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Sentences ending with powers

Even Joseph Goodman, who had a fine literary perception and a deep knowledge of men, intimately associated with Mark Twain as he was, received at this time no hint of his greater powers. [5]
No person, as was said long ago, could judge him, because his task was not merely difficult, but simply impracticable to human powers. [6]
We will now turn to the more intellectual emotions and faculties, which are very important, as forming the basis for the development of the higher mental powers. [1]
He went, and tried to hurry, but his legs refused to move and he knew he would not be in time to lock the door though he painfully strained all his powers. [2]
For Heaven's sake train him in something, so that he can handle himself, and have free and confident use of his powers. [4]
Philip had begun to see that the life around him had elements enough of the comic and the tragic to give full play to all his powers. [4]
For the first time I perceived, in examining the fruits of the labour of so many days and nights, the vast disproportion between the magnitude of the subject and my untrained powers. [10]
The invention of this plan overstrained the author that is plain, for he straightway shows failing powers. [5]
It is, I think, fortunate, and not at all discreditable, that our little vanity, which is reckoned among our weaknesses, is thus made to contribute to the activity of our nobler powers. [4]
By divine commission there were bishops, priests, and deacons in the new hierarchy, and it was through the Apostolic Succession that he, their rector, derived his sacerdotal powers. [9]

Sentences containing powers two or more times

That is to say, its powers are from Him, but the credit of the discovery of the powers and what they are for is due to an American lady. [5]
So much ridicule has been thrown upon the pretended powers of the minute doses that I shall only touch upon this point for the purpose of conveying, by illustrations, some shadow of ideas far transcending the powers of the imagination to realize. [3]

