Converts

Examples

• Brahminism had long since ousted Buddhism from India, but the converts to Islam were still but a small ruling minority in the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This boyish notion won no converts, and at the age of eighteen he went on a lecture tour on chemistry, under the dignified title of Dr. Coult. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In both engine and turbine the real source of power is not the steam but the fuel, such as coal or oil, which converts the water into steam. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Islam had made millions of converts, and had digested those millions very imperfectly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Few of these were armed otherwise than with such rustic weapons as necessity sometimes converts to military purposes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Somewhen about A.D. 270 Mani came back to Ctesiphon and made many converts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They greedily imbibed this belief; and their over-weening credulity even rendered them eager to make converts to the same faith. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His conversion to socialism was noted, but it gained no converts to imperialism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To the average mind the most satisfactory answer would be--that it is simply a machine which converts mechanical power into electricity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He saves himself the risk and trouble of exportation, when, so far as he can, he thus converts his foreign trade of consumption into a home trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Countless converts missed the real thing in it altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If they did not make very many converts, at least they made sceptics among the adherents of the older faiths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For a time Japan welcomed European intercourse, and the Christian missionaries made a great number of converts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And there was a swift progress in learning upon the part of these new converts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The predominant passion swallows up the inferior, and converts it into itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The most important transaction of social life, he who is the idealist philosopher converts into the most brutal. Plato. The Republic.
• The dynamo takes mechanical power and converts it into electrical energy, and the electric motor takes the electrical energy and converts it back into mechanical power. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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