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Sentences starting with practical

Practical proof, Asher. [9]
Practical Power; 3. [6]

Sentences ending with practical

I do hope you have not dropped the classics and gone in for the modern notion of being real and practical. [4]
You see," he went on, "one great reason why I've been so successful is because I've been practical. [9]
But we cannot successfully eliminate and teach by itself that which is purely practical. [3]
Have you any right to read, especially novels, until you have exhausted the best part of the day in some employment that is called practical? [4]
Unfortunately, it is not practical. [9]
Early in their married life she had taken charge of him in all matters which she considered practical. [8]
And although it is distasteful to me, I have sworn to support the Constitution; and having so sworn, I cannot conceive that I do support it if I withhold from that right any necessary legislation to make it practical. [7]
All systematic knowledge involves much that is not practical, yet it is the only kind of knowledge which satisfies the mind, and systematic study proves, in the long-run, the easiest way of acquiring and retaining facts which are practical. [3]
He said to himself that he must be practical. [11]
But your education has, after all, been very largely practical. [3]

Short sentences using practical

Nothing practical in 'em. [5]
But a practical difficulty arose. [4]
A practical success! [9]
Power, practical, 259. [6]
She was practical. [5]

Sentences containing practical two or more times

The reason why we teach so much that is not practical and in itself useful, is because we find that the easiest way of teaching what is practical and useful. [3]
While it is true that the adoption of the proposed resolution would be merely initiatory, and not within itself a practical measure, it is recommended in the hope that it would soon lead to important practical results. [7]
This was a practical age and a practical country. [9]
My own life is more occupied than it used to be I have not so much time for thinking I am obliged to be more practical, for my dear Arthur is a very practical, as well as a very punctual and methodical man. [14]
I wanted to become the professor of practical morality, but the high master was away, so I suppose I shall have to go on making my living the same old way--by adding practical to theoretical morality. [5]
But it should be remembered that the best preparation for a practical and useful life is in the high development of the powers of the mind, and that, commonly, by a culture that is not considered practical. [4]

