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Sentences starting with powerful

Powerful arms, with the swelling muscles of an athlete, were extended from his sleeveless robe towards the beloved Queen. [10]
Powerful telescopes are numerous in Chamonix. [5]
Powerful as man is, and pushing, he cannot wholly vulgarize them. [4]
Powerful as the empire was, it was never free from tribal insurrection and internal troubles. [4]
Powerful help must be found somewhere, or he must relinquish his inheritance and remain under the imputation of being an impostor besides. [5]

Sentences ending with powerful

He went up to the desk, behind which, stood a burly, red-complexioned man who greeted him effusively, yet with the air of respect accorded the powerful. [9]
The scent of the flower is very sweet, but you want distance on it, because it is so powerful. [5]
Our gods are shown by their works to be the strongest, the most powerful. [5]
I will not send even my foe to death without a hearing, especially at this time, which teaches me what it is to await the verdict of one who is more powerful. [10]
In the pulpit Roscoe was almost powerful. [11]
The nation has passed its perils, and it is free, prosperous, and powerful. [7]
In the overstrain of his nervous system the illusion was powerful. [11]
Hitherto the Greeks in Egypt have lived like brothers; each has been ready to offer himself for the good of all, and all for each, and it is just this unity that has made us, and must keep us, powerful. [10]
Mr. Flint was, in a sense, a Bismarck, but he was not as yet all powerful. [9]
When he met her again in Voronezh the impression she made on him was not merely pleasing but powerful. [2]

Short sentences using powerful

Fresh angels are powerful neat. [5]
The embodiment of powerful life! [10]
They are a powerful fish. [4]
That's a powerful horse. [9]
It was powerful, Fred. [12]

Sentences containing powerful two or more times

He blindly felt working in the man before him a powerful mind, more powerful because it faced the truth unflinchingly; but he knew that this did not mean calm acceptance of the consequences. [11]
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]
For, powerful as the Baron was, Bigot the Intendant was powerful also, and fought the thing with all his might. [11]
Not only powerful nations shall cease to exploit little nations, but powerful individuals shall cease to exploit their fellow men. [9]
Well, old man, I am powerful glad to hear from you and shall be powerful glad to see you and Harmony. [5]
No one had ever seen O'Ryan angry; and now that the demon of rage was on him, directed by a will suddenly grown to its full height, they saw not only a powerful character in a powerful melodrama, but a man of wild force. [11]
Besides, Dion had even taken her part against his own powerful uncle, and perhaps by his deed drawn upon himself the hostility of his enemy's brother, Alexas, Antony's powerful favourite. [10]
Debilitated, demoralised, how could he, even if he wished, struggle against this powerful confederate, as powerful in will as in body? [11]