More example sentences with the word powers in them

When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered. [10]
In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
In one of your chapters I found this chance: "In our high Parisian existence, for instance, we find applied to arts and luxury, and to debauchery, all the powers and all the weaknesses of the French soul. [5]
Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. [6]
It took many years to train the as yet undisciplined powers into orderly obedience, and to bring the unarranged materials into the organic connection which was needed in the construction of a work that should endure. [6]
Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
Born old, one would, of course, inherit experience, so that wealth could be made to contribute to happiness, and each day, instead of lessening the natural powers and increasing infirmities, would bring new vigor and capacity of enjoyment. [4]
Yes, all the world knew it was going to be in reality a duel between Merlin and me, a measuring of his magic powers against mine. [5]
The greater the works which the traveller's eyes beheld, the more insignificant he felt, the more pitiful his own powers, his own skill appeared. [10]
It is hard work to make a speech when you have listened to compliments from the powers in authority. [5]
The education of woman and the development of her powers hold the greatest promise for the regeneration of society. [4]
The strong man, whose powers were doubled by his rage, struggled furiously to escape, but Joshua and his companion held him in an iron grasp. [10]
But every one who admits the principle of evolution, must see that the mental powers of the higher animals, which are the same in kind with those of man, though so different in degree, are capable of advancement. [1]
She had powers which had ever been the admiration of Guidon Hill. [11]
If these powers, which differ much in different animals, are capable of improvement, there seems no great improbability in more complex faculties, such as the higher forms of abstraction, and self- consciousness, etc., having been evolved through the development and combination of the simpler ones. [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]
Their extraordinary powers were, however, accounted for by the following explanation, which was accepted in the school as entirely satisfactory. [6]
Their unpractised powers were unable to follow the course of his thoughts. [10]
But new senses were suddenly born in her, new eyes were given to her mind, new powers for endurance to her soul. [11]
Most of them were personally known to Cleopatra who, to their mutual pleasure and advantage, had measured her intellectual powers with the most brilliant minds of their body. [10]
The walking powers were much impeded by the want of control over the right leg. [6]
Having myself a well-marked barytone voice of more than half an octave in compass, I sometimes add my vocal powers to her execution of "Thou, thou reign'st in this bosom. [6]
He knew so well what powers of intrigue had been used against him, by the embassy of Slavonia and those of other countries. [11]
For, of course, we cannot expect all of the powers to be in their right minds at one time. [5]
He had limitless ways and means and powers at his disposal for preparing and strengthening the case for the prosecution, and he used them all. [5]
But, as it was, their relations always remained somewhat formal, and Chase never felt quite at ease under a chief whom he could not understand, and whose character and powers he never learned to esteem at their true value. [7]
There, for instance, was Patience, the maiden aunt, his father's sister, the news-monger of the fireside, whose powers of ratiocination first gave Philip the Greek idea and method of reasoning to a point and arriving at truth by the process of exclusion. [4]
In fact, he was not thinking much about being good or being bad, but of trying his powers in a world which seemed to offer to him infinite opportunities. [4]
All the Mother-Church's vast powers are concentrated in that Board. [5]
I think these vast powers and capacities were born in her, and that she applied them by an intuition which could not err. [5]
Once he started up to fly, but he again heard the bewitching tones of her musical laugh, and mysterious powers detained him, forcing him to listen. [10]
She gave herself up for lost; but whatever fate might have in store for her, life lay open before him; he would have time to prove his splendid powers, and that he would do so, as she would have him do it, she felt certain. [10]
I am persistently undervalued, wronged, and imposed upon by mankind and the powers of the universe generally. [6]
She had been trying her powers of consolation on Miss Silence. [6]
There is a trinity--Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu--independent powers, apparently, though one cannot feel quite sure of that, because in one of the temples there is an image where an attempt has been made to concentrate the three in one person. [5]
Here we are told that governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. [7]
And I have told her about Annie's excellent house-keeping, also about the great Bacon conflict; (I told you it was a hundred to one that neither Livy nor the European powers had heard of that desolating struggle. [5]
It was reported to us that your powers could not attain unto their full strength until the morrow; but--" "Your Majesty thinks the report may have been a lie? [5]
Yet the wish to try his powers as a pedagogue never deserted him; and when, in 1812, the position of teacher in the Plamann Institute in Berlin was offered him, he accepted it. [10]
The Professor seems to think that man and the general powers of the universe are in partnership. [6]
He kindly motioned to them to keep silence, and asked what induced them to expect leisure time on that day, when, by the exertion of all their powers, they were to display their skill in the presence of their mistress and the Emperor. [10]
Hold me down to the earth, for I feel my powers a-working! [5]
Anubis had intended to remind Cleopatra of his refusal, and show her the great danger incurred by mortals who strove to use powers beyond their sphere. [10]
Besides, by appealing to his ambition, he could be induced to put forth all his powers, and, if his teachers aimed at what they studiously omitted, it would not be difficult to make a scholar of him. [10]
How she longed to fly into them, none but herself knew--to fly into them as into a refuge secure against the evil powers of the world. [9]
He was sick to death--not with illness alone, but with disappointment and broken hopes and a burden beyond the powers of any one man. [11]
It is impossible to begin a story which must of necessity tax the powers of belief of readers unacquainted with the class of facts to which its central point of interest belongs without some words in the nature of preparation. [6]
I have gone to a town with a sober literary essay in my pocket, and seen myself everywhere announced as the most desperate of buffos,--one who was obliged to restrain himself in the full exercise of his powers, from prudential considerations. [6]
Which of the three powers named by Great Britain as an arbiter shall be chosen by the United States? [7]
It is like this: everything is got ready, and at the appointed moment I, as the official head of the nation, publicly and solemnly proclaim its independence, and absolve it from allegiance to any and all other powers whatsoever. [5]
