Devoting

Examples

• The giant, steam, demanded and received the obeisance of every art before devoting his inexhaustible strength to their service. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mrs. Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He was devoting himself to the stew. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But, in spite of all her friends' urgency, and her own wish of seeing Ireland, Miss Fairfax prefers devoting the time to you and Mrs. Bates? Jane Austen. Emma.
• His theory and his wishes about devoting his future to teaching had made an impression on Mrs. Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In 1748 he had sold his printing establishment with the purpose of devoting himself to physical experiment, but the cond itions of the time saved him from specialization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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