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Sentences starting with exert

Exert thy power. [5]

Sentences ending with exert

It was a fascination like that which the rattlesnake is said to exert. [6]

Sentences containing exert two or more times

His power is greater than any power on earth, and, though a well-grounded wrath and only too just indignation urge you to exert the power lent you by him--" "And I will exert it! [10]

More example sentences with the word exert in them

What she now wrote to John could hardly exert much influence upon him. [10]
I hope you will exert your influence to prevent this. [7]
If the latter were not greatly my superior, and I could exert my whole strength to clasp him to me, he was lost. [10]
Even Mrs. Holt was not wholly proof against the charms of Trixton Brent when he chose to exert himself; and for some reason he did so choose. [9]
I was obliged to exert the utmost care and caution, for in many places the road was not two yards wide, and often the lower side of it sloped away in slanting precipices eight and even nine feet deep. [5]
The agitatores had to exert all their strength to hold in the startled and eager teams, and make them stand even for a few short minutes; then Cynegius signalled for the third time. [10]
I will try to exert a little influence in favor of the bill. [5]
At any other time it would have been a joy to pause and look round, only to breathe and let the silent magic of the night exert its spell; but Paula's soul was closed against these charms. [10]
And more than this, read nine of these cases, which he has published, as I have just done, and observe the absolute nullity of aconite, belladonna, and bryonia, against the symptoms over which they are pretended to exert such palpable, such obvious, such astonishing influences. [3]
Hitherto her austere reserve had been invincible, and during the greater part of their interviews he had been compelled to exert all his influence to soothe, appease her, and atone for imprudent acts which he had committed. [10]
Surely the magic of her art must exert a totally different influence upon the man to whom her whole being attracted her than upon the worthy folk here, for whom she cared nothing. [10]
When they at last reached their destination, Philotas was forced to exert all his strength to support the exhausted man, while Gorgias cautiously opened the door. [10]
Before the war labour discovered its strength; since the war began, especially in the allied nations with quasi-democratic institutions, it is aware of its power to exert a leverage capable of paralyzing industry for a period sufficient to destroy the chances of victory. [9]
What little influence I exert politically I have to maintain in order to protect the property of my stockholders from annihilation. [9]
My heart beat higher than ever for joy and pride at calling the heart of such a man mine own, and therewith my desire waxed stronger to exert my power. [10]
Perhaps the sublime goddess would again take him to her heart, and exert on him also the power Sophonisba had so fervently praised. [10]
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]
Trouble slips away from him as rain is shaken from the coarse military cloak which he wore in the Parthian war, and therefore it cannot exert its purifying power. [10]
Nevertheless, at Wolf's first visit he was obliged to exert all his powers of persuasion to induce his miserable friend to give up her resolution of moving into her former home. [10]
Her mother's gentle face, still in death, rose before her memory, and she was forced to exert the utmost self-control not to weep aloud. [10]
Alexander had to exert all the strength of his muscles, practised in the wrestling-school, to hold the sufferer on his seat, for his strength, which was not small, was doubled by the demons of epilepsy. [10]
To reduce this excess of baggage, the abbess had been obliged to exert all her energy and authority, and many a sister retired weeping over some dear but too bulky treasure. [10]
Sometimes Laura was exceedingly kind and petted him a little, and took the trouble to exert her powers of pleasing, and to entangle him deeper and deeper. [5]
The many years during which I had practised the habit of caution began to exert an inhibiting pressure. [9]
I know this, and it constrains me to exert my utmost powers in her service. [10]
He found her a good deal excited; for, although she was incapable of any consecutive train of thought and, when her mind was required to exert itself, her ideas only came like lightning-flashes through her brain, she had observed that something unusual was going on. [10]

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