Influences

Examples

• In this connection a short anecdote may be quoted from Edison as indicative of one of the influences turning his thoughts in this direction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But so from rough outsides (I hope I have learnt), serene and gentle influences often proceed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If you were to search all England, said he, I don't suppose you could find a household more self-contained or freer from outside influences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It belonged in the list of softening, sensuous influences peculiar to this home of Eastern luxury. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• More pliable under change than her sister, Laura showed more plainly the progress made by the healing influences of her new life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The presence of these nitrogen compounds influences the action of the chlorine and produces unsatisfactory results. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These influences have resulted in splitting up the subject matter of education into separate studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Others believe that the shape of the pelvis in the human mother influences by pressure the shape of the head of the child. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It has inspired me with great commiseration, and I hope I understand it and its influences. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Sensible of my deficiencies, I have surrounded myself with moral influences expressly meant to promote the formation of the domestic virtues. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• All the exquisite influences of the hour trembled in their veins, and drew them to each other as the loosened leaves were drawn to the earth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We may mean by potentiality a merely dormant or quiescent state--a capacity to become something different under external influences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The arts had been much influenced and revivified by Indian and Central Asiatic influences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All such influences were still in another world, separated by mountains, deserts, and wild nomadic tribes until that time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were all three more sharply on the alert, and less deadened by the miserable influences of the place and time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Neither, as she approached her old home now, did any of the best influences of old home descend upon her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• So many influences modify atmospheric conditions that unfailing predictions are impossible, but the Weather Bureau predictions prove true in about eight cases out of ten. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Selden's mind was of this order: he could yield to vision-making influences as completely as a child to the spell of a fairy-tale. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The moral influences are beginning to work. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Finally, with the appearance of human communities, came what is perhaps the most powerful of all living influences upon climate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sewing-machine had brought with it, like the friction match, one of the most profound influences in modifying domestic life, and making it different from that of all preceding time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The influences which we can bring to bear upon this question are chiefly indirect. Plato. The Republic.
• He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the attempt which Plato makes to connect them, we easily trace the influences of ancient Pythagorean notions. Plato. The Republic.
• It is not subject to the refining and expanding influences of the more accurate and comprehensive material of direct instruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But when the day is done, even the most unimpressible must yield to the dreamy influences of this tranquil starlight. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To those influences, and to the improving society of my friend from boyhood, commend me with your best wishes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educate others into slaves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Because water loses heat when it freezes, the presence of large streams of water greatly influences the climate of a region. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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