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Examples

• Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It will require a very great one to enable them to do so in the rude produce of the soil. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Just the reason why we should take something to enable us to bear up against the fatigue,' remonstrated Mr. Bob Sawyer. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Presently he stopped and picked out a square piece of board, such as is usually left to enable plumbers to get at the joints of the gas-pipes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• This little rectory CAN do no more than make Mr. Ferrars comfortable as a bachelor; it cannot enable him to marry. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It might undoubtedly enable me to put four horses to my carriage; but what would it avail me to have it said that Sir Humphrey drives his carriage and four? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Come, said Adrian, I have promised for you, enable me to keep my engagement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As he came into the circle of dim light which enables me to see him more clearly I was thrilled with horror at his appearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is really the presence or absence of overtones which enables us to distinguish the note of the piano from that of the violin, flute, or clarinet. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A careful study of these reports enables one to forecast to some extent the probable weather conditions of the day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Nothing but the strength of his purpose enables him to make it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This, rising above the water, and provided with reflecting lenses, enabled the steersman to discover the surface conditions and see any near vessel or other object. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Then let it be so,' rejoined Rose; 'it is but one pang the more, and by that time I may be enabled to bear it better. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• This enabled the enemy to bring almost his entire strength into the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It would afford us the highest gratification to be enabled to record Mr. Pickwick's opinion of the foregoing anecdote. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Holley of the United States improved the Bessemer apparatus by enabling a greater number of charges to be converted into steel within a given time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Flint glass contains lead; the lead makes the glass dense, and gives it great refractive power, enabling it to bend and separate light in all directions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The strength of that passion had been a power enabling him to master all the knowledge necessary to gratify it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass the barrier and the frontier! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• All language can achieve is to act as a guidepost to the imagination enabling the reader to recreate the author's insight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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