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Sentences starting with power

Power was there, power with infinite gentleness. [11]
Power was my passion--power, not the Queen. [11]
Power to think of some things was taken from her. [13]
Power flowed out of his right hand from an inexhaustible reservoir which he had had the sagacity to tap, and men leaped into action at his touch. [9]
Power had been given to her, the power of great riches--the three millions had been really four--and everything and everybody, almost, was deferential towards her. [11]
Power had suddenly flowed back into her, and with it an exhilarating self-command. [9]
Power spoke in every motion. [11]
Power is the collective will of the people transferred, by expressed or tacit consent, to their chosen rulers. [2]
Power is the collective will of the people transferred to one person. [2]
Power you have, but it will wither in your grasp. [11]

Sentences ending with power

It lies in your power. [10]
I am still young, and I have the power! [10]
I spoke to you of a secret that will put Paaker into our power. [10]
No punishment for you but this lies in my power. [10]
But when he yielded to the impulse to read Wolff's letter again he felt like a dethroned prince whom some stranger, ignorant of his misfortune, praises for his mighty power. [10]
Spite of the wrong he had done her, how gladly, had she not been lost to art, she would now have tried upon him its elevating, consoling power! [10]
It has a wonderful transforming power. [4]
He whose easily won heart and susceptible fancy had urged him from one commonplace love to another had been bound by the Queen with chains of indestructible and supernatural power. [10]
To intoxicate themselves with wine, the gift of the god to whom they were paying homage, was not only permitted, but commanded, and the juice of the grape proved its all-equalizing power. [10]
There he is, with the whiskers and the tall hat and the comfortable face, which wears already a look of gubernatorial dignity and power. [9]

Short sentences using power

Power, indeed, is yours. [10]
You have power, you say. [11]
The Admiral's power was broken. [5]
More power to them. [9]
The power of the will. [6]
He certainly possessed the power. [10]
This power exceeds the Pope's. [5]
Was it his power? [9]
Haven't they the power? [9]
Was ever such power? [11]

Sentences containing power two or more times

She was very woman, eager for the power which she had lost, and power was hard to get--by what devious ways had she travelled to find it! [11]
Joan of Arc was the only power in France that the English did not despise, the only power in France that they considered formidable. [5]
Now the school visitors must all be ecclesiastics; and although their power is not to be dreaded in the cities, where teachers, like other citizens, are apt to be liberal, it gives them immense power in the rural districts. [4]
He had been under the coercive power of a demon; a mysterious spell had forced him--" "The mightiest power, love," interrupted Iras with enthusiastic warmth--"a love as great and overmastering as ever subjugated the soul of man. [10]
That he had to some degree rough power, of course, but power; and she loved power, force. [11]
They found in themselves the same power that the Master found in Himself, and they used it as He had used His power. [5]
That which makes the charm and power of woman, that for which she is created, is as distinctly feminine as that which makes the charm and power of men is masculine. [4]
One historian says that an event was produced by Napoleon's power, another that it was produced by Alexander's, a third that it was due to the power of some other person. [2]
In America we succeeded in eliminating hereditary power, in obtaining a large measure of political liberty, only to see the rise of an economic power, and the consequent loss of economic liberty. [9]
If all the States save one should assert the power to drive that one out of the Union, it is presumed the whole class of seceder politicians would at once deny the power and denounce the act as the greatest outrage upon State rights. [7]

