Maintaining

Examples

• He said he had entreated her to favour him by maintaining her privilege of fixing the time for the marriage at her own will and pleasure. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• How to remove the heated, vitiated air and to supply fresh air while maintaining the same uniform temperature is a problem of long standing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But it is not selfless--it is a maintaining of the self in mystic balance and integrity--like a star balanced with another star. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Whatever expense Great Britain has hitherto laid out in maintaining this dependency, has really been laid out in order to support this monopoly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You mean, just as I am, without any means of maintaining a wife. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This demonstrated the impossibility of maintaining so long a line of road over which to draw supplies for an army moving in an enemy's country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The demand for labourers, the funds destined for maintaining them increase, it seems, still faster than they can find labourers to employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rubber card index addressograph had by now proved itself a wonderful time and labor saver in addressing and maintaining lists of names of average size. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Bacon believed in honoring the great discoverers and inventors, and advocated maintaining a calendar of inventions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The expense of maintaining the fixed capital in a great country, may very properly be compared to that of repairs in a private estate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Perhaps you were right in that our best chance lies in maintaining a neutral position. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• No trouble has been experienced in maintaining absolute control over the vessels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But there is no country in which the whole annual produce is employed in maintaining the industrious. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Though its cultivation, therefore, requires more labour, a much greater surplus remains after maintaining all that labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is the only means of maintaining that distance which the reserve of English manners and the decorum of English families exact. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The whole, or almost the whole public revenue is, in most countries, employed in maintaining unproductive hands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The capital, therefore, annually employed in cultivating this land, and in maintaining this labour, must likewise be much greater. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The whole expense of maintaining the fixed capital must evidently be excluded from the neat revenue of the society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• For this purpose Mr. Bain took for a standard time-keeper a clock of the best possible construction, placed in circumstances favourable to maintaining accuracy. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The demand for productive labour, by the increase of the funds which are destined for maintaining it, grows every day greater and greater. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was not till the seige of Veii, that they who staid at home began to contribute something towards maintaining those who went to war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To show the difficulty experienced in maintaining the blockade, I will mention a circumstance that took place at Fort Fisher after its fall. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This may be carefully removed, and the ice tumbler is then filled with liquid air rich in oxygen, which, by maintaining the cold of the ice tumbler, keeps it from melting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It seems scarce possible to invent a more equitable way of maintaining such works. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He talked on in this complimentary strain with a fluency which left me no exertion to make beyond the effort of maintaining my composure. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The funds for maintaining productive labour being the same, the demand for it would be the same. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their price, therefore, in such countries, must be sufficient to pay the expense of building and maintaining what they cannot be had without. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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