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Example sentences for "full measure"

  • The writer, throughout his Relation, shows a full measure of the coarse and covetous spirit which marked the adventurers of Peru.

  • He had a full measure of that pride in his State so deeply cherished by Virginians.

  • Love she could give him in full measure, the same enduring love which would be his for ever, believing or unbelieving, living or dead.

  • In the outer courts were stalls of oxen, pens of sheep, cages of doves and pigeons; and the ceremonial fitness of these sacrificial victims was cried aloud by the sellers, and charged for in full measure.

  • To such a One, the Spirit of God is not apportioned; it is His in full measure.

  • There could scarcely have been a full measure of truly human experience in the relationship between Jesus and His mother, or between Him and Joseph, had the fact of His divinity been always dominant or even prominently apparent.

  • Indeed, it brought little honor to any of the parties concerned in it, but, on the other hand, a full measure of those calamities which always follow in the train of war.

  • Yet it cannot be denied, that Mary had inherited, in full measure, some of the sterner qualities of her father, and that she was wanting in that sympathy for human suffering which is so graceful in a woman.

  • Margaret received these advances in the spirit in which they were made; and the confidence which she had formerly bestowed on Granvelle, she now transferred in full measure to his successful rivals.

  • He had a full measure of the religious bigotry which belonged to the age; and he had melancholy scope for displaying it, as chief of that dread tribunal, over which he presided during the last ten years of his life.

  • That illustrious man had not escaped the usual lot of humanity; his brilliant successes had brought on him a full measure of the envy, which seems to wait on merit like its shadow.

  • Isabella, indeed, was placed in situations, which demanded more frequent and higher displays of it than her rival; but no one will doubt a full measure of this quality in the daughter of Henry the Eighth.

  • And the inspiration now fell, happily for the army, upon one in whom a full measure of soldierly strength and courage was combined with the education of an Athenian, a democrat, and a philosopher.

  • But this merely deprived the Thirty of that foreign support which Lysander, had he still continued in the ascendent, would have extended to them in full measure.

  • Therefore what he wanted is responsible government in full measure in connection with the provincial branches.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brownish gray; dans une; full account; full blast; full bloom; full blossom; full cargo; full colour; full confidence; full consideration; full daylight; full dress; full flower; full grown; full house; full power; full song; full stomach; full suffrage; full uniform; full year; fully armed; fully convinced; fully described; fully discussed; not feel