Leads

Examples

• I have something beyond this, but I will call it a defect, not an endowment, if it leads me to misery, while ye are happy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The subject of gymnastic leads Plato to the sister subject of medicine, which he further illustrates by the parallel of law. Plato. The Republic.
• You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This leads us to consider the fifth source of authority, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• My dear Maurice, you will be happier in the actual battle than in all the statecraft which leads to it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A man leads a dree life who's not i' th' Union. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The whole of this doctrine leads us to a conclusion, which is of great importance in the present affair, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Low, I am afraid, sir, very low, answered his son;but we shall be indulgentespecially to any one who leads the way. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But this account, which might as properly belong to a former period of my life as to the present moment, leads me far afield. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The stars are shining as they shone above the turret-leads at Chesney Wold. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In 1897 the United States leads the world in the following ratios: Tons Pig Iron. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A very wide hall leads to the street door, and in this the women sit, the most of the day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Brothers, turn your faces to the south, and come to me in the street of many noises, which leads down to the muddy river. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The path from the wood leads to a morass, and from thence to a ford, which, as the rains have abated, may now be passable. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They were such perfectly natural-looking leads that I could hardly keep from taking them up. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And I understand she leads him a terrible life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Now, Jim, said his master, show us how old Elder Robbins leads the psalm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It leads one astray; one does not know what to do. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The isolation of aims and values which we have been considering leads to opposition between them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The second paradox leads up to some curious and interesting questions--How far can the mind control the body? Plato. The Republic.
• It was impossible, from that position, to see the fall, but I could see the curving path which winds over the shoulder of the hill and leads to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When any opinion leads us into absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I'd pitch him out o' winder, only he couldn't fall far enough, 'cause o' the leads outside. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He takes Mrs. Snagsby by the hand and leads her aside to an adjacent cask. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She will follow wherever Lydia leads. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But this freedom, which leads to many curious extravagances of character, is in reality only a state of weakness and dissipation. Plato. The Republic.

Editor: Spence