The third great want among animals is that of security, which seems to have diversified the forms of their bodies and the color of them; these consist in the means of escaping other animals more powerful than themselves.
But the favor of Buffon, powerfulas his influence was,[21] together with the aid of the minister, did not avail to give Lamarck a permanent salaried position.
Cuvier, in speaking of these revolutions, "which have changed the surface of our earth," correctly reasons that they must have excited a more powerful action upon terrestrial quadrupeds than upon marine animals.
You wrestle against a powerful and a cruel enemy, and you need great and powerful aid; but you have read your Bible Edith, and again and again has Emilie said to you, "of yourself you can do nothing.
He was a tall, straight negro of powerful build, and although his features were African, they were not gross in character.
With the purpose to make her father's friend happy was also blended the powerful motive to extricate herself.
If you will hear my side of the question, I will listen with the deepest interest to yours, and believe me you have a powerful ally in my heart.
It would seem that the ships which appeared so diminutive in the distance must be annihilated, yet Mary with her powerful glass saw them creep nearer and nearer.
Her will was so strong, and found such powerful expression in her dark, sad eyes, that for a moment he was dumb and embarrassed.
Denied the hope of any future achievement, lacking a powerful motive to sacrifice herself and her love, her strong nature chafed and tended to despondency at the thought of a simple existence.
The powerful stimulant acted speedily on an unvitiated system, and with returning strength memory recalled what had befallen the one she loved.
Sensible Mrs. Bodine had no intention that her pretty cousin should be hidden behind the prejudices so powerful in those with whom she was immediately associated.
At these words he flushed hotly, sprang up, but by an evident and powerful effort controlled himself, and sat down again.
She craved some motive, some powerful incentive, which could both sustain and inspire.
Then by a powerful effort he threw the horse's head and forequarters away from him with such force that the shafts cracked.
It would bring happiness to my father's friend; it would become a powerful incentive in my own life, and, above all, would compel me to banish the thought of one to whom I have said I will never speak again.
The man's powerful frame trembled like an aspen; convulsive sobs heaved his breast as he carried the child to the further corner of the yard.
Kern lifted up his magnificent voice, charged with the pent-up feeling of his heart, and his wife joined him with her rich, powerful contralto.
In the wake of this rear guard, following leisurely was the Union army under General McClellan, quite a hundred thousand strong, including a powerful artillery of 300 guns.
One capacious and powerful mind alone took them all in at one view, and determined to surmount them all.
These pieces have long been forgotten; but what Caryl could not do for himself has been done for him by a more powerful genius.
But, if he attempted to subdue the Protestant feeling of England by rude means, it was easy to see that the violent compression of so powerful and elastic a spring would be followed by as violent a recoil.
He wanted therefore to have, not vague professions of good will, but distinct invitations and promises of support subscribed by powerful and eminent men.
That regiment was probably selected because it had been raised, at the time of the Western insurrection, in Staffordshire, a province where the Roman Catholics were more numerous and powerful than in almost any other part of England.
Yet so numerous and powerful were the Tories in the Upper House that, notwithstanding the weakness of their case, the defection of their leader, and the ability of their opponents, they very nearly carried the day.
It was impossible to doubt that he had in some quarter a powerful and artful prompter.
He already saw himself, in imagination, the umpire of Europe, the champion of many states oppressed by one too powerful monarchy.
His mind was not sufficiently powerful to emancipate itself from the prejudices of education.
He was more powerful than any English King had been within the memory of the oldest man.
Was he a petty prince, a Cardinal Furstemburg, who must fall if not upheld by a powerful patron?
In answer to this burst of impotent anger, those who had recommended the amnesty represented with profound respect, but with firmness, that a prince attacked by powerful enemies can be safe only by conquering or by conciliating.
Miss Jewel, she'll be powerful upset ef she comes back an' finds out.
This was a frame on which the powerful searchlight rested.
In the center of the island," Don spoke rapidly, "there is a powerful searchlight, a government light for use only in time of war or a great emergency.
In this house was the hoisting machine and the powerful dynamos that lifted the great searchlight.
His voice had an official and powerful ring to it.
No human presence could compare to this feeling of a powerful force that embraced us as it seemed to call out: "Lazarus, come out!
They held a brief discussion, then they all bowed deeply as Abdullah said this to me: "Effendi, you are a great and powerful official.
From among you, select the boldest Lion, the most powerful Elephant, the strongest Hippo, and the largest Whale.
However, long before the sermon was over I forgot the offence which I had taken, and listened to the sermon with much admiration, for the eloquence and powerful reasoning with which it abounded.
Both were powerful men; and both of them, if report were true, had more than a superficial knowledge of the art of self-defence.
Look, for example, at that very powerful and numerous body the Dissenters, the descendants of those sturdy Patriots who hurled Charles the Simple from his throne.
