The office" was the editorial den which swallowed him up, and held him in bondage from morning until night; appropriating his labor for a very small pecuniary compensation, too, it may be added.
Most egregiously had the lady infringed it; appropriating to herself various objects previously disclaimed in favor of Samoa.
Called to the stand, the Upoluan deposed, that thrice he had rescued that identical box from Annatoo's all-appropriating clutches.
Second, the danger of appropriating them--having regard to the prevalent habit of keeping the numbers of bank-notes.
Appropriating the new ideal instantly, she had on the first morning of her service "turned out" the room before breakfast, well knowing that it must have been turned out on the previous day.
Nor, as long as there was no objection to killing some animal and appropriating without trouble the benefit of its experiments, was there likely to be.
This end, we may say, she shrewdly secured by vesting the aggressive and appropriating power in the sex relation in that sex which had to bear the least part of the consequences resultant on its exercise.
If it is said in objection, that pupils in school are not capable of any such originality, and hence must be confined to appropriating and reproducing things already known by the better informed, the reply is twofold.
The advantage which the activity of man has in appropriating and finding meanings makes his education something else than the manufacture of a tool or the training of an animal.
He would examine on the one hand the properties of the nutritive material, and on the other hand the acts of the organism in appropriating and digesting.
After appropriating a generous supply for the day, the remnant was reduced to ashes.
Appropriating the whole or a part of it in payment of claims supposed to have been unjustly rejected by the Commissioners, and of others in which the amounts allowed may not have been satisfactory to the claimants.
Only a small proportion of the whole, therefore, went overboard; and since the remainder would in any case be irretrievably lost to its proper owners, Leslie had no scruples whatever in appropriating it to their own use.
That living act of 'appropriating faith' presupposes, indeed, the presence of these truths in our understandings, but in the very act they are changed into powers in our lives.
The unrest of the soul that is capable of appropriating God is an unrest which has in it, if we understand it aright, the assurance that it shall be stilled and satisfied.
The following January Alexander Bain took out a patent for an electro-magnetic clock, and he subsequently charged Wheatstone with appropriating his ideas.
Ferdinand himself was not above appropriating articles found among the spoils of his subjects.
As, by this time, the fines and penalties were invariably applied to the Inquisition, the pretence of appropriating to pious uses was presumably a mere device for embezzling them.
That reward it would not be for your honour to extend, and justify the ill opinion of your Italian countrymen by formally appropriating to yourself all that was forfeited by the treason you denounced.
Besides, he was flurried in the expectation of seeing the squire, and of appropriating the money which was to secure the dearest object of his ambition.
I will do him the justice to say that he preferred it to the thought of actuallyappropriating to himself and to his child a portion of Miss Hazeldean's dower.
When it came to a division of the booty, he looked with indifference upon the pile of riches, leaving them for the Grand Master of the Order; he was only interested in appropriating the women.
The miser of a ship-owner had victualled the vessel with scandalous parsimony, and the captain, in his turn, had sailed with a scanty supply, appropriating to his own uses part of the money intended for stores.
The life of the organism consists in its power of interchanging energy with its environment,--of appropriating by its own action some fragment of that pre-existent and limitless Power.
And, finally, the text contains the principle that the means of appropriating this new nature is contact with the truth.
When detected, he would invariably repay the injured party in kind, by appropriating another article of the same sort and bringing it to him.
Before starting, it must frankly be said, that with the usual red instinct for appropriating everything which comes in their way, my cabin had been thoroughly gutted.
Primo, O'Connell appropriating to himself the revenues of half of Her Majesty's dominions.
So, you see, that this principle of appropriating what the labor of her own hands had earned, when necessity demanded it, was that upon which Tidy was to act.
This was one of the occasions when he could not escape the entanglements of the gang, and must work for the gang instead of appropriating all the loot for his own personal and nefarious ends; but he was the Adventurer.
The old bee-keeper often never looked at his bees after the swarming season, until the time came for appropriating their spoils.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appropriating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
