Thereby

Examples

• Provisions are thereby rendered dearer, in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When the cranes or other apparatus to be worked thereby are in operation, water is passed from the cylinder through a small pipe which actuates the crane through hydraulic pressure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1882, however, a machine for doing this was invented, thereby dispensing with the old hand method and cheapening the operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In many factories where phosphorus is used without great care workmen have been greatly affected thereby. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When current is made, the relay attracts an armature, which thereby closes a circuit in a local battery and thus causes a click of the sounder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Not only was her agriculture thereby threatened with a great decrease in crop production but her supply of military explosives was also threatened. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The gray came in just after, and thereby prevented any ill treatment which the others might have given me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But it is possible to send too strong a current through our wire, thereby interfering with all motion and destroying the motor. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The electric or etheric waves thereby set up are detected and received by another special form of apparatus more or less distant, without any intervening wires or conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If he has any share at all in what they are doing, he is led thereby to use things in the same way, or to use other things in a way which will fit in. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Thereby hangs a tale, said Shuffle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He is thereby saved from the embarrassment of either too large a company, or too large a family. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But this increase of rent could be got only by granting leases to their tenants, who thereby became, in a great measure, independent of them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Mithraist votary actually bathed in the blood of the sacrificial bull, and was born again thereby. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It may have been that the survivors hoped to retain thereby some vestige of the strength and virtue that had died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That they should be man and wife in good time, if the happiness of neither were endangered thereby, was the fancy in question. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• On the contrary, they, and almost all the other classes of our citizens, will thereby be obliged to pay dearer than before for certain goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Water issues in a narrow jet similar to that of the ordinary garden hose and strikes with great force against the lower part of the wheel, thereby causing rotation of the wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The Major was twirling them round by the little chain from which they sometimes hung to their lady's waist, and was thereby endangering his own eye. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A more extensive market must have been created for that surplus produce, so as to raise its value, and thereby encourage its increase. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Rebecca used to mimic her to her face with the most admirable gravity, thereby rendering the imitation doubly piquant to her worthy patroness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• On the 17th of November Hood started and moved in such a manner as to avoid Schofield, thereby turning his position. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Every commodity, besides, is more frequently exchanged for, and thereby compared with, other commodities, than with labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As a result _M_ moves downward, and thereby induces rotation in the large wheel _L_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They raise its value, and thereby contribute to encourage its increase. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These were arranged in boxes, and were accompanied by a vial containing sulphuric acid, into which the match was dipped and thereby instantly ignited. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The canton of Underwald, in Switzerland, is frequently ravaged by storms and inundations, and it is thereby exposed to extraordinary expenses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Eustacia could not help replying, though conscious that she endangered her dignity thereby. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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