others had by luck and persistence made money--the basis of their fortunes; but Wallstein had showed them how to save those fortunes and make them grow; had enabled them to compete successfully with the games of other great financiers in the world's stock-markets. [11]
- It was dimly lighted, but familiarity with the place enabled him without difficulty to find his way down the long suite, rather overcrowded with luxurious furniture, statuary, and pictures on easels, to the little library at the far end glowing in a rosy light. [4]
- He would fetch it, in spite of his vow never to wear a sheepskin again; and supposing he were thus enabled to see her, what next? [10]
- But at last it began to shred away lazily, and by the end of another quarter-hour the land was clear and our curiosity was enabled to satisfy itself. [5]
- The parole system in the United States was an attempt to carry out the same experiment, and with it went along the practice which enabled the prisoner to shorten the time of his confinement by good behavior. [4]
- Study, practice, experience in handling my end of the matter presently enabled me to take my new position almost seriously; a little bit later, utterly seriously; a little later still, lovingly, gratefully, devotedly; finally: fiercely, rabidly, uncompromisingly. [5]
- During my residence in Egypt, in 1872-73, a lucky accident enabled me to make many new discoveries; among them one treasure of incomparable value, the great hieratic manuscript, which bears my name. [10]
- Thither he repaired in 1848, and as he had made the best use of his advantages, he was enabled to enter the sophomore class. [4]
- The faculty of imagination lifted me when I was sinking, three months ago; its active exercise has kept my head above water since; its results cheer me now, for I feel they have enabled me to give pleasure to others. [14]
- But, hotly as his blood boiled, the Junker refrained himself, inasmuch as knightly courtesy forbade him to repay Ursula in the like coin; and as it fell Cousin Maud was enabled to aid him in this praiseworthy selfrule. [10]
- His size enabled him to reach all about, and as far as he wanted to, with his head; so he was always biting Bowers's legs. [5]
- Tom's excitement enabled him to keep awake until a pretty late hour, and he had good hopes of hearing Huck's "maow," and of having his treasure to astonish Becky and the picnickers with, next day; but he was disappointed. [5]
- The pension allowed her enabled her to hire a pretty house, and to furnish it with a certain degree of splendour. [10]
- He could not help comparing her with the wretched Neforis; what was it that enabled one to bear the equal loss with so much more dignity than the other? [10]
- More than once he had enabled Dolokhov to escape when pursued. [2]
- Gustave Dore must have learned here how to make those ghostly pictures of the lost floating about in the Stygian pools, in his illustrations of the Inferno; and the rocks and cavernous precipices may have enabled him to complete the picture. [4]
- The sum would have enabled it to do a great work in education. [4]
- I am very happy that he was enabled in truth to congratulate myself and company on that fact. [7]
- Dietel's sharp ears had enabled him to catch these words; but then he was obliged to move again, a table had to be set outside the house for the Nuremberg travellers and their companions, and jugs of wine must be filled for them. [10]
- Her quick intellect had attentively considered what she had heard, and her vivid power of imagination had enabled her to transfer to reality the picture which had already half won her over to her friend's wishes. [10]
- The enemy having given up Corinth, it is not wonderful that he is thereby enabled to check us for a time at Richmond. [7]
- The invitation was given for a week, but through a subterfuge--unpremeditated, and certainly fair enough in a matter of love-he was enabled to considerably prolong his visit. [5]
- But his spike-horns gave him an advantage, and enabled him to propagate his peculiarity. [1]
- Thus reinforced our gallant army will be enabled to realize the hopes and expectations of the government and the people. [7]
- I had lain for a long time on my back; but after I got them, I learned to walk with them and they enabled me to stand before the loom, and to earn bread once more for my family. [10]
- But before the fact had enabled King to settle the position of his new acquaintance satisfactorily to himself, Mrs. Stubbs upset his estimate by quoting Tennyson. [4]
- It was his exceeding temperance in all things which enabled him to venture upon the assumption and succeed in the accomplishment of tasks which men, physically far stronger than he, would have shrunk from under-taking, even had they been possessed of the same abilities. [4]
- We are thus enabled without much trouble to rear breeds with their plumage marked almost as symmetrically as in natural species. [1]
- We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. [4]
- For man is enabled through his mental faculties "to keep with an unchanged body in harmony with the changing universe. [1]
- It might have enabled men to reach a better country, but not, while on earth, to rise into and live in that better country, or to live in a region above the sordidness of actual life. [4]
- The fog had enabled him to search out a good hiding-place unobserved. [5]
- Only his ears enabled him to receive the praises, honours, congratulations lavished here and, though he sometimes thought he had received enough, he again listened willingly and intently when a new speaker addressed him in warm words of eulogy. [10]
- He had no doubt of it, the man replied, for he had heard his Majesty remark that, if the marquise's companion was not to become the toy of her caprices, she must be enabled to obtain what she desired independently of the old lady. [10]
- Diaz had ignominiously died of the bite of a tarantula before a blow had been struck, but Higli had gratefully received a slight wound in the first encounter, which enabled him to beat a safe retreat to Cairo. [11]
- Guided by his demonstration, we are enabled to dissect out to their ultimate issues the minutest ramifications of intrigue. [6]
- Fortunately a good deal of experience of men enabled me to choose my residence wisely. [5]
- He might be deaf to every sound and forever dumb, but seeing enabled him still to carry forward every enterprise. [11]
- This by and by enabled me to note two things: that he had killed his victims in every quarter of the globe, and that these victims were always named Lynch. [5]
- It was nothing but Joan's confidence in his discretion that enabled her to keep up her heart. [5]
- Clemens was then building the stately mansion in which he satisfied his love of magnificence as if it had been another sealskin coat, and he was at the crest of the prosperity which enabled him to humor every whim or extravagance. [5]
- The parlour had been evidently refurnished within the last few years, since Miss Bronte's success has enabled her to have a little more money to spend. [14]
- However, I shall be ready, and happy, to afford you still further information upon the subject, from time to time, as you may desire it and the Post-office Department be enabled to furnish it to me. [5]
- May we all be enabled to fight it well! [14]
- But one glance at her sister and another at him enabled her speedily to guess the truth. [10]
- He was earning applause, and this enabled his party to turn that fact to account. [5]
- It enabled her also to have her own family near her, and to see some of them daily. [5]
- General Buxhowden was all but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. [2]
- He had had a sure thing then, and it was whisked away just when it would have enabled him to pass the crisis of his life. [11]
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