Endowed

Examples

• As it has a double task to perform, it must be endowed with double force and energy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Edison’s record was not for visual inspection, but was endowed with the mechanical function of reproducing sound. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Two non-entities cannot exclude each other from their places; because they never possess any place, nor can be endowed with any quality. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was not endowed either with brains or with good fortune, and confess that I have committed a hundred mistakes and blunders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But he was unluckily endowed with a good name and a large though encumbered estate, both of which went rather to injure than to advance him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• After the church of Rome, that of England is by far the richest and best endowed church in Christendom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You must know that, although I have used the term 'expectations' more than once, you are not endowed with expectations only. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The royal Confessor was endowed by heaven with power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This faculty of reason is endowed with power to influence conduct directly. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• These two wondrously endowed beings had been spared from the universal wreck, to be my companions during the last year of solitude. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now do these complex and singular rules indicate that species have been endowed with sterility simply to prevent their becoming confounded in nature? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Whatever capacity any one may be endowed with, it is entirely useless to him, if he be not acquainted with it, and form not designs suitable to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Had he had an Aristotle to inspire him, he would no doubt have endowed scientific research upon a great scale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He supported and endowed the Buddhistic Order, and encouraged its teachings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Andreu Nin was a man endowed with almost supreme patience. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is impossible it coued have this effect, if it was not endowed with a power of production. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A few months later was published Cowley's proposition for an endowed college with twenty professors, four of whom should be constantly traveling in the interests of science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• She became endowed with energy enough to cross the room! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• O, what a wonderful man this Merdle, what a great man, what a master man, how blessedly and enviably endowed--in one word, what a rich man! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• This Baptistery is endowed with the most pleasing echo of all the echoes we have read of. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Nature has wisely endowed man with nerves of sensation as danger signals for the conservation of life. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Number two, you mean,' said Mr. Bolter, who was largely endowed with the quality of selfishness. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Didn't you tell me that your guardian, Mr. Jaggers, told you in the beginning, that you were not endowed with expectations only? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The mind is simply endowed with the power of producing various qualities in reaction to the various realities which act upon it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The substance of some lectures in defense of Christianity, in courses endowed by the will of Robert Boyle, made Franklin a Deist. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But how many, my dear Madam, are endowed with your prodigious strength of mind? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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