Zeal and diligence are the best improvers of time and mercy; as they delay not, but take the present time, so they loiter not, but do their work to purpose.
It is that would-be philanthropists and benefactors and improversof things have all along been working on a false assumption.
The dressmakers get sixteen shillings a week; the improvers six.
Rebekah and the improvers and the dressmakers and the apprentices would have endured the like hardness.
Apprentices anxious to get through their articles, andimprovers to be dressmakers, and dressmakers to be forewomen, and forewomen to be mistresses.
STEAM and fire engines, improvers of, and alleged inventors, 75–76; see also pp.
With his accusers he will only fence and play, as he had fenced with other 'improvers of youth,' answering the Sophist according to his sophistry all his life long.
It is generally the petty improvers that rush to the Patent Office to secure rights and emoluments, regardless of the claims of the founders of their patented processes.
He was one of the earliest workers and improvers of the Daguerreotype process in this country, and one of the last to relinquish its practice in London.
Both have been described as the improvers of their respective engines; but, as to all that is admirable in their structure or vast in their utility, they are rather entitled to be described as their inventors.
They were, doubtless, to some extent stimulated by the number of competitors who about the same time appeared asimprovers of the locomotive engine.
In 1726 Bradley had urged the use of liquorice, madder, woad, and caraway as improvers of the land in the Preface to the Country Gentleman.
The first threshing machine is mentioned in the Select Transactions of the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, published in 1743 by Maxwell.
To be sure, the Improvers had an eye on it, and Priscilla Grant had read a paper on cemeteries before the last meeting of the Society.
Martha Parker was a lady of all too certain age who disapproved of young people in general and the Improvers in particular.
A dozen other men, some prompted by a determination not to let a Spencer get ahead of them, others goaded into action by Improvers in their own households, had followed his example.
Mr. Levi Boulter warned his neighbors that the Improvers would insist that everybody pull down his house and rebuild it after plans approved by the society.
Diana and Jane were therefore appointed to support her morally and the Improvers broke up, buzzing like angry bees with indignation.
But if you Improvers can coax Levi Boulter to do anything for the public that he isn't to be paid for doing, may I be there to see and hear the process, that's what.
The Improvers paid him his money in bitterness of spirit, after consulting Mr. Peter Sloane, who was a magistrate.
And out of the two hundred trees set out by the Improvers by far the greater number were snapped off or torn to shreds.
Eben Wright told Anne that he wished the Improvers could induce old Josiah Sloane to keep his whiskers trimmed.
The luckless Improvers expected that Avonlea would be more prejudiced than ever against them; but instead, public sympathy veered around in their favor.
If she had thrown a bomb among the complacent Improvers she could hardly have made more.
At some future time the Improvers meant to have the lichened, wayward old board fence replaced by a neat wire railing, the grass mown and the leaning monuments straightened up.
Are the best ofimprovers when they turn country gentlemen, 167.
Virgil gives a high place in Elysium to the improvers of life, and it is neither the least philosophical or least poetical passage of the Aeneid.
You have heard of a Profession to which the luxury of modern times has given birth, that of Landscape-Gardeners, or Improvers of Pleasure-grounds.
If such a system were introduced among us, it is to be feared that the announcement of "Improvers wanted" would frequently be made in vain.
I could mention many improvers who were of the first class formerly, but who are now only in the second.
We may be glad that the zeal for enclosure was not successful in all its aims; but this view of philanthropic and energetic improvers is characteristic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "improvers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
