We therefore gave him a small medal and showed him all the attention in our power, with which he appeared very much gratified.
We have to depend entirely upon this meagre outfit for the purchase of such horses and provisions as it will be in our power to obtain--a scant dependence, indeed, for such a journey as is before us.
His feet being frozen, we put them into cold water, and gave him every attention in our power.
He at last completed a most excellent plan: and very sorry we are, that it is not in our power to present it to our reader, since even the luxury of the present age, I believe, would hardly match it.
Our intention, in short, is to introduce our heroine with the utmost solemnity in our power, with an elevation of stile, and all other circumstances proper to raise the veneration of our reader.
Edwin, you have done wrong," cried he; "give me that weapon which you have sullied by raising it against a prisoner totally in our power.
Wallace for a moment did not answer; but warmly straining the earl to his breast, said, as he released him, "Such support will give sinews to our power.
When Psamtik is in our power, shall I tell him what share you had in his overthrow?
And yet," said Amasis, "Death has for us too his terrors, and we do all in our powerto evade his grasp.
This time goes manly: Come go we to the King, our Power is ready, Our lacke is nothing but our leaue.
We must content ourselves, then," said Beauchamp, "with rendering the count all the little services in our power.
Come,' said the captain, 'we have done all in our power, and M.
We shall henceforth do all in our power to drive out the saloon and destroy its political strength.
We are both eager to make all the reparation in our power.
We have it always in our power to turn into infantry again at a moment's notice.
Once they were in our power, everything could be done as we desire.
And there is another matter: this camp contains vast treasures, and I am well aware we have it in our power to pick and choose as much as we like for ourselves out of what belongs by right to all who helped in its capture.
Two hundred pieces of cannon, the whole park of artillery, ninety flags, and all their generals are in our power.
Our time is short, my friend, too short to allow an opportunity of retrieving almost any misspense of it; much more so to allow a redemption for any neglect to perform great public services when once happily in our power.
MADAM, It is much to be regretted that the pleasure of obeying the first emotions in favour of misfortune is not always in our power.
In proportion as the true character of the party is understood, is the force of the considerations which urge to every effort to disappoint it; and it seems to me that there is a very solemn obligation to employ the means in our power.
But both attempts are equally beyond our power--we find it impossible to satisfy the understanding upon this point, and as impossible to induce it to remain at rest in relation to this incapacity.
That this antinomy is based upon a mere illusion, and that nature and freedom are at least not opposed--this was the only thing in our power to prove, and the question which it was our task to solve.
Though you have entered their residence by mistake, we shall but fulfil the service they expect in furnishing you with every assistance and every accommodation in our power.
And we pretend not, young stranger, merely to contribute what is in our power to relieve the uneasiness of your mind, we would also refresh your wearied frame.
We may here secure ourselves from sudden intrusion, and a thousand means of concealment are here in our power.
We have done you all the service in our power, and you have not paid us for it.
Only with this subordination is the summum bonum the whole object of pure practical reason, which must necessarily conceive it as possible, since it commands us to contribute to the utmost of our power to its realization.
But if it is in our power to do and to forbear doing what is creditable or the contrary, and these respectively constitute the being good or bad, then the being good or vicious characters is in our power.
Possibly, therefore, even before the termination of the present sitting it will be in our power to make a further communication to the House.
We did not feel it in our power to refuse our assent to that principle.
We have done everything, gentlemen, in our power to drive these populations into the arms of Russia.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our power" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