More example sentences with the word powerful in them

I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
This broken and worthless thing, it is true, was powerful to justify her in the opinions of her judges and her enemies; with this in her hand she would easily confute her accusers. [10]
Nothing in the world could have made the impulse which moved me more powerful, more masterful, more thoroughly irresistible. [5]
The opportunity for working a miracle is not given to one of us every day, and happily for me, you yourself bring a powerful coadjutor to help me. [10]
But if the word can do everything, it will make you lord of the castle and a powerful count. [10]
His purse overflowed with zechins; but with the red gold, Art withdrew from him her powerful ally, necessity, the pressing need of gaining a livelihood by the exertion of his own strength. [10]
And this announcement, with which the president mingled his praises of the venerable Horapollo, had a powerful effect. [10]
The powerful hand with which his servant had promptly controlled the fiery spirit of the animals excited his approbation, and seemed to inspire him to put a clog boldly on the wheels of speeding fate. [10]
Rumour reported that, with the huge sword he wielded, he had dealt from his powerful charger blows as terrible as those inflicted five-and-twenty years before when, not far from the same spot, he struck Archelaus on the head. [10]
A young man with an unusually tall and powerful figure was standing in this yard, gazing up at a window in the second story. [10]
This rider, beneath whose weight the powerful steed trembled and panted, wore a vesture of scarlet and white, thickly embroidered with eagles and falcons in silver. [10]
They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
He saw the whole danger, and drew up his powerful form as if to prove whether it were an equal match for such a foe. [10]
But even one who loved him could not carry through his incompleted work against the assaults of his enemies, who were powerful, watchful, astute, and merciless; who had a greed which set money higher than all else in the world. [11]
He had already whispered this intention to Myrtilus, when he heard Daphne's companion say to Thyone, "Philotas will accompany us, and on this voyage they will plight their troth if Aphrodite's powerful son accepts my sacrifice. [10]
And all the while the river flowing through the endless prairies, high-banked, ennobled by living woods, lipped with green, kept surging in her ears, inviting her, alluring her--alluring her with a force too deep and powerful for weak human nature to bear for long. [11]
Herring's colored portrait, which I have always kept, shows him as a great, powerful chestnut horse, well deserving the name of "bullock," which one of the jockeys applied to him. [6]
Should she reject what the most powerful and wealthy sovereign in the world offered with contemptible parsimony? [10]
She knew, too, what a powerful influence the bright moonlight sometimes exerted upon her while she slept, and cast another glance at the closely curtained window before she went to her own bed. [10]
Thirty powerful rowers were urging the long, narrow boat toward them. [10]
Quite apart from wealth or position, personality plays a part more powerful than all else in the eyes of every woman who has a soul which has substance enough to exist at all. [11]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
That her lover was the most powerful sovereign on earth, and she could appeal to him if she needed help, did not enter her mind. [10]
Something more powerful was required to stir him. [10]
I think it was powerful smart. [5]
He said there was no law to regulate this thing, except that most powerful of all laws, custom. [5]
The district, too, was largely rural, and therefore anti-consolidation, and the inability of the Worthington forces to get their bill through had made it apparent that Jethro Bass was as powerful as ever. [9]
In soul he was bitter; in body he was healthy, powerful, and sane. [11]
Her imagination, which was a spirit more sombre than sunny--more powerful than sportive--found in such traits material whence it wrought creations like Heathcliff, like Earnshaw, like Catherine. [14]
To Eglington it was a relief that there was one human being--he thought there was only one--who read him through and through; and that knowledge was in itself as powerful an influence as was the secret between David and Hylda. [11]
And indeed it was a noble and joyful sight as they stood there, the old man and the young one, both of powerful and stalwart build, both grown strong in wind and weather, and true and trustworthy men. [10]
Suddenly a powerful voice rang out. [11]
You are the vile scum of the earth,"--he determined to take a strong line now, since he had made a powerful impression on the creature before him--"and you will do what the Baas likes, not what you like. [11]
He still speaks very often to Lucilius and his other friends of his great plans of forming a powerful empire in the East, with Alexandria as its principal city. [10]
It is a very narrow and unjust view of the practice of medicine, to suppose it to consist altogether in the use of powerful drugs, or of drugs of any kind. [6]
He knew the very best background for a poem of deep and refined sentiment and pathetic melancholy was one where great and satisfying merriment had prepared the spirit for the powerful contrast. [5]
The Mukaukas' barge, urged forward by powerful rowers, made its way smoothly down the river. [10]
Now the drain upon the resources of the system produced in such a case must be at its minimum, for the subject is a powerful man, in the prime of life, and in admirable condition. [3]
She had looked up to him as to a mountain peak whose jagged summit touched the sky when her father and others had related his knightly deeds, his victories over the most powerful foes, and his peerless statesmanship. [10]
When we woke up next morning we was feeling a little cheerfuller, and had had a most powerful good sleep, because sand is the comfortablest bed there is, and I don't see why people that can afford it don't have it more. [5]
It had burned up everything in her except one thought, one powerful motive. [11]
Though not wholly understood, though opposed by a powerful minority of our citizens, it stirred the consciousness of a national mission to which our people are invariably ready to respond. [9]
Frontenac, proud, impatient, tyrannical, was the one man in New France who had a powerful idea of the future of the country, and who loved her and his king by the law of a loyal nature. [11]
A day or two following the return to Hartford, Clemens received a letter from General Grant, in which he wrote: "Li Hung Chang is the most powerful and most influential Chinaman in his country. [5]
The British army, twenty-five thousand strong, admirably equipped, and supported by a powerful naval force, threatened to envelop our poor force, and finish the war in a stroke. [4]
His trousers were tucked into his boots, and his gnarled and powerful hands, ingrained with dirt, clutched the arms of the seat as he leaned forward. [9]
The novelty of Truth endowed her with special strength, but now we need much more powerful methods. [2]
These stiltwalkers were tools in the hands of the King's foes, who were growing more powerful every day. [11]
Many changes now took place, and the most powerful man in the kingdom filled Pharaoh with hatred of the Hebrews and their leader, Mesu, whom he and the queen had hitherto protected and feared. [10]
