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Sentences ending with faculty

Though only five years my senior, he was already enrolled among the teachers of the legal faculty. [10]
He astounded Twichell with his faculty. [5]
It is hard to understand how she has learned to deal with abstract ideas, and so far to supplement the blanks left by the senses of sight and hearing that one would hardly think of her as wanting in any human faculty. [6]
The same quickened thought of the time which led him to dispute the dogma of the Church, opened his mind to the facts which contradicted the dogmas of the Faculty. [3]
She knew how that active mind of hers would set the young man's thoughts at work, when what he wanted was rest of every faculty. [6]
The University stood it a couple of years; but then for the sake of the college they felt obliged to call a halt, although I had the sympathy of the whole faculty. [5]
Here, during the day, she industriously copied manuscripts' or, from her notebook, letters dictated by various members of the faculty. [9]
They wished to consult Mrs. Falchion in certain matters of costume and decoration, for which, it had been discovered, she had a peculiar faculty. [11]
College Faculty. [5]

Short sentences using faculty

That faculty is memory. [5]

Sentences containing faculty two or more times

In one faculty, at least, there can be no dispute of the gentleman's superiority over me and most other men, and that is, the faculty of entangling a subject, so that neither himself, or any other man, can find head or tail to it. [7]
I suppose there are two kinds of music--one kind which one feels, just as an oyster might, and another sort which requires a higher faculty, a faculty which must be assisted and developed by teaching. [5]

