Forth from her bosom the young savage drew A pine torch, strongly girded with gnatoo; A plantain-leaf o'er all, the more to keep Its latent sparkle from the sapping deep.
Orders were thus issued for as much ground as possible to be gained in High Wood by sapping forward.
These pernicious customs cast discredit upon labor, destroyed frugality, and fostered idleness, thus sapping the virtues and strength of the Athenian democracy.
We cover our heartlessness and indifference with fine phrases about sapping the independence of the poor and destroying their self-respect.
Below the hard limestone, they have hollowed out a path through very soft rocks, sands, and clays; in these the streams have inevitably made large inroads, sapping the limestone cliffs which overhang them.
But within her the lassitude of dead things was ever growing, sapping her physical buoyancy, sapping her will.
Are they intending to conduct sapping operations against us like engineers, or what?
But, unless the beetles were sapping deep in the ground, what their purpose was, nobody knew.
It is strikingly concentrated on the 15°-20° gradient which is precisely where the so-called process of basal sapping is most marked.
It will be clear that when these conditions are reversed or sapping at x and at y are equal a single wall will result.
If a bergschrund forms, its action may take place at the foot of the cirque wall or high up on the wall, and yet sapping at the foot of the wall continue.
The retreat of the steps, the abrasion of the rock, and the sapping of the cirques at the valley heads excavated the upper valleys so deeply that they are nearly all, as W.
Insatiable London drew them all into its maw, and, while sapping the roses from their cheeks, enslaved many of them under one of the greatest curses of that day: the fascination of the streets.
Church professors, and doctors of divinity, are sapping the very foundations of "the faith.
Voltaire's policy of sapping the dogmas by which all tyranny was supported had been carried out unflinchingly.
Spain and the acquisition of Asia, efforts began Rome to remedy some of the disorders which were now seen to be sapping the strength of Roman society.
In the northeast the Mings were able to hold the Manchus at bay, notwithstanding an occasional foray; but a disease of the heart was sapping the vigour of the dynasty and hastening its doom.
A NEW OPIUM WAR The fiat has gone forth--war is declared against an insidious enemy that has long been exhausting the resources of China and sapping the strength of her people.
The canker of jealousy fastened itself like a secret growth upon the uncultured hearts of the men, sapping and undermining that which was best in their natures.
He was living upon the vitality of his poor strained brain, sapping the tide of reason which flowed none too surely.
They go on sapping and sapping the independence of the people.
The gold coinage was renewed, and as a safeguard against its future depreciation the existing depreciated coin was cut off from anysapping action upon it by the above restriction as to tender by weight.
Concurrently with this drain of the 5-franc pieces, the reserve of silver coins of less value began to be seriously affected by the sapping influence.
In spite of all their sacrifices the great permanent forts stood firm; but by the middle of December their new methods of sapping and mining achieved the long-desired breach in the iron ring, and East Keekwanshan fort was captured.
Since gallantry and the sacrifice of life could not prevail, patience and ingenuity must be tried, and the engineers were called upon to carry further still the sapping operations which had already breached the outer works.
By hard fighting and diligent sapping the investing army now continued to make steady progress against the Urlungshan forts which lie just east of the road and railway and command their approach to Port Arthur.
The Fiery Hun' blushed to think he had a son capable of sapping the faith and principles of a young lady, to whose familiar confidence he had been admitted under conditions of which no gentleman, old or young, was unmindful.
One and all they were designed to equip him for the great task of re-awakening the spirit of the Corsicans and of sapping the base of the French monarchy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sapping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
