Aids

Examples

• The idea cannot be put aside, and with such poor aids as he can command he commences his task. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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.
• Music, astronomy, logic, and even theology, might be exploited as aids to public speech. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But the owners of Lowick apparently had not been travellers, and Mr. Casaubon's studies of the past were not carried on by means of such aids. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The imitation of the action of horses' hoofs was one of the means attempted, but such additional aids were eventually found to be of no avail, and were discontinued. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Even with those aids, I might not have come to myself as soon as I did, but that I saw Estella approaching with the keys, to let me out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He and his aids now withdrew behind the curtain: the other party, which was headed by Colonel Dent, sat down on the crescent of chairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It greatly aids us to realize their common humanity that these earliest true men could draw. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I knew him before he gave me one of those aids, though, a moment before, I had not been conscious of remotely suspecting his identity. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They had played together as children, been the confidants of each other's little secrets, mutual aids and consolers in difficulty and sorrow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The former are considered as a branch of the aids of excise, and, in the provinces where those duties take place, are levied by the excise officers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These aids may, therefore, be small at first; but as the capital increases by the accumulated interest, they will be more ample. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The canal channel throughout is very accurately charted, fully equipped with aids to navigation, and governed by explicit rules with which the pilots, of course, are thoroughly familiar. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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