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Example sentences for "body and"

  • And June, with her heart suddenly warmed and comforted in the way in which an unexpected kindness does warm and comfort, went very willingly and, tired out in body and mind, fell asleep in ten minutes.

  • And then, when he was yours, body and soul, you turned him down!

  • She is the perfect model for such a subject--body and soul.

  • He felt contented in his own house, at ease in body and mind.

  • Each dreamed of the other at night, each thought of the other on awaking, and, without yet having voiced their sentiments, each longer for the other, body and soul.

  • The poor woman lived in continual fear, in a ceaseless trembling of body and soul, in everlasting expectation of outrageous thrashings.

  • She had captured me, body and soul, by her gestures, her manners, even by her clothes, which seemed to take on a peculiar charm as soon as she wore them.

  • Uncertainties beset one at the outset; the road one has to follow is found to be perilous and obscure, and one hesitates and postpones; one feels himself a home-body and is afraid of engaging too deeply and of going too far.

  • I have come back broken in body and in heart.

  • Perhaps it is the absence of it that makes me what I am--a body and an intelligence without a soul.

  • Is that a reason for using all your powers to destroy him in body and mind?

  • She wished that, like him, she could escape from the wound of the word in a senseless lethargy of body and mind.

  • There is much natural inborn strength of body and mind in the world, and on the whole those who possess either accomplish more than those in whom either is the result of long and well-regulated training.

  • For that task we have need of all the resources of our being; of courage and high devotion, of faith in ourselves and our comrades, of clean, straight thinking, of discipline both of body and mind.

  • Instead I discover a soldier-boy who obeys and keeps silent, and who, in his inmost heart, is in the grip of terrors both of body and soul.

  • Who are you," she suddenly burst out, "to dispose of the poor, body and soul?

  • After all, this man loved her too, could not help it that she loathed him; could not help it that he had the disposition of her, body and soul!

  • According to the old physicians, these humors, when unduly tempered, produce a disordered state of body and mind.

  • Through are both weak in body and oblivious.

  • The whole employ of body and of mind.

  • But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

  • And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit.

  • The former is called the Pyrrhic; in this the movements of attack and defence are imitated in a direct and manly style, which indicates strength and sufficiency of body and mind.

  • Am I not right in saying that a good education tends to the improvement of body and mind?

  • Wine may be allowed to have a religious as well as a festive use; it is commended both in the Old and New Testament; it has been sung of by nearly all poets; and it may be truly said to have a healing influence both on body and mind.

  • In body and form he was now a man, and in thought and heart was quickly ripening to manhood, for, as was said before, men matured quickly in those days.

  • A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich.

  • I believe neither in idols nor demons," said he, "I put my sole trust in my own strength of body and soul.

  • If women are in general feeble both in body and mind, it arises less from nature than from education.

  • I know that libertines will also exclaim, that woman would be unsexed by acquiring strength of body and mind, and that beauty, soft bewitching beauty!

  • That is to say, the appropriate state of body and brain is proved to be necessary for memory, but not to be sufficient.

  • Our two-fold classification of particulars gives rise to the dualism of body and biography in regard to everything in the universe, and not only in regard to living things.

  • The theory of the engram, or any similar theory, has to maintain that, given a body and brain in a suitable state, a man will have a certain memory, without the need of any further conditions.

  • Worn in body and mind, mortified and wounded, he soon fell ill again.

  • I'm here when you want me, body and soul, at any hour of the day or night.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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