Injurious

Examples

• Although carbon dioxide is very injurious to health, both of the substances of which it is composed are necessary to life. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In Rousseau's words: Children are always in motion; a sedentary life is injurious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For why do we blame all gross and injurious language, unless it be, because we esteem it contrary to good breeding and humanity? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is known that you are not my sister; I cannot introduce you as such: to attempt it would be to fasten injurious suspicions on us both. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It seems, even, that such an incipient transformation must rather have been injurious. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The effect would be demoralizing to the troops and injurious to their health. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of course it took time to penetrate into the meat, but the first superficial penetration stopped the injurious effects of germs which set up putrefaction. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Manipulation in this case could not have been injurious, as the plants have separated sexes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Observations have already been made, in this room, injurious to the reputation of my noble friend. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Heat, if properly regulated and controlled, would never be injurious to man; hence in the following paragraphs heat will be considered merely in its helpful capacity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Hurry of any kind is inexpressibly injurious to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is well for the old girl that she has but one birthday in a year, for two such indulgences in poultry might be injurious. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He opposed those physicians who believed in the spontaneity of disease, and he wished to wage a war of extermination against all injurious organisms. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I determined to tell you that you are not justified in these proceedings, and that they are injurious to his sister. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure, generally injurious, or not useful to the species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Until I tried, with Mr. Berkeley's aid, a few experiments, it was not even known how far seeds could resist the injurious action of sea-water. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I got down into the canoe, while the Dutchman, standing upon the deck, loaded me with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• How,' said Eugene, taking another little piece of earth, and shooting it with great precision at the former mark, 'how injurious to any one else? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I fear delay may have been injurious in some instances; but this is not my house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Or injurious to any one else. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The fever was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse being quickened again by injurious courtesy. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It would not do to take any measures injurious to the farmers, Joe, I think? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He is a broad-faced, bull-necked, young butcher, with rough red cheeks, an ill-conditioned mind, and an injurious tongue. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Some injurious suspicion lodged itself in his brain, that she wanted to supplant Mrs Bangham, and that she was given to drinking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Chlorine gas has a very injurious effect on the human body, and hence cannot be used directly as a bleaching agent. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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