Ability

Examples

• After all, I have played my part to the best of my ability on this life's stage, but Fate has been too strong for me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Then Hubbard discovered a young man in Washington who impressed him as having remarkable executive ability. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Each side had to train men in ability to study and expound the records which were relied upon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ability of the eye to adjust itself to varying distances is called accommodation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If what is good in the world depended on our ability to define it we should be hopeless indeed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is a volonte de pouvoir, if you like, a will to ability, taking pouvoir as a verb. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The high price of such commodities does not necessarily diminish the ability of the inferior ranks of people to bring up families. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Edison, a half-brother of Edison's father, and a man of marked inventive ability. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I do not question the personal courage of General Johnston, or his ability. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Somewhat allied to this curious faculty is another no less remarkable, and that is, the ability to point out instantly an error in a mass of reported experimental results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To say the least, this evidenced great ability and enterprise on the part of the youth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I trust you will not be disappointed in my administrative ability. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• My captor, whose name was Tars Tarkas, was virtually the vice-chieftain of the community, and a man of great ability as a statesman and warrior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The same theory accounts for the esteem and regard we pay to men of extraordinary parts and abilities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A wife, a modest young lady, with the purely appreciative, unambitious abilities of her sex, is sure to think her husband's mind powerful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I, who have valued myself on my abilities! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• His abilities, in both these respects, are generally in proportion to the extent of his stock, or to the number of people whom it can employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• How one person's abilities compare in quantity with those of another is none of the teacher's business. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Birth, abilities, and education, had been equally marking one as an associate for her, to be received with gratitude; and the otherwhat was she? Jane Austen. Emma.
• She was very pretty and not, I think, deficient in natural abilities, though it is really very good of me to say so; for she could not endure me! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Have they contributed to encourage the diligence, and to improve the abilities, of the teachers? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He does not want abilities. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• They would rather NOT have a man of Mr. Micawber's abilities. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And that their money ought not to be given away without their consent, by persons at a distance, unacquainted with their circumstances and abilities. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Betsey went with alacrity, proud to shew her abilities before her fine new sister. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My surmises did not for a moment class a man of the Count's abilities and social position with the ordinary rank and file of foreign spies. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To confess the truth, I very heartily wished, and not for the first time, that I had had some other guardian of minor abilities. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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