His instincts were too powerful to let him work quietly in the common round of school and college training. [6]
Homesickness had obtained too powerful a hold upon him. [10]
The body was too healthy to belong to a fanatic, too powerful to be that of a dreamer alone, too firm for other than a man of action. [11]
No one has told me so; but if he seeks in Spain the rest for which he longs, the thought of Geronimo--I am sure of that--is not the least powerful cause which draws him thither. [10]
The principal objection to the choice made by the powerful head of the government was that it had fallen on land owned by a private individual. [10]
After having yielded to some temptation we feel a sense of dissatisfaction, shame, repentance, or remorse, analogous to the feelings caused by other powerful instincts or desires, when left unsatisfied or baulked. [1]
Could he venture to remain here near his victim, or was it his duty to use his powerful arms in defence of his helpless companions? [10]
If the opportunity to make an attack arrived, a powerful fleet would be at her disposal, for which smaller ships also should now be built at Klysma, on the basis of the experience gained at Actium. [10]
He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. [2]
It's powerful fine to hear that," replied Lassiter, unsteadily. [13]
Unless you wish to blind yourself, your Eminence, you will admit that I have seen correctly the most powerful motives for this unequalled act. [10]
The majority seemed to be powerful men. [10]
At the same time his harsh, powerful voice bellowed out, "Hail, Caesar! [10]
From time to time her hands clenched, her brow furrowed, powerful waves of heat ran through her, the craving for action became so intense she could scarcely refrain from rising in her seat. [9]
And with that thought came also the conception of what a powerful antagonist he would be. [11]
He stirred, as though to shake off the net that he felt twisting round him, in the hands of the robust and powerful Dupont, on whom crime sat so lightly, who had flourished while he, Lygon, had gone lower and lower. [11]
And this one, though not so powerful, frightened me the more in his relentlessness. [9]
The dethroned king, though in reality some years the elder of the two, looked far fresher and more vigorous than the powerful monarch at his side. [10]
How different was this man's wooing--its impetuous, audacious, tender violence, with that quiet, powerful, almost sacred gravity of her Camisard lover! [11]
So powerful was this influence that the shrill Elder twice essayed to speak in protest, but was prevented by the wizened Elder Meacham. [11]
So powerful is this incentive that sometimes the wheel will continue to turn round when there is no grist to grind. [4]
The well-formed head, thick dark hair, and magnificent beard corresponded with the powerful figure. [10]
No, they hadn't, they said: and they shook their heads and said there was something powerful strange about it. [5]
To his mind there came on the instant the memory of a Rocky Mountain lioness that he had seen caged years before; lithe, watchful, nervously powerful, superior to its surroundings, yet mastered by those surroundings--the trick of a lock, not a trick of strength. [11]
I will form them after the models of the greatest, highest, and best, and also, when the subject permits, in powerful action in accordance with my own power, but always as real men from head to foot. [10]
Was that only the vitality of him--that awful light in the eyes--only the hard-dying life of a tremendously powerful brute? [13]
His understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed: fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady; spread it, and the armies of the powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. [5]
They are on the side of the powerful, and the best of them are all retained by rich men and corporations. [9]
Therefore Siptah and the powerful priest who was to proclaim him king were urged to the utmost haste. [10]
Nay, I accuse the noble Althea of withholding from Nike, in her personation, her special ornament--her swift, powerful wings. [10]
Trust me; before the Nile has risen again, a powerful army will have entered Egypt, to demand satisfaction for this murder. [10]
Besides, even if the naval battle were really lost, the powerful army, which is far superior to Octavianus's forces, still remains. [10]
Her husband was the most powerful Frank in all the Sultan's dominions, and it was a joy to her to see with what diligence he made search for the lost youth. [10]
We all know the metallic taste of articles written under this powerful stimulus. [6]
If this occurred, the marquise had found the most powerful tool for the deliverance of her son. [10]
So I use the lesser villain, and in truth the more powerful, for he stands higher at Versailles than any here. [11]
The water in the gutters used to be stagnant and slimy, and a potent disease-breeder; but the gutters are flushed now, two or three times a day, by powerful machinery; in many of the gutters the water never stands still, but has a steady current. [5]
The life of the great Henry, which I had celebrated in verse at Kottbus, became a reality to me here; and what a powerful influence a visit to the ancient cloister exerted on our young souls! [10]
Valmond was in the grasp of a giant, and, struggle as he might, he could not withstand the powerful arms of his assailant. [11]
I dreamed of the fall of the Caesars, and of a great Greek Empire risen from the ruins, powerful and brilliant under the special protection of the gods of Olympus; and each one of us must labor to bring about the realization of this dream. [10]
As Martina opened the door of the sitting room a loud conversation in men's voices became audible, and with the deep, resonant tones of the syndic Barbara recognised the higher, less powerful ones of the man whom she was seeking. [10]
Gradually, out of the chaotic melee in which these titans were engaged had emerged one group more powerful than the rest and more respectable, whose leader was the Personality to whom I have before referred. [9]
He had entered the cella of the sanctuary with the expectation of finding a peculiar, probably a powerful work, but one repugnant to his taste, and left it fairly overpowered by the beauty of this noble work of art. [10]
He was not that powerful virile animal of the day when he caught Al'mah in his arms and carried her off the stage at Covent Garden. [11]
And as for that poor fellow, he is a powerful creature, an honest one too; I would stake my ten fingers on it! [10]
Well, thinks I, that looks powerful bad for Tom, and I'll dig out for the island right off. [5]
It galled him that Hylda should take so powerful an interest in David's work in Egypt; and he knew now that she had always done so. [11]
Have you considered that Benjamin, the most implacable and most powerful hater among the Jacobites, will pursue you as his mortal foe with all the fearful means at his command? [10]
He is so terribly strong, and if he drew his sword in anger----" "He dealt his foe one powerful thrust," replied the imperial magistrate with an expressive gesture. [10]
On landing at Teos, I heard that you were king no longer, that the mighty Cyrus, the father of yonder beautiful youth, had conquered the powerful province of Lydia in a few weeks, and reduced the richest of kings to beggary. [10]
I am not sure but the south is the most powerful of the winds, because of its sweet persuasiveness. [4]

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