Acts

Examples

• None can imagine her ferocious cruelty who has not witnessed her daily acts for over half a year. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The statesman acts in part as an intermediary between the experts and his constituency. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They fulfill their destiny in issuing, later on, into specific and perceptible acts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These were the opening acts of an active and aggressive career. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Abu Bekr was a man without doubts, his beliefs cut down to acts cleanly as a sharp knife cuts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Out of experience come warrings, the conflict of opinions and acts within the individual and between individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But now my boasted independence was daily instigating me to acts of tyranny, and freedom was becoming licentiousness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What was Mr. Casaubon's bias his acts will give us a clew to. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I mistook the chapter, and book, and Testament--gospel for law, Acts for Genesis, the city of Jerusalem for the plain of Shinar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Such acts were not wanting to adorn the grim train that waited on the progress of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You would not expect him actually to perform those degrading acts? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The diving case is not absolutely water-tight, nor is it desired that it should be so, as the slight leakage acts as a lubricant to the joints, and aids in their movements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As the moist material is drawn through the bleaching solution, the acid on the fabric acts upon the solution and releases chlorine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Still more effective is the fact that unless an individual acts in the way current in his group, he is literally out of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Typed by Edmund