Expedient

Examples

• It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She had wandered away to a subject on which Elinor had nothing to say, and therefore soon judged it expedient to find her way back again to the first. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• My uncle will be full of horror, weakness, precipitation; and that is the only expedient which will suggest itself to him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The same question reappears in politics, where the useful or expedient seems to claim a larger sphere and to have a greater authority. Plato. The Republic.
• Or, it may be expedient for the boats to run past, but not the men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Methought this was but a poor expedient; but I assured him of my obedience and zeal. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The French, in the beginning of the last war, did not derive so much advantage from this expedient as to compensate the loss of the fashion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The customary expedient of provincial girls and men in such circumstances is churchgoing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This practice is, in most cases, the expedient of a spendthrift, who, for a sum of ready money sells a future revenue of much greater value. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In consequence of Mrs. Snagsby looking deeply edified, Mr. Snagsby thinks it expedient on the whole to say amen, which is well received. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My greatest apprehension was for mine eyes, which I should have infallibly lost, if I had not suddenly thought of an expedient. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Cudgel your brains for an expedient. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Bradley's face turned so dark on this hint, that Riderhood deemed it expedient to soften it into a compliment. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We judged it expedient, now, to tell her all we knew; which I recounted at length. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The use of the tank against trenches was an altogether obvious expedient. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Shirley's expedients did not fail her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is one of its many admirable expedients for enriching the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All her thoughts turned on this difficulty; her whole soul was occupied with expedients for effecting its solution. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A good many expedients were resorted to to keep the excursionists amused and satisfied. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The modern life of the world, however, has been replete with the resourceful expedients of the engineer, and the ingenious instrumentalities invented by him to carry out his plans. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Perhaps Calonne might return too, with fresh financial expedients. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Many of the tools and expedients she used were abominable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Such brains are fertile in expedients. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Several different expedients, however, may be fallen upon, which will effectually blunt the edge of all those incitements to diligence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These expedients simply made available the superior conductivity of the solid body over the air to transmit sound waves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Edited by Gertrude