Agency

Examples

• Your allusions are lost on me sir, said Bulstrode, with white heat; the law has no hold on me either through your agency or any other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and have this put in the evening papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This agency of the supreme Being we know to have been asserted by [As father Malebranche and other Cartesians. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It will be understood that electromagnets were the ticker's actuating agency. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The use of this agency is still in its earliest youth, but it has already done so much that it is impossible to say to what a stature it may grow. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If sound is to reach our ears, it must be through the agency of matter, such as wood, water, or air, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Many hitherto unknown metals have also been discovered through the agency of the spectroscope, among which may be named caesium, rubidium, thallium, and indium. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is the agency of progress in action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was through its agency that the telegraph, the electric light, and many other discoveries in electricity were made and rendered possible. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The same agency may have come into play with the eggs of some of the smaller fresh-water animals. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But it lacked any agency for securing the development of its ideal as was evidenced in its falling back upon Nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Not only was some method required but also some positive organ, some administrative agency for carrying on the process of instruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A large sulphate of copper battery was employed, which could through the agency of a train of gears give only a very slow speed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• While books and conversation can do much, these agencies are usually relied upon too exclusively. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• By the use of l inen smeared with gum they excluded all putrefactive agencies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Other and unknown agencies probably have also played a part. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Intentional agencies--schools--and explicit material--studies--are devised. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• At such a moment this gift of despoiled Italy to the world was a noble revenge, setting in motion incalculable beneficent forces and agencies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The instantaneous and dastardly destruction of our battleship, The Maine, with 250 of her crew, in Havana harbor, February 15, 1898, by one of these agencies, is a harrowing illustration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• For subtilty of principle, impressiveness of action, and breadth of results, there is nothing comparable with it among mechanical agencies. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They involve physical agencies, assiduity of practice, and external results. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Ends being beyond the pupil's present grasp, other agencies have to be found to procure immediate attention to assigned tasks. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But great results require great agencies, and so great labor-saving machines, operated by armies of men, are brought into requisition, and with these the crop is both planted and reaped. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• All the larger vessels now publish a daily paper on board, the news in which has been supplied by the same agencies who feed the newspaper on land. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Chloroform, nitrous oxide gas, and ether had been placed at the service of the physician in saving life, and the revolver, guncotton, and nitroglycerine added to the agencies for slaughter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These agencies may be all grouped together, for the sake of brevity, under the expression of the laws of growth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Modern inventors have also produced with a flourish nice instrumentalities for raising water, agencies which are covered with the moss of untold centuries in China. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The blaze and noise, indispensable to patriotic celebrations among all peoples, was produced a century ago in America by simple agencies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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