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Example sentences for "invisible hand"

  • What did Adam Smith mean by "an invisible hand"?

  • Professor de Amicis was not only touched on the arm but forcibly pulled, as if by an invisible hand.

  • All this is merely a kind of prelude," I resumed, "for Bottazzi apparently proved that the invisible hand of Eusapia's invisible arm could not penetrate a cage of wire mesh that covered the telegraphic key in the cabinet.

  • There were often the marks of blows and pinches upon her, which were supposed to come from an invisible hand.

  • A chest, was by an invisible hand, carried from one place to another, and the doors barricaded; and the keys of the family taken some of them from the bunch where they were tied, and the rest flying about with a loud noise.

  • Sustained in the air by an invisible hand, it came gently forward above our table, whence it settled down upon my hand and upon that of my neighbor on the left.

  • Another time, a music-box, the handle of which was turned by an invisible hand, played in perfect time with the music movements that Eusapia was making upon my cheek.

  • Yvon and Finette plunged into the sea; a rope was thrown them by an invisible hand, and when the furious giant reached the shore the ship was receding rapidly at full sail, leaving behind it a long furrow of shining foam.

  • Only just now I was overtaken with sleep in spite of myself, and if I were not sure that I was dreaming I should declare that an invisible hand boxed my ears twice, at which I awakened with a start.

  • An invisible hand seemed to impel the ship onward.

  • William Carr, who has most skilfully opened out its features; and in whatever he has added, has done justice to the place, by working with an invisible hand of art in the very spirit of Nature.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acid phosphate; afterwards discovered; also able; carbon print; down below; eight guns; great liking; invisible hand; invisible hands; made worse; money matters; not being; other industries; pass them; ranging from; redeem them; refrigerated cargo; still hunting; then draw; timbered houses; when cool; wicked world; wolde have