More example sentences with the word practical in them

And this, if you like, is practical,--so practical that the men like you, who have gained unexampled privilege, fear it more and more. [9]
A brighter person would have seen what the trouble was, earlier than I did, perhaps, but I saw it early enough for all practical purposes. [5]
We are all working for the same things, and we all believe that they must be brought about in the same practical way. [9]
Anna Mikhaylovna, practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself and her son. [2]
It is, however, within the range of practical convenience to confer with the governments of States, while it is quite beyond that range to have correspondence on the subject with counties and cities. [7]
Mrs. Benson beamed with motherly content, and was quite as tearful as ungrammatical, but her mind was practical and forecasting. [4]
We disclaim sympathy with him in practical action. [7]
We must be willing to do this, that we may walk securely in the only practical road to holiness. [5]
I think it will become an important and practical question. [7]
I became, as will be seen, anything but a practical man in the true sense, though the world in which I had been brought up and continued to live deemed me such. [9]
It was wonderful--the whole thing; and altogether the most ingenious and laborious and cheerful and painstaking practical joke I have ever heard of. [5]
Meantime, Sally Sellers, who was as practical and democratic as the Lady Gwendolen Sellers was romantic and aristocratic, was leading a life of intense interest and activity and getting the most she could out of her double personality. [5]
It isn't worth while, in these practical times, for people to talk about Indian poetry--there never was any in them--except in the Fenimore Cooper Indians. [5]
This practical joke which concealed a death-warrant--to what fearful issues might it not lead? [10]
All his efforts were made for practical effect. [7]
His great schemes were completed, he was a rich man, and he had pictured himself retiring to this Seigneury, a peaceful and practical figure, living out his days in a refined repose which his earlier life had never known. [11]
I doubt if we have more practical freedom in America than they have in England,---I said.--An Englishman thinks as he likes in religion and politics. [6]
The studies which we have glanced at are preliminary in your education to the practical arts which make use of them,--the arts of healing,--surgery and medicine. [3]
In practical life we cannot, but in his realm the novelist can, control the weather. [4]
The widow Tynan was practical, and she saw none of those things which made her daughter stand for minutes at a time and look into the distance over the prairie towards the sunset light or the grey- blue foothills. [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]
Dr. Leigh, who was laboring with a serious practical problem, heard this coldly, and with a certain contempt for what seemed to her a vague sort of consolation. [4]
The committee, in view of these objections, has been solicitous to frame a bill which would not be obnoxious to them in principle or in practical effect. [7]
I can't get used to the fact that you, who are so practical and successful in business, should be such a dreamer where I am concerned. [9]
Its great practical use in this fast age is to give one an idea of distance and of monotony. [4]
The evidence reaching us from the country leaves no doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction, and the hand of the executive to give it practical shape and efficiency. [7]
That was practical, unromantic good sense. [5]
There was some unfathomable fount in his nature which was even beyond any occurrence of his past; some radical, constitutional sorrow, coupled with a very strong, practical, and even vigorous nature. [11]
He knew his uncle would be glad to hear that he had at last turned his thoughts to a practical matter. [5]
It is necessary to treat matrimony from a practical as well as a sentimental point of view. [9]
Their theories seem to them not only practical, but they try to apply them to actual legislation; at any rate, they discriminate in vagaries. [4]
I come now to the most directly practical point connected with the subject, namely,-- What is the state of the evidence as to the efficacy of the proper Homoeopathic treatment in the cure of diseases. [3]
A further proof to Pierre of his own more settled outlook on practical matters was furnished by his decision with regard to his wife's debts and to the rebuilding of his houses in and near Moscow. [2]
Nevertheless, thanks partly to good fortune, and to the farseeing wisdom of our early statesmen who perceived that the success of our experiment depended upon the maintenance of an isolation from European affairs, we established democracy as a practical form of government. [9]
She was glad to find escape from them in practical activity. [2]
What we have to do is to work out a practical programme. [9]
Their ambition aspired to display before an admiring world a practical demonstration of the truth of a proposition which had hitherto been considered at best no better than problematical--namely, the capability of a people to govern themselves. [7]
It had come to David a pure force, a constructive and practical idealism. [11]
My purpose is to be in my action just and constitutional, and yet practical, in performing the important duty with which I am charged, of maintaining the unity and the free principles of our common country. [7]
The practical point to be illustrated is the following: The disease known as Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses. [3]
He sets up to be a practical man, and don't know as much as some of us hayseeds in the back seats. [9]
But it ceased to be a dream, and they were taken back into the hard, practical world, when, as they turned the corner, Irene pointed out her favorite sign: Silas Lapham, mineral paint. [4]
I am bound to avow that she had scarcely more practical knowledge of the peasantry amongst whom she lived, than a nun has of the country-people that pass her convent gates. [14]
If you are through your junketing by that time, it will be an admirable opportunity for you to learn the practical details of the business . [4]
He had passed through the sympathetic and emotional stages in his new experience, and had arrived at the philosophical and practical state, which takes things coolly, and goes to work to set them right. [6]
But everybody does those things, the practical things, the charities; I mean to do things for the higher life. [4]
The result of this system is, that lecture-courses upon specialties of an unusual nature are often delivered to very slim audiences, while those upon more practical and every-day matters of education are delivered to very large ones. [5]
The letters of this summer (1862) most of them bear evidence of waning confidence in mining as a source of fortune--the miner has now little faith in his own judgment, and none at all in that of his brother, who was without practical experience. [5]
It is a thing which could hardly exist in the practical North; would certainly last but a very brief time; as brief a time as it would last in London. [5]
Now this whole thing was a practical joke, and the robbers were personal friends of ours in disguise, and twenty more lay hidden within ten feet of us during the whole operation, listening. [5]
The expressman was there, hard at work,--a plain man of fifty, with a simple, honest, good-natured face, and a breezy, practical heartiness in his general style. [5]
What science can there be in a matter in which, as in all practical matters, nothing can be defined and everything depends on innumerable conditions, the significance of which is determined at a particular moment which arrives no one knows when? [2]
