Man cannot think only thoughts of perfect health unless he performs the voluntary functions of life in a perfectly healthy manner.
But this healthy functioning will not continue unless man performs the external, or voluntary, functions of living in a healthy manner.
If man thinks with faith of the functioning of health, he will cause his internal functions to be performed in a healthy manner, provided that he performs the external functions in a corresponding manner.
When man thinks only of healthy conditions and functioning, and performs these externals in a perfectly healthy manner, he must have perfect health.
Suppose yourself (if you can) to be Mr. Lobo, enjoying the position of first violinist in a string band which performs at Parsee weddings and on other festive occasions.
SHE performs all these actions in the most obliging manner.
Floats, with no apparent support, in the air, and performs various graceful evolutions, concluding by reversing herself completely.
His boyish feats in horsemanship, which he daily performs in the village, would be witnessed with astonishment by skillful riders.
Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and, whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave to him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
The part the pigeon performs is to transport the nut to free, unstifled soil.
On the deltas and banks of all the rivers and creeks of North Queensland and on many of the more sheltered beaches, the mangrove flourishes, that ambitious tree which performs an important function in the scheme of Nature.
For about the 29 of October, and in the 16 of Scorpius and so again in January, the Sun performs his revolution in the same parallel with the Dog-star.
She is one that thinks sheperforms all her duties to God in hearing, and shews the fruits of it in talking.
The chief burden of his brain is the carriage of his body and the setting of his face in a good frame; which he performs the better, because he is not disjointed with other meditations.
He leaves repentance for grey hairs, and performsit in being covetous.
Meanwhile an assistant, who is usually also a doctor, performs the actual work of dissection.
By this division, divers cells or rather small chambers are made therein, in which the soul (anima) performs its divers operations, for which reason it is necessary that these parts should be of different structure.
Another type of organization exists which can hardly be called institutional, but which performs a useful community service.
It matters little whether the official is under State or local authority, if he efficiently and fearlessly performs his duty.
When it adds to its exercises a supper to which the other sex is admitted, it performs a yet wider social service.
The separate States have their asylums as they have penitentiaries and reformatories, but the nation performs no such function.
It would be a misfortune for the church to perish out of the rural districts, for it performs a religious function that no other institution performs.
A retinue of servants performs many useless functions in the operation of the establishment.
Further, whoever is obstinate in malice, never performs any good work.
Yet it may happen that a person performs an easy deed with as prompt a will as another performs an arduous deed; because he is ready to do even what may be difficult to him.
Therefore by the one power of the soul he performs operations of various degrees.
He performs his tricks on the bare ground, without any such invaluable adjunct as the table of his European rival, and some of them, viewed in the light of this disadvantage, are indeed puzzling.
The bicycle is kept down-stairs, where it performs the office of a vent for the rampant curiosity of the thousands who besiege the proprietor for a peep at me.
It being too late in the day when he returns, our departure is postponed till morning, and Osman, with his knobbed stick, performs the office of nocturnal guard yet once again.
To avoid this indignity his snakeship performs the astonishing feat of leaping entirely clear of the ground, something quite extraordinary, I believe, for a snake.
He who commits a verse of Dante to memory and he who meditates upon a verse of the gospel, performs a totally different task.
There is a menagerie attached to the garden, in which a tame elephant performs all sorts of feats, and very quietly suffers anybody to ride him about a large grass-plat.
A horse called Pegasus, with wings attached to his shoulders, performs wonderful feats; and the drunken Russian courier, who rides six or eight horses at once, cannot be surpassed for dexterity and daring.
Agamemnon performs sacrifice himself, not because a priestly character was attached to the kingly office, but simply because he was "master in his own house.
This Register is entrusted to the care of the Justice of the Peace, who performs the functions of Civil State Register Officer, and in it are inscribed all the births, marriages, deaths, recognizance and legitimation of the sons.
The President of the Senate is the Vice-President of the Republic, and performs the functions of the first magistrate in case of absence, illness, resignation or death.
What class of officers in the State performs nearly the same duties as the Cabinet officers in the Nation?
In case he succeeds to the presidency, then he performs the duties of the President, and the President pro tem.
When the judge performs the duties of surrogate the one salary suffices for all the duties performed.
In case of a vacancy in the office of sheriff, and there being no under sheriff, one of the coroners designated by the county judge, performs the duties of sheriff until said vacancy be filled by election or appointment.
Senator) performs the duties of Vice-President and Senator.
Fetichism, then, in its tendency and in its purpose, in the function which it performs and the end at which it aims is not only distinguishable from religion, it is antagonistic to it, from the earliest period of its history to the latest.
But the New Caledonian not only performs the actions prescribed for the rite, he also invokes the spirits of his ancestors; and the Masai not only go through the proper dance, but call upon the god of the rain-cloud.
The Dankali female has contrived to retain her natural right of liberty; and so long as the wife performs the labour required at her hands, she is at full liberty to flirt unreproved, to the full extent of her coquettish inclinations.
He performs yet more marvellous miracles, leads a still more ascetic life, and suffers even more dreadful martyrdom; whence he is proportionably adored in the native land of credulity, superstition, and religious zeal.
No one supposes, that the owner of urban land, performs qua owner, any function.
The individual has no absolute rights; they are relative to the function which he performsin the community of which he is a member, because, unless they are so limited, the consequences must be something in the nature of private war.
There is one thing more to add: in the case of boys it would seem better at the age of seven or eight for the father to replace the mother in the rôle of suggester, while the mother, of course, performs the office throughout for her girls.
In pursuing its prey it performs the most graceful movements, doubling and diving so rapidly that it is difficult to follow its evolutions.
During times of severe frost the buzzard often performs deeds of daring to obtain a meal.
And he performs great miracles, so as even to make fire come down from heaven to the earth in the sight of men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "performs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