More example sentences with the word power in them

Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
The real world, your world, England, Europe, would have no more use for all your skill and knowledge and power, because there would be a woman in the way. [11]
It is in your power to spoil my chance. [10]
It lies in your power to comfort a sad and loving heart, and to give it one happy moment before death. [10]
Free to preach your convictions, unfettered, you will have a power over people that will be tremendous. [9]
He also was young, but nothing about him suggested power, only self-indulgence. [11]
I have warned you, sir, and warn you again of the consequences of your meditated crime, and I give you my word I will do all in my power to frustrate it. [9]
I say to you, at the risk of the accusation of conceit, that I believed myself to have a power in the pulpit if I could only discover the truth. [9]
And I believe you will come back, if it is in human power to do so. [11]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magicians, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh. [5]
No doubt, as you say, where power is supreme, one can do as one likes and suffer no injury; but we poor magicians are not so situated. [5]
The stars, as you know, proclaim to you, as to me, that a higher power has joined us as light and warmth are joined. [10]
I know that you hold some power over my friend. [11]
I know that you have neither the power nor the will to do it. [5]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. [5]
And yet, and yet!--If she had really had the power to bind calamity in the clouds, to turn the tide back into its channel, she would not have done so! [10]
They were not yet under control, but she felt them, and in so far as she had power to think, she used them. [11]
What did not yet threaten Barine as serious danger Iras had the power to transform into grave peril. [10]
Faithful and sincere, yet loving power, curious and adventurous, she must needs, without intention, without purpose, stray into perilous paths. [11]
He is not yet in thy power, however, and I advise thee to remember, that though thou mayst be clever for an Egyptian, Phanes is a clever Greek. [10]
The vineyard, the yellow stubble; and the river rushing on and on with tranquil power, and the slow panting of the steamboat. [9]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
Is my father wrong when he says that it is a proud thing to belong to the mightiest realm on earth, before whose power barbarians tremble; a great thing to feel and call yourself a Roman citizen? [10]
I have neither written nor made a speech on that subject, because that was their business, not mine, and if I had a wish on the subject, I had not the power to introduce it, or make it effective. [7]
Really, what you would push him to do would take from him his entire power to serve you. [7]
To offer resistance would have been madness, for even Hermon perceived, by the loud clanking of weapons around them, the greatly superior power of the enemy, and they were acting by the orders of the King. [10]
Very likely nothing would come of all this espionage; but, at any rate, the first thing to be done with a man you want to have in your power is to learn his habits. [6]
Plotinus was a worthy man, and he had been highly indignant at these instructions; it was not in his power to contravene them; but at any rate he had led the procession in person, and had not forbidden John's accompanying him. [10]
It was the world in a man--personality, knowledge of life, the culture of the thousand things which make up civilization: it was personality got from life and power in contest with the ordered world. [11]
We see the workman and the tools, but the skill that guides the work and the power that performs it are as invisible as ever. [3]
And those spoken words, in their grim note to his ear, as well as contents to his mind, told Venters that he was all but drifting on a current which he had not power nor wish to stem. [13]
Then came these words, but hardly audible: "And in a thousand years the English power in France will not rise up from that blow. [5]
But speak in words of living power, --They fall like drops of scalding rain That plashed before the burning shower Swept o'er the cities of the plain! [6]
I use this word, not to be found in my dictionaries, as expressing the brain-cell power corresponding to electricity. [6]
But not a word of the sovereign had escaped her, and, though she still lacked the power of speech, she found courage to smile and shake her head in denial. [10]
The mission of woman, about which we are pretty weary of hearing, is not accomplished by any means in her years of vernal bloom and loveliness; she has equal power to bless and sweeten life in the autumn of her pilgrimage. [4]
And now my wits came back to me, my purposes, the power to act, which for a couple of hours had seemed to be in abeyance. [11]
May my tongue wither before I--You can, of course--It is in your power to take my life! [10]
Learning goes usually with uprightness, broad views, and humanity; so the learned voters, possessing the balance of power, became the vigilant and efficient protectors of the great lower rank of society. [5]
Asarja and Michael, with their sons, who grudged the power of Moses and Aaron, had even gone from one to another to try to persuade them, ere departing, to summon the elders again and charge then to enter into fresh negotiations with the Egyptians. [10]
As for Barbara, with the subtle power of presentiment of a loving heart she felt that his passion was waning, and tortured her mobile intellect to discover the right cause. [10]
Sunset came, bringing with the end of her labor a patient calmness and power to wait that had not been hers earlier in the day. [13]
He differed, however, with that gentleman in politics, while in this respect he agreed with the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Botts], whom he wished to oblige whenever it was in his power. [7]
She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
Demetrius watched it with less anxiety; he knew that his Arabs were far superior to the Egyptian breed in staying power, and they also had the advantage of having had a longer rest. [10]
Where Conspicuousness carries with it a Power which, by the light of our own observation and experience, we are able to measure and comprehend, I think our envy of the possessor is as deep and as passionate as is that of any other nation. [5]
By his influence with Ismail he had even more power at last than the Chief Eunuch or the valet-de-chambre, before whom the highest officials bowed low. [11]
Archibius's thoughts lingered with his beloved Queen, and his vivid power of imagination conjured before his mind everything which could distress her. [10]
Like lightning, and with cold fury in his eyes, Foyle caught the tall cattleman by the forearm, and, with a swift, dexterous twist, had the fellow in his power. [11]
He had quarrelled with Bigot, and had conquered, but at great cost; for Bigot had such power, and the Governor had trouble enough to care for himself against Bigot, though he was Beaugard's friend. [11]
