Assists

Examples

• From whence does this proceed, but that the memory in the first case assists the fancy and gives an additional force and vigour to its conceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This iron shell is put in place segmentally by means of a shield, an ingenious mechanism which both protects the work under construction and assists in the building of the iron shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But I suppose Mrs. Thornton assists you in your marketing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They really concern us, and, consequently, any account of them which assists us in dealing with things at hand falls within personal experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Further, water assists in the removal of the daily bodily wastes, and thus rids the system of foul and poisonous substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I see where the doubt lies, Mr. Hartright, and I promise you that it shall be set at rest, whether Anne Catherick assists us to-morrow or not. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• As on the other hand, the facility assists the fancy in a small removal, but takes off from its force when it contemplates any considerable distance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I am very much obliged to anybody who assists me, and I only want to be consulted as a mere form, sometimes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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