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Example sentences for "these means"

  • By these means I had pretty well succeeded, and we lived tolerably together; but the affront paid to her understanding by Mr. Bennet in my favour was an injury never to be forgiven to me.

  • By these means he acquired the command of the vessel, which was already provided with every thing needful for the voyage, and immediately set sail.

  • The excessive fat produced by these means was, however, found to be far from wholesome, and was less delicate than that arising in the natural way.

  • Even if no symptom of returning animation appear, these means of recovery should be persisted in for three or four hours.

  • None of these means are to be depended upon.

  • If they are diseased to such an extent that the process of cicatrisation cannot be expected, a cure by anchylosis is, by these means, much more likely to occur.

  • But by these means, which are essential for the success of the practice, the main advantage arising from the use of a tube, viz.

  • By these means he was disencumbered of divers considerable remittances, with which his father cheerfully supplied him, on the supposition that they were spent with taste and liberality, under the direction of our adventurer.

  • By these means of introduction, the Tyrolese soon monopolised the custom of a great many noble families, upon which he levied large contributions, without incurring the least suspicion of deceit.

  • You saw I was not deceived in my opinion, and by these means I probably prevented the mischief that he might otherwise have done to some of those women or children.

  • This may very properly be called the education of an animal, since by these means he is obliged to acquire habits which he would never have learned had he been left to himself.

  • Cimon, by these means, got the town, expelled the Dolopian pirates, and so opened the traffic of the Aegean sea.

  • By these means he had pretty well advanced his fortunes.

  • If the obscurities of the word of God cannot be understood by these means, our ignorance is excusable, and will not prevent our salvation.

  • By these means he kept himself concealed for some time, and afterwards made a journey to London, in the latter part of the reign of Henry, VIII.

  • By these means a considerable number of very valuable furs were procured at an easy rate, in exchange for toys and other commodities of trifling value.

  • Raw cotton is imported in very large quantities; a great part of this commodity is employed in packing up the china ware, and by these means is conveyed into the inland part of Russia without any additional expence of carriage.

  • By these means a faint connection with that metropolis was kept alive: the Chinese learned the advantages of the Russian trade, and were gradually prepared for its subsequent establishment.

  • As they progressed by these means it became customary for them to go into the interior, and they did much mischief even among those who had no sea-traffic.

  • After enticing the citizens by these means he proposed another law, concerning which it is necessary to speak at some length, so that it may become clearer to most persons.

  • By these means, when the knee K is driven from the engine, the rack R is moved backwards; but the cog-wheel acting on the other rack beneath it, will move the latter in the contrary direction.

  • The purport of the term was by these means changed: and the history, which depended upon it, either perverted or effaced.

  • We may by these means rectify a mistake in Philo, who makes Sanchoniathon say, that Adodus of Phenicia was king of the country.

  • By these means I shall be able to bring surprising proofs of those great occurrences, which the sacred penman has recorded.

  • By these means, and by working like a galley slave, he dragged his expenditure down almost to a level with his income.

  • By these means he hoped that none of the servants would go and buy more of these same papers elsewhere.

  • By these means he saw it was something very foul, but not terrible.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better plan; but after; one side; plain terms; sometimes very; taken into; these animals; these books; these circumstances; these conditions; these gentlemen; these latter; these men; these mountains; these parts; these points; these principles; these regions; these should; these the; these things; these three; these times; these two; these were; these works