She smiled as, with an access of tenderness, in spite of his experience and power she suddenly felt years older than Ditmar. [9]
They clenched there with a power like that of three men; for this was the kind of grip which, far away in the country of the Yang-tse-kiang, Li Choo had learned in the days when he had made youth a thing to be remembered. [11]
Mamma is excused with a headache, but she has left me power of attorney to ask questions about our little venture. [4]
This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
He had spoken with a deep power, such as I knew he could use, and I did not wonder that she paled a little, even trembled before it. [11]
The wise abbot wished to avoid anything, that would cause excitement, during this time of rebellion against the power of the Church, but the magistrate claimed the right to commence proceedings against the doctor. [10]
He intended to win by force what was denied him, so long as the power belonged to him. [10]
We will uphold William with our fortunes and our lives for, as I have already said, we need a sun, that is, a monarch--but the cities think they have power to shine and wish to be admired as bright stars themselves. [10]
If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him. [7]
I reckon it will scarcely be in our power to visit Kentucky this year. [7]
Fear and sorrow will now be changed into happiness and power, and all the glories of the world. [10]
I have the will and the power too, to close the sluice gates against such a disaster. [10]
He looked concentrated will and power as he stood with his hands clasped behind him, his shoulders thrown back, his eyes alight with fire and determination. [11]
This was the wife of his dreams, the proud woman, with whom the Eletto desired to share power and grandeur. [10]
Seleukus and his wife have a great regard for Alexander, and will do for him all that lies in their power. [10]
The other light, whose power full well you know, E'en though in words I nor describe nor name, Alike for me and you its rays aye glow-- Maternal love, by day and night the same. [10]
The man on whose breast he saw Kasana lay her head was a prince, a person of high rank and great power, and the capricious beauty did not always repel the bold man, when his lips sought those for whose kiss Ephraim so ardently longed. [10]
Like Paul, of whom he spoke, he too was transformed, had come to his own, radiating a new power that seemed to shine in his face. [9]
The rabble of whom he had thought so scornfully, what a transformation seemed to have been wrought in them by the power of the Most High, since he had listened to old Eliab's tale! [10]
But the visitor who yields himself to the place will soon find his power of will departing. [4]
The proud woman, who was so cool in all the friendly relations of life, and who, as she felt was always watching her, was to her only a stranger who had her in her power. [10]
Happy are they who on this eventful night can wash their faces in those waters just as the cathedral bell tells midnight; for at that precise moment they have a beautifying power. [4]
The commanding generals, who have power to act on proceedings of courts-martial in such cases, are authorized in special cases to restore to duty deserters under sentence, when in their judgment the service will be thereby benefited. [7]
We'll show them who has the power here. [10]
Many a general who has fought a desperate and victorious fight after a long campaign, and amid all the anxieties and miseries of war, has failed to follow up his advantage, from a sudden lesion of the power for action in him. [11]
The old man's whispered exhortation to his young friend to spare the imperial master, to whom he was so deeply indebted, a fresh sorrow, restored to the infuriated young knight his power of self-control. [10]
Erasmus listened silently while Wolf eagerly made these statements; but when the latter closed with the declaration that the evangelical faith would never attain the same power of elevating hearts, he interrupted the knight with the exclamation, "We shall have to wait for that! [10]
Who stands firm while others tremble lest their power pass to-morrow? [11]
Would the resentment which, since the day before, had again filled her soul have permitted her to prevent it had she possessed the power? [10]
New entertainments, in which the Queen commanded her to participate, awaited her in Pithom, but pleasure at the return of her famous son appeared to double her power of endurance. [10]
The charm by which she ensnares hearts is indescribable, and the iron power of her intellect! [10]
Adams's administration, at which point he considers the executive influence as withdrawn from opposition, and added to the support of the power. [7]
First the subject, which must of itself have driving power, then the main character, which becomes a law working out its own destiny; and the subject in my own work has always been translatable into a phrase. [11]
The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
The common distress, which afflicted them and so many starving people, oppressed his soul with a thousand-fold greater power. [10]
But the time when you will yourself rend the bonds and find the divinity you have lost, will come, and then, with your mighty power once more free, you will outstrip most of us, and me also if I live to see it. [10]
We agree that when the States come in as States they have the right and the power to do as they please. [7]
You feel it when some mysterious power, without any will of your own, prompts you to some act, be it what it may. [10]
From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation. [6]
Whether primeval man, when he possessed but few arts, and those of the rudest kind, and when his power of language was extremely imperfect, would have deserved to be called man, must depend on the definition which we employ. [1]
And we know when a man has his power from a god by the fact that he does things which he could not do, as a man, with the mere powers of a man. [5]
What reverent and what worshiping looks they bent upon that dread, mysterious power, the Doctor! [5]
To his mind, what was the good of having riches and power, if you could not also have love, licence and the loot of the conqueror! [11]
I don't remember what the word was now, but I recognized the power of it. [5]
Thirty-four singers, and what power, what precision, and, moreover, the great charm of novelty! [10]
I cannot tell what power you hold over me, whether of life and death, or of wealth and poverty; but after talking to me of love, I should not have thought you would have wronged me by suggesting any meaner motive. [6]
It is strange what power the reiteration of an essentially poetical thought has upon one's feelings. [5]
Florette now knew what her son had experienced in life, what had moved his heart, his soul, and could not contradict him, when he told her that power was the highest prize of existence. [10]

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