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• 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.
• A name casually written on a slip of paper has enabled me to find her out. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A few minutes more of silent exertion enabled him to proceed with composure. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Even the slave craftsmen of Babylon and Rome were protected by laws that enabled them to save and buy their freedom and to set up for themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By certain changes they made in the thread carrier and connections, they were enabled to make a double looped stitch. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By thus manipulating the various solvents you will be enabled probably to separate the crude asphalt into several distinct hydrocarbons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Although by far the largest undertaking yet made, the improvement in rock-boring machinery enabled it to be constructed much more rapidly and at less expense. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We have little doubt that we should have been enabled to present it to our readers, but for a most unfortunate occurrence. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is mainly wood pulp that has enabled books and newspapers to be made so cheaply, for they are now furnished at a less price than the cost of the paper made in the old way from rags. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Porter was thus enabled to throw one hundred and fifteen shells per minute. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was then only by a combination of talents that any of these three important inventions was enabled to achieve remarkable success. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is on the strength of that loan I am enabled to continue the bold game which, a while since, I feared I should never play more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Furthermore, the vessels were enabled to double their number of productive trips. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This he was enabled to do by the Jacquard loom. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By these means the men were enabled to walk about erect when off duty, without fear of annoyance from sharpshooters. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This enabled her to indulge in reverie without seeming to do so--she might have been believed capable of sleeping without closing them up. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Logan intrenched himself hastily, and by that means was enabled to resist all assaults and inflict a great deal of damage upon the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What are the characteristics of the air which have enabled man to accomplish these feats? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This gave them an airtight container for the meat and enabled them to keep smoked meats all during the summer months. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Warnings of frosts and of freezing weather have enabled the growers of such products to protect and save large quantities of valuable plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is unnecessary to say that my interference enabled me, in due course of time, to ascertain the purport of the Young Person's remarks. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To study this he made an instrument called the dynamometer, which enabled him to calculate the resistance of friction to which carriages would be exposed on railways. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They were enabled, from the density of the forest, to approach within a few hundred yards of our advance before being discovered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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