Use influences in a sentence
Sentences ending with influences
- Phelps was, however, unsophisticated in his until the advent of strangers into his life, who brought in literature and various other disturbing influences. [4]
- Life, we are told, is full of incompletion, of broken destinies, of failures, of romances that begin but do not end, of ambitions and purposes frustrated, of love crossed, of unhappy issues, or a resultless play of influences. [4]
- If they happen to cut these at right angles, of course they are beyond the reach of common influences. [6]
- 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]
- So soon as they reached Stephanus' cave, both turned their backs on Paulus with conspicuously marked intention; nay the acolyte signed his brow with the cross, as if he thought it necessary to protect himself against evil influences. [10]
- It is granted that the disease may be produced and variously modified by many causes besides contagion, and more especially by epidemic and endemic influences. [3]
- But it is remarkable upon how little it can exist, can even thrive and become strong, and develop a power of resistance to hostile influences. [4]
- Both reform and progress come from exterior influences. [4]
- Emerson's disciples were never accused of falling into the more perilous snares of antinomianism, but he himself distinctly recognizes the danger of it, and the counterbalancing effect of household life, with its curtain lectures and other benign influences. [6]
- It is so much simpler to consign a soul to perdition, or say masses, for money, to save it, than to take the blame on ourselves for letting it grow up in neglect and run to ruin for want of humanizing influences! [6]
Short sentences using influences
- International influences are too strong. [11]
- The property influences his mind. [7]
- Never amenable to good influences. [6]
Sentences containing influences two or more times
- By your doctrine, it is simplicity itself: outside influences moved your interior Master to give the order; stronger outside influences deterred him. [5]
More example sentences with the word influences in them
- Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
- In Turkey he would have produced something--something up to the highest limit of Turkish influences, associations, and training. [5]
- In France he would have produced something better--something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. [5]
- A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
- How beautiful the world is to an invalid, whose senses are all clarified, who has been so near the world of spirits that she is sensitive to the finest influences, and whose frame responds with a thrill to the subtlest ministrations of soothing nature. [5]
- Everything in the world is accomplished by influences which train and educate. [5]
- She represented a whole set of new and undetermined values for which he had no precedents, and unlike every woman he had known--including his wife--she had an integrity of her own, seemingly beyond the reach of all influences economic and social. [9]
- An old man who shrinks into himself falls into ways that become as positive and as much beyond the reach of outside influences as if they were governed by clock-work. [6]
- There are those who prefer a warm bath to a brisk walk in the inspiring air, where ten thousand keen influences minister to the sense of beauty and run along the excited nerves. [4]
- 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]
- He succeeded, and was radiant under the sweet influences of her pleased face and her seductively worded acknowledgements with gratification. [5]
- Although the King was hungry and chilly, he was also so tired and so drowsy that these latter influences soon began to get the advantage of the former, and he presently dozed off into a state of semi-consciousness. [5]
- Another said there was a vast fortune waiting for the genius who should invent a compass that would not be affected by the local influences of an iron ship. [5]
- Oh, a million unnoticed influences--for good or bad: influences which work without rest during every waking moment of a man's life, from cradle to grave. [5]
- Under these influences transmitted to, or at least shared by, the medical profession, the old question between "Nature," so called, and "Art," or professional tradition, has reappeared with new interest. [3]
- It is akin to those influences a friend of mine has described, you may remember, as coming from certain voices. [6]
- To be able to struggle and conquer, she must not withdraw from life and its influences, which, if she did not spare herself, promised to transform her into the resolute woman she desired to become. [10]
- Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. [7]
- Something warped and thwarted the emotion which would have been love in another, no doubt; but that such an emotion was striving with her against all malign influences which interfered with it the old woman had a perfect certainty in her own mind. [6]
- What do I think determines the set of phrases a man gets?--Well, I should say a set of influences something like these:---1st. [6]
- Emerson follows out the train of influences which added themselves to the impulse given by Mr. Everett. [6]
- Can I bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? [3]
- The position of the stars, however, had been so unfavourable that the more deeply Cleopatra entered into these matters, the less easy he found it to urge the mitigating influences of distant planets, which he had at first pointed out. [10]
- I was resisting the soft influences of the climate as well as I could, and endeavoring to overcome the desire to be indolent and happy. [5]
