Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
As however a postponement of a few days appeared to be inevitable, those who had intended to gain the victory by stealing a march now disclaimed that intention.
In his banishment he tried to gain the favour of his fellow exiles, who naturally regarded him with suspicion.
The French held two faces, the North Sea being the third; and hence it was only necessary for them, by maneuvers, to gain the side B D to be masters of the four faces, including the base and the communications of the enemy.
Transversal maneuvers to gain the extremity of the front of operations of the enemy here become always very difficult, and often impossible.
By Christian himself had these princes been involved in the war with the Emperor; he now sacrificed them, to gain the favour of the usurper of their territories.
With the confidence which was the natural fruit of so many victories, Gustavus Adolphus commenced the siege of Ingolstadt, hoping to gain the town by the fury of his first assault.
It was not difficult, therefore, for the Administrator to gain the concurrence of men in whose minds the rememberance of these outrages was still recent.
He had won over Louis's allies, defeated his attempt to gain the assistance of the pope, and finally overcome the revolted Norman barons.
That the Church failed to gain the whole of that for which it strove was not the fault of its leaders.
Almost all the Normans accordingly applied to Robert, as they had done before, and offered to support a new attempt to gain the crown.
He spends all his remarkable eloquence in trying to persuade her, that she must forget this world entirely and only try to gain the favor of Osiris and the judges of the nether world by ceaseless prayers and sacrifices.
A king who really knows his duties, finds it an easy and beautiful task to win the love of the people--an unthankful one to gain the applause of the great--almost an impossibility to content both.
My father dreamt before his death that you had wings, and was misled by the soothsayers into the fancy that you, though you were only eighteen then, would try to gain the crown.
The fourth rule is, Not to quit any article of the Christian faith to gain the Mohammedans.
Mohammed's yielding some points of less moment, to gain the principal.
As if he had said, Your view was only to gain the spoils of the caravan, and to avoid danger; but God designed to exalt his true religion by extirpating its adversaries.
To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
That David Made Great Preparations For The House Of God; And That, Upon Adonijah's Attempt To Gain The Kingdom, He Appointed Solomon To Reign.
So the Ammonites and Philistines had them in contempt, and laid waste the country with a great army; and when they had taken all Perea, they were so insolent as to attempt to gain the possession of all the rest.
We crossed this in rushes to gain the shelter of a few houses, losing some 40 or men.
Bachelors' Commencement in January, is scoffingly said to gain the wooden spoon.
So at Olympick games when heros strove, In rapid cars to gain the goal of love.
At the same institution, individuals in the Senior Class were said to be fishing for appointments, if they tried to gain the good-will of the Faculty by any special means.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gain the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