It is on this principle of economizing the powers of life that a very eminent American physician,--Dr. Weir Mitchell, a man of genius,--has founded his treatment of certain cases of nervous exhaustion. [6]
I can do this miracle; I shall do this miracle; yet I do not try to conceal from you that it is a miracle to tax the occult powers to the last strain. [5]
But I always think great physical powers of exertion and endurance ought to accompany such a step. [14]
Any one of these three conditions would stave off recognition by foreign powers, until we had ourselves abandoned the attempt to reduce the South to obedience. [6]
I felt that these studies suited my powers and would satisfy me. [10]
He who carves them, serves them and offers sacrifice to them; aye and a great sacrifice, for he devotes his best powers, to their service. [10]
The powers of the world were making ready to crush the presumptuous France of the Jacobins, and the France of King and Aristocracy would be restored. [9]
On that spot the two supernatural powers fight for the soul. [10]
I secretly admitted the truth of his remark, but whenever I yielded to the impulse to write I felt as if I were being disloyal to the mistress to whom I had devoted all my physical and mental powers. [10]
In this emergency the President felt it his duty to employ with energy the extraordinary powers which the Constitution confides to him in cases of insurrection. [7]
He believed in the powers exerted by that remarkable man over spirits, and his ability to work miracles, for he had proved in the most startling manner that he had perfect control even over such a determined mind as that of the prefect. [10]
And by contrasting the powers and limitations of two such young persons as Gifted Hopkins and Cyprian Eveleth, we may better appreciate the nature of that divine inspiration which gives to poetry the superiority it claims over every other form of human expression. [6]
The leader of the orchestra had been accustomed to submit to the sovereign's arrangements as unresistingly as to the will of higher powers, and Barbara also restrained herself. [10]
No matter if the object of this kind wish is a centenarian, it is quite safe to assume that he is ready and very willing to accept as many more years as the disposing powers may see fit to allow him. [6]
In what manner the mental powers were first developed in the lowest organisms, is as hopeless an enquiry as how life itself first originated. [1]
In succeeding chapters the mental powers of man, in comparison with those of the lower animals, will be considered. [1]
She had reached the limit of her powers of suffering. [11]
Then it needs the helping powers. [10]
Momentarily he overcame the feeling of superiority with which I had entered his presence; neutralized the sense I had of being associated now with the higher powers which had put him where he was. [9]
Now with birds the evidence stands thus: they have acute powers of observation, and they seem to have some taste for the beautiful both in colour and sound. [1]
The records of the early Church make it indisputable that powers of healing were recognized as among the gifts of the Spirit. [5]
The legend of the Count Mirtemberg, who discovered its healing powers by seeing a wild boar go down to the warm spring to wash its wound, has been rendered familiar by Uhland to every German. [10]
But it was the constant use of the little knowledge which he had that developed and exercised his mental powers. [7]
The judgment of the community will generally be guided by some rude experience of what is best in the long run for all the members; but this judgment will not rarely err from ignorance and weak powers of reasoning. [1]
Can't we reduce the armaments little by little--on a pro rata basis--by concert of the powers? [5]
After the confession the almoner heard things to which he would gladly have shut his ears, though they proved that the time which the marquise had spent at the French court had benefited her powers of observation. [10]
But I saw that you were going through a crisis; that you might, with your powers, build up your life into a splendid and useful thing. [9]
We must suppose that the rhythms and cadences of oratory are derived from previously developed musical powers. [1]
I can believe that some have welcomed the decay of their active powers because it furnished them with peremptory reasons for sparing themselves during the few years that were left them. [6]
Gruner showed him that others were already devoting their best powers to solve it, and offered him an opportunity to try his ability in his model school. [10]
If he fails, that is a reason why he should convince his fellows that the failure was not inherent in himself, but in ill-luck or a misdirection of his powers. [4]
It was strange that I began to be rather sorry for him, that I felt a certain reluctant regret that he should thus squander his powers against overwhelming odds. [9]
It is certain that his manner changed, and during the rest of the walk she listened demurely when he talked about Wall Street, with casual references to the powers that be. [9]
It was evident that Bob was blissfully unaware that hostilities between powers of no mean magnitude were about to begin; that the generals themselves were on the ground, and that he was holding treasonable parley with the enemy. [9]
The time to test your powers has arrived. [10]
It is the task of the institute to cultivate the powers which are especially requisite for the future fulfilment of the calling appointed by Nature herself. [10]
While at Archon's table he had determined to place his cure in the hands of higher powers. [10]
How little I suspected that the young man then seated beside me, who had cast so unthinkingly his mighty powers on the side of corruption, was to be one of the chief instruments of her salvation! [9]
This is a surprising circumstance, as these animals possess highly-developed sense-organs and have considerable mental powers, as will be admitted by every one who has watched their artful endeavours to escape from an enemy. [1]
I have made some principalities and powers reckon with me. [11]
If I did so, it would be with the fixed purpose of giving my whole powers to the service of humanity. [6]
Did you rely so little on your compelling powers, my lord, that you must needs resort to that bait? [11]
It is not so difficult to credit Madame Caprell with clairvoyant powers when one has read the letters of Samuel Clemens up to this point. [5]
Armed with these slender powers, she hurried away, commissioned to bring either old Mr Garland or Mr Abel, bodily, to that apartment. [12]
It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects that unfit a man for military service, and all the intellectual ones that limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. [6]
All her powers since morning had been concentrated on ensuring that they all--she herself, Mamma, and Sonya--should be as well dressed as possible. [2]
In these days she looked at her idol, and for the first time believed it to be within her finite powers to measure him. [9]
In that book she has planned out her system, and classified and defined its purposes and powers. [5]
By the time she had got it open again--a crack--he had reached the sidewalk, and was apparently in full possession of his powers and faculties. [9]
Cynthia's powers of selection were not remarkable at this period, and perhaps it was as well that she never knew the effect of the various works upon the hitherto untamed soul of her listener. [9]

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