More example sentences with the word faculty in them

I heard his words distinctly, but at first lacked the faculty of stringing them together, or rather of extracting their collective sense. [9]
Here we're endowed with a faculty of mind that ought to be more supremely serviceable to us than them all. [5]
I hope he will carry that faculty of an honest laugh with him wherever he goes,--why shouldn't he? [6]
Some faculty of which I had never before been conscious had awakened in me, and I needed no interpreter to explain the unspoken language of my celestial attendant. [6]
Just as they were about to enter the office, however, Jonas Billings, who had a faculty for being everywhere at the interesting moment, said, so as to be heard by Mazarine and his lawyer, and all others standing near. [11]
We get along well together, and I think he will develop a fine faculty for science. [11]
Perhaps it was well that it should not, for it has taught us a lesson of the healing faculty of Nature which was needed, and for which many of us have made proper acknowledgments. [6]
By these tokens we may perceive that this faculty of our heroine's has been at work, and her canvas already sketched in. [9]
The late arrival was Prof. Arnold von Tungern, dean of the theological faculty at the University of Cologne. [10]
The practical faculty was powerful in Bacon; but not, like his wit, so powerful as occasionally to usurp the place of his reason and to tyrannize over the whole man. [5]
After all, he was a very sane Young Doctor, and he had the faculty of keeping his head, and his heart, and his own counsel. [11]
It was the type of an attribute of man--of a faculty of his heart and brain. [5]
Perhaps then the tormenting thought that blighted his life, the dread that in the prison he had ceased to be an artist, and had lost all his faculty was nothing more than a mad delusion! [10]
There was danger to the man she loved, however, and every faculty was alive. [11]
First of all, there is one faculty which a pilot must incessantly cultivate until he has brought it to absolute perfection. [5]
Perhaps I lacked the reasoning faculty myself. [5]
There was all the news to tell, the harmless gossip of daily life, which Edith had a rare faculty of making dramatically entertaining, with her insight and her feeling for comedy. [4]
In a word, the musical faculty might be said to have a little brain of its own. [6]
She has not the faculty of generalisation--I fancy that's the word to use. [11]
He, too, says that "If an innovator should appear, holding out hope to those in despair, and curing disorders which the faculty have recorded as irremediable, he is at once, and without inquiry, denounced as an empiric and an impostor. [3]
The faculty of telling a story is a much rarer gift than the ability to analyze character and even than the ability truly to draw character. [4]
Morgan, who was so well informed in the gossip of society and so little involved in it--some men have this faculty, which makes them much more entertaining than the daily newspaper--knew the histories of half the people in the room. [4]
He likes to show us human nature at home, as he himself daily sees it; his wonderful observant faculty likes to be in action. [14]
His chief faculty seemed to be to give her the power to behold, with astonishing clearness, objects and truths which had lain before her eyes, and yet hidden. [9]
This Powder was said to have the faculty, if applied to the blood-stained garments of a wounded person, to cure his injuries, even though he were at a great distance at the time. [6]
Little indications and rumors, each trivial in itself, became a mass of testimony that could not be disposed of because of its very indefiniteness, but which appealed strongly to man's noblest faculty, his imagination, or credulity. [4]
This distant cousin resides in another part of France; and on being asked whether he possessed the same faculty, immediately exhibited his power. [1]
Roscoe was always received respectfully, and even cordially, among the salmon-fishers of Sunburst, as among the mill-men and river-drivers of Viking: not the less so, because he had an excellent faculty for machinery, and could talk to the people in their own colloquialisms. [11]
Gulls do not rank high mentally, but this one had memory and the reasoning faculty, you see, and applied them Edisonially. [5]
They were a quiet lot that long association had made clannish; and they had a happy faculty, so rare in summer resorts, of discrimination between an amusement and a nuisance. [9]
Anatole was not quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable self-possession. [2]
It carried the poetic faculty away, and now he's a useful member of society. [5]
The sugar-making faculty of the liver is another "catalytic" mystery, as great as the rest of them, and no greater. [3]
In the name of the Faculty I welcome you, Gentlemen of the Medical Class, new-born babes of science, or lustier nurslings, to this morning of your medical life, and to the arms and the bosom of this ancient University. [3]
A certain amount of natural ability is requisite to make you a good physician, but by no means that disproportionate development of some special faculty which goes by the name of genius. [3]
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]
The ant has observation, the reasoning faculty, and the preserving adjunct of a prodigious memory; she has duplicated man's development and the essential features of his civilization, and you call it all instinct! [5]
Every faculty was now centred on the woman in front of him, and on her life. [9]
But he was not without the faculty of humour; that was why he did not become very excited; it was also why he determined upon a comedy which should have all the elements of tragedy. [11]
His failure was not due to his want of faculty or to the vigor of his opponents. [6]
The answer is no, because command is absent, the reasoning faculty is absent, volition is absent--as in the case of the tongs. [5]
Consequently, there is no power of judgment or faculty of discrimination. [4]
But he himself never claimed any such personal gift, and never attempted any of the exploits which some thought were in his power if he chose to exercise his faculty in that direction. [6]
Just as she needed to work off her spleen so she had sometimes to exercise her still-existing faculty of thinking--and the pretext for that was a game of patience. [2]
All that is necessary is to strengthen the faculty which knows its presence, and give it the proper training, and then you will see and hear them. [10]
Look out upon nature, develop the faculty which you declare to be wanting, in you, and the beauty of creation will teach you without my assistance that you are praying to a false god. [10]
He was a model steward, possessing in the highest degree the faculty of divining the needs and instincts of those he dealt with. [2]
Every faculty of mind, every noble trait of human nature, every high occupation which men engage in, seems represented by a famous name. [5]
We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there is no subject so trivial that it will not grow to infinite proportions if one's entire attention is devoted to it. [2]