Although rough and unpolished, he was gifted with natural eloquence and a powerful voice, and knew exactly how to work upon the feelings of the people.
The most famous of his books is For the Term of his Natural Life (Melbourne, 1874), a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper.
Stated otherwise, that is why the industrial factor is everywhere the most powerful factor in civilization; and why the economic interpretation is the most searching interpretation of history at its every stage.
Clermont was at one time the seat of a countship, the lords of which were already powerful in the 11th century.
In private, his never-failing courtesy, his agreeable manners and a noble and generous heart for all who needed protection against the powerful or the lawless, endeared him to hosts of friends.
For a hundred years, till the first quarter of the 13th century, the Cistercians supplanted Cluny as the most powerfulorder and the chief religious influence in western Europe.
There were two parties in the provinces, but one was far the most powerful upon the great point of the Spanish soldiery.
He, under the influence of powerful doses of opium, enjoyed this.
Children are, moreover, dependent on their parents for their comfort and support, and therefore the authority of a parent is supported by a powerful consideration, which teachers of schools have not at command.
The longest life, the greatest industry, joined to the most powerful memory, would not suffice to make us profit from a hundredth part of the world of books before us.
That system of morality, even in the times when it was powerful and in many respects beneficial, had made it almost as much a duty to hate foreigners as to love fellow-citizens.
A sense of humour is not incompatible with imaginative sensibility; and even Wordsworth might have been an equally powerful prophet of nature if he could sometimes have descended from his stilts.
It has been said of him that his presence could be felt in a room you entered blindfold; and the same, I think, has been said of other powerful constitutions condemned to much physical inaction.
And he will then better estimate how powerful a curb to men is the open disapproval of their fellows; and how, conversely, the outward applause of their fellows is a stimulus surpassing all others in intensity.
I wish I could have spoken to you all, to express my admiration of the splendid manner in which you have fought and are still fighting against a powerful and relentless enemy.
This gives some idea of how powerful even one of their medium-sized shells is, for it went through five thick brick walls before it exploded.
And at the same time men are impelled by a powerful impulse to procure these things at the expense of another.
We captured the man on his arrival and turned him over to the police, who found upon him enough of a new and powerful explosive to sink a battleship.
But the strong hand of the manager descended on her shoulder, and with a quick, powerful shove propelled her out on to the stage.
The scattered waters of the Discharge are drawn together here into one deep, narrow, powerful stream, flowing between gloomy shores of granite.
We turned and fled, as the guides say, a quatre pattes, into illimitable space, trying to get out of the way of our too powerful friend.
Whereby the hearer is given to understand that the earthly kingdom, terrible and grand and all-powerful as it seemed to be, was created for the sake of the heavenly, which in due time should be set up in it, but not of it nor from it.
The great Father was likewise the great Penitent; and the first preacher of God's justice to men told them likewise of His mercy: a preacher powerful and unequalled in both his themes.
Mr. Adams, so distinguished in this branch and that of weights and measures, laid last year the corner stone of an observatory at Cincinnati, where will soon be one of the largest and most powerful telescopes in the world.
Far better, indeed, as we shall presently see, than the opulent and powerful perform the same duties in our day.
The poor were not left to fall into starvation and misery for the want of work; there were no paupers; and the rich and powerful classes did not neglect the affairs of the indigent and weak as those who had no claim upon them.
He detected the powerful action of oxygenous air upon the blood, and first pointed out the true theory of respiration.
The reciprocal machine for producing shocks, invented by Page, and the powerful galvanic magnet of Henry, are entitled to respectful notice.
Maudsley laid especial stress upon the observation, that intemperance, without hereditary predisposition, was one of the most powerful agencies in the production of aberration of the mind.
A powerful therapeutic agent, and one which has been more or less extensively employed in the treatment of various forms of head and spinal symptoms, is cold.
The dynamometer is now more powerful in absorbing work than in the form Fig.
Filehne found that hydrochlorate of tetrahydroquinoline was much more energetic in its action than quinoline, but could not be used on account of a too powerful local effect.
He was a powerful man physically, and a typical frontiersman.
This was as a tonic to me then, and is now, for nothing, to my mind, is so inspiring as music accompanied withpowerful song.
Steps were taken again with a view to my schooling at Devonport; this time I went, and these school-days I recall with pleasure, though they were fraught with a powerful temptation, which I shall presently describe.
As the enemy brought up reinforcements, towards dusk his attacks became more and more vigorous, and he was supported by a powerful artillery inland, which the ships' guns were powerless to deal with.
They were brought back almost exhausted from want of food, and from sad and powerful conviction have promised to warn their countrymen against such wild excursions in future.
Dalton was a stout, powerful man, and about thirty years of age at the time of the rencontre I am about to describe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "powerful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