- What influences baffled the Queen's wish certainly have not remained hidden from you here. [10]
- It belonged in the list of softening, sensuous influences peculiar to this home of Eastern luxury. [5]
- The thought of the goblet and its evil influences had by no means passed from her memory with the destruction of the vessel caused by one of those outbursts of passion to which, in these days of disaster, she yielded more frequently than usual. [10]
- By the Constitution, the executive may recommend measures which he may think proper, and he may veto those he thinks improper, and it is supposed that he may add to these certain indirect influences to affect the action of Congress. [7]
- He notices that the English character is losing its insularity, is more accessible to foreign influences, and is adopting foreign, especially French, modes of living. [4]
- I only mean that those influences levied a tax of a considerable per cent. [7]
- I think also that there are special influences which work in the brood lake ferments, and I have a suspicion that some of those curious old stories I cited may have more recent parallels. [6]
- It was like that of some strong fate, superior to all influences of sorrow, shame, or death. [11]
- They both experienced that most seductive of all influences, a secret knowledge and a pact of mutual silence and purpose. [11]
- I am convinced that influences are at work--" He broke off with a catch in his throat. [9]
- I was sure that I had a battery in my head, for I know my brain works like one; but I did not know how many centres of energy there are, and how they are played upon by all sorts of influences, external and internal. [6]
- The very fact that her husband always gave himself up heart and soul to the influences of the hour--though she was glad that he should enjoy this good fortune to the utmost--made her look beyond the present into the future. [10]
- He remembered gladly that he had contended for conceptions of social miseries according to surrounding influences of growth and situation. [11]
- The meadows were sweet with the newly cut grass, the wind softly blew down the river, large white clouds sailed high overhead and cast shadows on the changing water; but to all these gentle influences the fish were insensible, and sulked in their cool retreats. [4]
- We propose to submit him to influences that will change that habit. [4]
- Its grimy, narrow streets, unlovely houses, with shut windows, summer though it was, and no softening influences anywhere, save here and there a box of sickly geraniums in the windows, all struck his mind in a way they had never done before. [11]
- The influences of Sorrento are not so dangerous, but are almost as marked. [4]
- Or, as I sometimes think, would it not be a new and worse chagrin to become acquainted with the extreme deadness of our community to spiritual influences of the higher kind? [6]
- Last of all she wanted to see Adrian in the surroundings and influences where his days had been constantly spent during the past three years. [11]
- As to Evelyn, she trusted to various influences she could bring to bear. [4]
- But I cannot say whether it is a subtle fascination, linked with these mythic and moral influences, or only the physical loveliness of this promontory, that lures travelers hither, and detains them on flowery meads. [4]
- He delighted to roam about the garden, and stroll among the trees, and to lie on the green grass and luxuriate in all the sweet influences of summer. [4]
- Other influences have retarded his elevation and the development of proper character, and most important means have been neglected. [4]
- It contained a request that he would visit Myrtle Hazard, who seemed to be in a very excitable and impressible condition, and who might perhaps be easily brought under those influences which she had resisted from her early years, through inborn perversity of character. [6]
- The world always reckons with these radical influences that go to make up a family. [4]
- The music he played was all his own, was instinctively translated from all other influences into that which they who listened to him could understand. [11]
- He has not played such a role for England and its neighbors as Bismarck has played for Germany and the Continent, but he has been one of the most powerful influences in molding English action. [4]
- But mainly we owe the large license of speech we enjoy to those influences and privileges common to us all as self-governing Americans. [3]
- But there are other special American influences which we are bound to take cognizance of. [3]
- This show, with other influences, had conquered Pango Wango. [11]
- This happened so often, that Mr Swiveller by degrees began to feel strange influences creeping over him--horrible desires to annihilate this Sally Brass--mysterious promptings to knock her head-dress off and try how she looked without it. [12]
- The Senator took off his hat and seemed to open his soul to the sweet influences of the morning. [5]
- The deep instincts of womanhood were striving to grope their way to the surface of her being through all the alien influences which overlaid them. [6]
- By the magic of the new and nobler influences the sterile spaces were transformed into wooded parks, the merry electric car replaced the melancholy 'bus, smooth concrete the tempestuous plank sidewalk, the macadamised road the primitive corduroy, et cetera. [5]
- The depressing influences of the insurrection have been specially felt in the operations of the Patent and General Land Offices. [7]
- A fair examination of history has served to authorize a belief that the past actions and influences of the United States were generally regarded as having been beneficial toward mankind. [7]
