As has been well said, this was the most successful of all the many expedients that have been tried, "to fertilize the rich man's land by the sweat of the poor man's brow.
He was great in expedients for dealing with the natives on one hand, and full of a hundred stories of village humour, fun, and pawkiness on the other.
In itself it has no resource; its violence is quite helpless and its vacancy offers no expedients by which it might be unknotted and relieved.
If these two expedients of the conscience convicted of vanity were to be subjected to a critical judgment, they would both be convicted of vanity themselves.
There is accordingly an escape from death open to man; one not found by circumventing nature, but by making use of her own expedients in circumventing her imperfections.
Change was in the air, and not alone in America, for England and France were experiencing the same problems, and attempting to devise new expedients to solve them.
Whenever it had reason to believe that such expedients were being used, the Commission was to issue an order requiring the cessation of the practice.
As to the crew, they listened in profound attention, occasionally exchanging glances whenever any of the nautical expedients struck them as being out of role.
With this demand, which they had no pretence to deny, they have yet found expedients to delay their compliance.
It is time to consider how our debts may be lessened, and by what expedients our taxes may be diminished.
Writers of the latter sort appear but seldom, and most of our political papers are the amusements of leisure, or the expedients of want.
Let any man recollect the ideas that arose in his mind upon hearing of a bill for encouraging and increasing sailors, and examine whether he had any expectation of expedients like these.
It was one of the expedients that lasted longest in keeping up the spirits of the men.
But of all Contractions or Expedients for Wit, I admire that of an ingenious Projector whose Book I have seen.
Blistering, Cupping, Bleeding, are seldom of use but to the Idle and Intemperate; as all those inward Applications which are so much in practice among us, are for the most part nothing else but Expedients to make Luxury consistent with Health.
The farmer, if he is not blessed with abundant capital, is often forced to have recourse to crude means and expedients in order to tide himself over a difficulty.
And they certainly resort to undignified expedients to lure their audiences.
The old conjuring trick of making a pudding in a hat never won more admiration than is now obtained by such simple expedients as frying bacon or sausages, or broiling chops or steaks, upon the stage in sight of the audience.
Biencourt and his followers were scattered about the woods and shores, digging the tuberous roots called ground-nuts, catching alewives in the brooks, and by similar expedients sustaining their miserable existence.
A thousand expedients of protection and defence occur when present, which the absent cannot fancy.
In that sentence are involved the principles of that higher statesmanship before which the expedients of merely expert men dwindle into nothing.
It is singular that the necessity for such expedients did not develop the idea of a buttress.
Under the head of constructive expedients we have a different result.
No expedientswere employed to make access either easier or more difficult, except that here and there series of hand and foot holes have been pecked in the rock.
Moreover, the number of successive coats of plaster in the kiva shows an extended occupancy, an inference which is further supported by the variety of expedients which were adopted to hold the walls in place.
The expedients employed to hold the front walls of these kivas in place are later discussed at some length.
Both of these discharge on the edge of the cliff, and it is difficult to imagine their purpose unless they were expedients for draining the rooms; but this would imply that the rooms were not roofed.
The fact that theseexpedients were not successful makes them more interesting.
These constructive expedients will later be discussed at greater length.
The fronts of all of them have fallen out, notwithstanding various expedients that were employed to hold them in place.
The walls were placed on sharply sloping rock and in some cases on loose debris, and numerous expedients were resorted to to prevent them from slipping down the slope.
The political course which he afterwards adopted, however, was not precisely of this soaring cast, but savoured more of the school of practical expedients founded by Sir Robert Walpole.
Military Bridges: With Suggestions of New Expedients and Constructions for crossing Streams and Chasms; including, also, Designs for Trestle and Truss Bridges for Military Railroads.
Expedients might be devised as he conceived that would give them all the security the nature of things would admit of.
These expedientsmust have been intended to avoid the burden of supporting Delegates from their own State.
The originality even of Emerson and of William James was of this incidental character; they found new approaches to old beliefs or new expedients in old dilemmas.
The compiler comes fresh from his difficulties and the expedients he has devised to overcome them, and it is therefore well for him to explain to the user of the index what those special difficulties are.
All they show is the feeling of pure nature, which requires no artificial expedients to express its affection for the object of its esteem when he is taken away.
Various were the expedients which he employed to keep them from carrying their threats into execution; and at length he resolved on marriage, as the only alternative he could devise, to extricate himself from his embarrassments.
She was taken into the open air, and variousexpedients were adopted to restore her, which after a short time proved successful.
These expedients have proved to you the mirage of hope, not the well-spring of relief.
The blocks used were of immense size, so huge, that even with our electrical and mechanical levers, many expedients were employed to raise them to their assigned places.
The expedients for causing the animal to drink should be devised so as to avoid all unnecessary annoyance, and if this precaution be attended to the animal will of its own accord soon drink the warm milk, and take other proper food.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expedients" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: device; expedient; influence; machination; maneuvering; manipulation; tactics
