Possibilities

Examples

• Without it the engine would have been too clumsy and slow for practical use, but with it the greatest possibilities of use appeared. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This, in turn, has opened up possibilities of much higher speed and greater efficiency in the machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To be man was as nothing compared to the possibilities of the creative mystery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If he tells you that socialism is against human nature, we have a perfect right to ask where he proved the possibilities of human nature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The latter represents the possibilities of the former; not its existing state. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• After the fall of Carthage the Roman imagination went wild with the hitherto unknown possibilities of finance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After much discussion they appointed a committee to call on Sir Humphrey Davy and ask him to investigate the possibilities for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• With improvements in safety there seems no limit to the possibilities of flight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Because the way you have just been supposing there for a minute is how the possibilities of that attack look to those who have ordered it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There was still a residue of personal property as well as the land, but the whole was left to one person, and that person was--O possibilities! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At the same time the British government awakened to the great possibilities of Fulton’s device. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It threw open the gates to the whole landscape of possibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The community of will is limited in size by the limitations set upon the possibilities of a community of knowledge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The more the educator knows of music the more he can perceive the possibilities of the inchoate musical impulses of a child. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Huge possibilities have remained undeveloped because of the opposition of owners, forestallers, and speculators to their economical exploitation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He saw its possibilities, as well as the chief obstacles to be overcome--viz. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I only name possibilities. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Driven to think of it as bad, except for certain particular functions, they could, of course, not see its possibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For Edison, in spite of the achievement with which its name will forever be connected, it had lost all its attractions and all its possibilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A little suggestion to the police that they send home children found on the streets after nine o'clock has varied possibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania, I answered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But they indicate the possibilities--greater to-day than ever before--of using active occupations as opportunities for scientific study. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What its future is to be no man may say, but its destiny is not yet fulfilled, and it is pregnant with potential possibilities. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mrs. Cadwallader's mind was rapidly surveying the possibilities of choice for Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was of course impossible to accept a loan from Rosedale; but proximate possibilities hovered temptingly before her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It had itself neither the area, the agricultural possibilities, nor the mineral wealth to be important. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am talking of possibilities, Charles. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And that, in the least of us, is so rich that no one has yet exhausted its possibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Pregnant with possibilities were many of the observations that had been recorded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The model was made at Ilion, but another type of bolt gun, the Keene, seemed to offer still greater possibilities at the moment, and the plant was being prepared to manufacture this. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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