- A man is never anything but what his outside influences have made him. [5]
- But these lesser nervous centres are to a large extent dominated by influences transmitted from certain groups of nerve-cells in the brain and its immediate dependencies. [6]
- There is no more impressive and revealing moment with man or woman than when you stand in a room empty of their actual presence, but having, in every inch of it, the pervasive influences of the absent personality. [11]
- He was once more beside the woman he loved, and all the influences of summer and the very spirit of this resort were in his favor. [4]
- But when I look into him I seem to understand him,--that is, he always appears to me consistent with himself, and I can always gather from him very salutary influences for my own way of feeling and acting. [6]
- Now, it has long been noticed that there is something in the influences, climatic or other, here prevailing, which predisposes to morbid religious excitement. [6]
- Not always,--not always; let us not be cynical in our judgments, but common human nature, we may safely say, is subject to those secondary vibrations under the most solemn and soul-subduing influences. [6]
- It is at least respectful to say that the influences of home life are sweet. [5]
- That influences many ladies, of course. [11]
- A want of judgment in this matter has sent many a young person to Bedlam, whose nature would have opened kindly enough if it had only been trusted to the sweet influences of morning sunshine. [6]
- The whole effect is that of vegetable luxuriance and solidity, as it were a tropical luxuriance, condensed and hardened by northern influences. [4]
- And yet it is easy to underestimate the influences that, unconsciously to him, were expanding his mind and nursing in him heroic purposes. [4]
- Surrounded by these influences, they walked on pleasantly enough. [12]
- Without the outside influences, neither of these impulses could ever have been born, since a person's brain is incapable or originating an idea within itself. [5]
- The social religious influences of the first part of the century must not be forgotten. [6]
- Lives perhaps were in the balance, but she was a woman, and who could tell what slight influences might turn the scale! [11]
- And he laughed in his sleeve, and soothed away those dangerous influences of the magician. [11]
- I am sure I couldn't resist the softening influences of hospitality. [6]
- It is his human environment which influences his mind and his feelings, furnishes him his ideals, and sets him on his road and keeps him in it. [5]
- The influences about him create his preferences, his aversions, his politics, his tastes, his morals, his religion. [5]
- He does not hesitate to attribute the disease from which they suffered to those depressing moral influences to which they were subjected. [6]
- Should he keep her apart, or shut her up, for fear of risk to others, and so lose every chance of restoring her mind to its healthy tone by kindly influences and intercourse with wholesome natures? [6]
- She influences him, he admires her--which is better than mere love. [11]
- No doubt you have heard a great deal about Robert Fulton and the influences that have grown from his invention, but the little steamboat is suffering neglect. [5]
- He appears to have fallen into influences and among a set of people foreign to me. [4]
- Meantime two influences had been working well for Marget. [5]
- He had recently for the first time been at once master of himself and in free communion with all the planetary influences above, beneath, around him. [6]
- Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes were sparkling,--the influences to which he had trusted had not been thrown away upon her. [6]
- He is a favourite with Madame Cournal, who influences Bigot most, and one day we may see the boon companions at each other's throats; and if either falls, I hope it maybe Bigot, for Monsieur Doltaire is, at least, no robber. [11]
- It is no easy matter to tell what are the influences, what the circumstances, which determine the success of a particular writer or of a particular work. [4]
- Who among us does not miss the gentle ministrations, the softening influences, the humble piety of Lucretia Borgia? [5]
- To what affluence does a woman (to take an instance, thank Heaven, which is common) grow, with favoring circumstances, under the stimulus of the richest social and intellectual influences! [4]
- I am not disposed to deny the occasional injurious effect of the materializing influences to which the physician is subjected. [3]
- If war is declared now, the Emperor Charles will gain the victory; and if he does not wish to withdraw in earnest from Romish influences, who can tell what will then await us Protestants? [10]
- But when the day is done, even the most unimpressible must yield to the dreamy influences of this tranquil starlight. [5]
- Time, the great consoler, helped these influences, and he gradually fell into more easy and less dangerous habits of life. [6]
- These qualities--and the capacities growing out of them by the nurturing influences of training, observation, and experience seem to be clearly indicated by the character of her career and its achievements. [5]
- All this we cannot help; but we can make the best of these influences, such as they are. [6]
- Being spiritual, it cannot be affected by physical influences? [5]
- With character compacted by the rigid Puritan discipline of more than two centuries, they had retained its strength and purity and thrown off its narrowness, and were now blossoming under the generous modern influences. [5]
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