His love of theory made him hate everything practical, and he would not listen to it. [2]
We met you then, and if there was anything yielded, it was for practical purposes. [7]
The dog will then seize it and rush away in triumph, repeating the same manoeuvre, and evidently enjoying the practical joke. [1]
And most of them had not only the gift of the imagination necessary to great eloquence, but also were so mentally disciplined by the classics that they handled the practical questions upon which they legislated with clearness and precision. [4]
I believe that their success, however, is largely owing to their practical features.--C.D.W. [4]
One may say the type of practical joker, for these people are exactly alike all over the world. [5]
No doubt with the same amiable desire, he immediately resumed his knife and fork, as a practical assurance that the beer had wrought no bad effect upon his appetite. [12]
I had not the remotest desire to play upon any one's confidence with a practical joke, for he is a pitiful creature indeed who will degrade the dignity of his humanity to the contriving of the witless inventions that go by that name. [5]
Sonya alone directed the practical side of matters by getting things packed. [2]
So I live the practical life, and when I say that you could make your home here and win success, I do it with some knowledge. [11]
The key to the phenomena of this case, he believed, was to be found in a fact as humble as that which gave birth to the science of galvanism and its practical applications. [6]
That will be the phase of the question when it first becomes a practical one. [7]
This hardly deserves the name of a science, although Velpeau has dignified it with that title, but it furnishes an admirable practical way for the surgeon who has to operate on a particular region of the body to study that region. [3]
The Constitution is the most practical state document ever made. [4]
The article carried the implication that the modern, practical, American business man was the highest type as yet evolved by civilization: and Ditmar, referred to as "a wizard of the textile industry," was emphatically one who had earned the gratitude of the grand old Commonwealth. [9]
He had in the highest degree a practical tenacity which Pierre lacked, and without fuss or strain on his part this set things going. [2]
I don't defend the game of politics as it is played, Mr. Wetherell, but all of us who are friends of Jethro's are generally willing to lend a hand in any little manoeuvre that is going on, and have a practical joke when we can. [9]
I suppose that the education to produce these must be an elemental and practical one, one that fits for the duties of life and not for some imaginary sphere above them. [4]
Annual reports exhibiting the condition of our agriculture, commerce, and manufactures would present a fund of information of great practical value to the country. [7]
The controversy between the claims of the practical life and the intellectual is as idle as the so-called conflict between science and religion. [4]
These masters of the art of healing were once as ready with their answers as you are now, but they have got rid of a great deal of the less immediately practical part of their acquisitions, and you must undergo the same depleting process. [3]
Hence it is that what is called a practical education is set above the mere enlargement and enrichment of the mind; and the possession of the material is valued, and the intellectual life is undervalued. [4]
It may be that we are not to blame, either of us, that the practical gods are too strong. [9]
So it happens that the latter produces active, practical men, and, under favorable circumstances, great scholars, but few artists and poets. [10]
It was evident that practical New England was not sorry to be rid of such visionaries and was not in the least inclined to hire any body to bring them back to her. [5]
I have thought that it may not be unprofitable to treat the newspaper from a practical and even somewhat mechanical point of view. [4]
I convinced him that his practical inference was hasty and illogical, but in the mean time he had eaten the peaches. [6]
He came into that fellow's one day with a plan for cutting up the eighty acres he'd kept into town lots; and he'd got it all plotted out so-well, and had so many practical ideas about it, that the fellow was astonished. [8]
She had more than her rightful share of practical good sense, but still she was human; and to be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. [5]
It seemed more than doubtful whether my health would ever permit me to devote myself to a practical profession or an academic career, and my interest in jurisprudence was too slight to have it allure me to make it the subject of theoretical studies. [10]
In his lightest talk he was almost always edging towards a practical object, and it was an interesting and instructive amusement to watch for the moment at which he would ship the belt of his colloquial machinery on to the tight pulley. [6]
Sometimes this latter takes the shape of a practical joke. [5]
Now he would take up the position of a practical man and condemn dreamers; now that of a satirist, and laugh ironically at his opponents; now grow severely logical, or suddenly rise to the realm of metaphysics. [2]
Some of their superstitions have lingered in practical medicine to the present day, but chemistry has grown wise enough to confess the fact of absolute ignorance. [3]
He's made a study of it, he's spent thousands of dollars, and as soon as these machines became practical he put 'em in. [9]
Perhaps, however, the student would like to know the opinion of a person in the habit of working at matters of this kind in a practical point of view. [3]
She had that strong practical regard for the simple holy truth of expression, which Mr. Trench has enforced, as a duty too often neglected. [14]
Upon her practical strength of body and mind had come that rugged poetical sense, which touches all who live the life of mountain and prairie. [11]
With all her splendid common sense and practical everyday ability, Roxy was a doting fool of a mother. [5]
There may be some inequalities in the practical application of our system. [7]
A pertinacious arguer, so much so that sometimes he watched my awakening in order to continue a discussion on some topic of science, poetry, or practical life, cut short by the chime of the small hours, he never lost his mild and amiable temper. [6]
The effects of sixty-four medicinal substances, ascertained by one or both of these methods, are enumerated in the Materia Medica of Hahnemann, which may be considered as the basis of practical Homoeopathy. [3]
I am a simple, practical man, who loves Kentucky better than he loves himself. [9]
He was so shrewd, so keen, so full of practical sense, and so good-humored as long as things went on to his liking, that few could resist his fascination. [6]
Never did Emerson show the perfect sanity which characterized his practical judgment more beautifully than in this Lecture and in his whole course with reference to the intellectual agitation of the period. [6]
Here is a sentence or two from the article:-- "With all the faults of the system devised by the Puritans, it was a practical system. [6]
His ideas were seldom practical, his nature was yielding and fickle. [5]
Harry shouldered his rod and went to the field, tramped over the prairie by day, and figured up results at night, with the utmost cheerfulness and industry, and plotted the line on the profile paper, without, however, the least idea of engineering practical or theoretical. [5]

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