Energies

Examples

• In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To us they are the energies of the soul, neither good nor bad in themselves. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She sighed to think what her mother's fierce energies would have accomplished, had they been coupled with Mrs. Peniston's resources. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I made it a rule to take as much out of myself as I possibly could, in my way of doing everything to which I applied my energies. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In this manner a good deal of capital and the energies of many prominent men in politics and business had been rallied distinctively to the support of arc lighting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Pasteur now applied his energies to the study of virulent diseases, following the principles of his earlier investigations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To this nobler purpose the man of understanding will devote the energies of his life. Plato. The Republic.
• He will never love me; but he shall approve me; I will show him energies he has not yet seen, resources he has never suspected. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Their fire had ceased entirely and all their energies seemed focused upon escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The compromise of Camillus (367 B.C.) had put an end to internal dissensions, and left her energies free for expansion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As I advanced in the execution of this task, I felt it more and more, and roused my utmost energies to do it well. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• For the burning of the chief city seems to have stimulated rather than crippled her energies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They engage the best energies of an increasingly large number of persons. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With all his learning he is ineffective because, instead of trying to use the energies of men, he deplores them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But although the bodily powers of the great man were thus impaired, his mental energies retained their pristine vigour. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I hope your energies will then once more trouble you with their strength. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• To that then I turned all my energies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Bee, all of whom have grown up with the battery and still devote their energies to its commercial development. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the first, the publiche is shown oblivious of self; as modest in the display of his energies, as earnest in their exercise. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What energies did it transmute? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They began to master the energies and dull the ardor of the party. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The more northerly Huns were checked and their super-abundant energies were turned westward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thus feminism, arising out of a crisis in sexual conditions, has liberated energies that are themselves the motors of any reform. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They alone are capable of giving ideas of relation, and of arousing the dormant energies of thought. Plato. The Republic.
• I began to muster all the energies of my character, generally fertile in resources, to consider of a remedy for this coming evil. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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