And yet, so long as truth remains the highest aim of man, I will bless the faculty of seeking it with all the powers of my mind. [10]
This faculty has justly been considered as one of the chief distinctions between man and the lower animals. [1]
Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? [14]
It came out in the preliminary conversational skirmish, half medical, half social, that I was the twenty-sixth member of the faculty into whose arms, professionally speaking, she had successively thrown herself. [3]
She appears exhaustless in strength and spirits, and indefatigable in the faculty of labour. [14]
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]
It is an illustration of the warping effect of friendship upon the critical faculty that his opinion of Moore at this time was totally changed by subsequent intimacy. [4]
With renewed exasperation I thought of Krebs, of his disturbing and almost uncanny faculty of following me up. [9]
I trusted you, I admired you, for your ability, for your faculty of getting on with men. [9]
The wave of his hand was expansive, his stride was swaying and decisive, his over-ruling, fraternal faculty was always in full swing. [11]
Pierre listened to him, straining each faculty to understand the essential points of the impending battle, but was mortified to feel that his mental capacity was inadequate for the task. [2]
As we borrowed him from your city, I must take this opportunity of telling you that his zeal, intelligence, and admirable faculty as an instructor were heartily and universally recognized among us. [3]
Cynthia, for all her confusion at the meeting, had not lost her faculty of observation. [9]
By this faculty he unites former images and ideas, independently of the will, and thus creates brilliant and novel results. [1]
Therefore he must have seemed to laymen a very compendium of science, yet he never used this faculty to dazzle others or give himself the appearance of erudition. [10]
I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity. [5]
On the one hand, I believe that a person with the poetical faculty finds material everywhere. [6]
For faculty it had herself, her husband of the period (Dr. Eddy), and her adopted son, Dr. Foster-Eddy. [5]
Mr. Bartlett has given me a curious proof how variable this faculty is in monkeys. [1]
Virginia's annoyance came from the fact that she perceived in Stephen a natural and merciless logic,--a faculty for getting at the bottom of things. [9]
He has a fine faculty for uniting business and pleasure. [11]
It was this faculty, Hodder perceived, which had heretofore laid an enchantment upon him, and it was not without a certain wonder that he now felt himself to be released from the spell. [9]
He had the faculty of making us glad to get home. [4]
He has the faculty of learning--of thinking--of feeling--of winning all hearts, even mine. [10]
Ditmar's aplomb, his faculty of getting what he wanted, had amused and distracted her. [9]
You have a faculty of differing with people without quarrelling with them. [9]
He had the faculty of bringing his lessons home, the imagination to put himself into the daily life of those who listened to him,--the life of the storekeeper, the clerk, of the labourer and of the house-wife. [9]
In him this faculty is a sort of captain and leader; and if ever any passage in his writings lacks interest, it is when this master-faculty is for a time thrust into a subordinate position. [14]
Even Pierre's especial faculty and art seemed valueless so far Polewards; but he had his beat throughout the land, and he kept it like a perfect patrolman. [11]
His long, lean face wore a certain expression Janet had come to know, an expression that always irritated Ditmar--the conscientious superintendent having the unfortunate faculty of exaggerating annoyances by his very bearing. [9]
The reception of Donovan Pasha convinced me beyond peradventure, that the step I took in enlarging my field of work was as wise in relation to my art as in its effect upon my mind, temperament and faculty for writing. [11]
Had he been convinced of the contrary, he would have sacrificed everything he possessed in order, by lavish offerings, to propitiate the immortals in behalf of her to whom he had devoted his life and every faculty of his being. [10]
The faculty don't consider it a healthy custom, I believe, Mr Richard, to carry one's handkerchief in one's hat--I have heard that it keeps the head too warm--but in every other point of view, its being there, is extremely satisfactory--extremely so. [12]
Gradually Ditmar became conscious of this detachment, this new evidence of an extraordinary faculty of escaping him that seemed unimpaired. [9]
Like most successful citizens of his type, he possessed in a high degree the faculty of creating sympathy, of compelling others to accept --temporarily, at least--his point of view. [9]
Then that man came out with a good, honest, eloquent compliment that made the Faculty blush. [5]
He had always been the great story-teller of the West, and he used and cultivated this faculty to relieve the weight of the load he bore. [7]
If Cooper had been an observer his inventive faculty would have worked better; not more interestingly, but more rationally, more plausibly. [5]
It is absurd because, there being no reasoning faculty--that is to say, no faculty of personal command--in a pair of togs, personal responsibility for the acts of the tongs is wholly absent from the tongs; and, therefore, responsibility being absent, punishment cannot ensue. [5]
The Faculty must be notified by telephone to prepare. [5]
Last of all arrived the president and faculty of Sonora University and offered me the post of Professor of Moral Culture and the Dogmatic Humanities; which I accepted gratefully, and entered at once upon my duties. [5]
If there were another faculty that equalled or transcended reason, it seems to me it would be a very dangerous thing for the world's progress. [9]
There is not an art, not a science, not a faculty that is not thought out, constructed, and practised by us. [10]
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope-tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. [5]
He had merely acquired the faculty of appraisal, although this does not mean that he was incapable of falling in love. [9]
The leader had a voice like the pleasant droning of a bag-pipe, and the faculty of emitting a continuous note like that instrument, without stopping to breathe. [4]
He had cultivated a habit of deliberation which saved his digestion and preserved his mental poise; and he had a faculty for doing the right thing at the right time. [11]
This case offers a good illustration how persistent may be the transmission of an absolutely useless faculty, probably derived from our remote semi-human progenitors; since many monkeys have, and frequently use the power, of largely moving their scalps up and down. [1]
Indeed, it is a Frankenstein itself; a Frankenstein with the original infirmity supplemented by a new one; a Frankenstein with the reasoning faculty wanting. [5]
Then he showed a faculty for temper and profanity that stunned me. [11]
Brains enough for a cabinet minister, and fit out a college faculty with what was left over. [6]

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