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Example sentences for "power and"

  • Notwithstanding this massing of power and force, the working class has at no time been passive or acquiescent.

  • At their command spacious, majestic palaces arose at Newport, whither in the torrid season some of the Vanderbilts transferred their august seat of power and pleasure.

  • The title was in the corporation, not in the individual; hence the men who controlled the corporation swayed the substance of power and ownership.

  • He could well afford to smile cynically at it, so long as no definite move was taken to interfere with his privileges, power and possessions.

  • Or seek some slave of power and gold To be thy dear heart's mate; 10 Thy love will move that bigot cold Sooner than me, thy hate.

  • The Heaven whose course follows your power and art, Oh, gentle creatures that ye are!

  • The farther back we go in our civilization the more traces we find of woman's power and freedom, with goddesses, empresses, and woman-favoring laws.

  • Also I began to make a list of my cherished grudges, with a fine sense of power and pleasure.

  • Again in our present Age, the most progressive and dominant races are those whose women have most power and liberty; and in the feeblest and most backward races we find women most ill-treated and enslaved.

  • What man has done to the family, speaking broadly, is to change it from an institution for the best service of the child to one modified to his own service, the vehicle of his comfort, power and pride.

  • But, a very short time ago, a noble Duke, one of the highest in power and rank of the right honourable Baronet's adherents, positively refused to lend his aid to the executing of that Act.

  • The Imperial Commissioner, emboldened by the facility with which he had perpetrated the first outrage, and utterly ignorant of the relative position of his country and ours in the scale of power and civilisation, has risen in his requisitions.

  • But can any man, who is of opinion that Roman Catholics ought to be admitted to office, honestly maintain that they now enjoy more than their fair share of power and emolument?

  • And he was a man of power and influence in the world--a man who could provide for his mate a home of which any woman would be proud to be the mistress.

  • It helped her to know that this man of large affairs, of power and authority, understood.

  • As a class he considered them cold, calculating, selfish, greedy of power and wealth, and regardless of the means by which these were acquired.

  • The weakness and poverty of the recent slave was pitted alone and unaided against the wealth and power and knowledge of the master.

  • All obstacles were at length removed; and in February 1687, Tyrconnel began to rule his native country with the power and appointments of Lord Lieutenant, but with the humbler title of Lord Deputy.

  • For in the integrity of that prerogative he had a reversionary interest; and he was, by nature, at least as covetous of power and as impatient of restraint as any of the Stuarts.

  • This was the moment at which the Batavian federation reached the highest point of power and glory.

  • The whole language resembles the body of an artistically trained athlete, in which every muscle, every sinew, is developed into full play, where there is no trace of tumidity or of inert matter, and all is power and life.

  • After this unexampled exercise of power and responsibility as the disposer of kingdoms, he slowly returned to Italy, dismissed his army at Brundisium, and entered the capital as a private citizen, where, in 61 B.

  • Of particular nations it is frequently evident, that, intellectually and morally, as well as in power and thrift, they have sunk below a level once attained.

  • He left his country on a high pinnacle of power and dominion.

  • So for centuries men have recognized in the large aquiline nose a sign of power and ability.

  • Sometimes the feeling of grandeur, the euphoria, is less fantastic and the patient imagines himself a great inventor, a statesman of power and wisdom, a writer of renown, etc.

  • A behavior so very opposite to that of his amiable predecessor afforded no favorable presage of the new reign: and the Romans, deprived of power and freedom, asserted their privilege of licentious murmurs.

  • And, as if by a vision, there rose distinct in her memory a stern brow, a form of power and terror--the brow and the form of him who but once again in her waking life the Prophetess had told her she should behold.

  • That he should rise so high in the early part of his career was less remarkable than that he should have so long continued the possessor of a power and state in reality more than regal.

  • Religion, consecrating by divine right the inviolability of power and of privilege, has given humanity the strength to continue its journey and exhaust its contradictions.

  • He was the topsail of the nobility, and in power and trust of offices far above all the nobility.

  • But when he came the second time, He came in power and love, Softer than gale at morning prime Hovered His holy Dove.

  • He held himself together with all his power and will.

  • It was to regain her hold upon a man who had once acknowledged her power and, in a sense, had bowed to her will.

  • We call it power and magnetism in your case," he answered in that low, soothing voice which had helped to quiet storms in more than one chancellerie of Europe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appeared much; ask him; could give; disembodied spirit; great love; had recourse; hospital gangrene; looks round; make some; moderate means; more light; organic acid; power engine; power motor; power repeaters; powerful army; powerful effect; powerful force; powerful influence; powerful minister; powerful telescope; powerfully built; refined products; secret police; thoroughly cooked; utterly impossible