If I had required any additional incentive to keep me to my daily task of watching, this would have been sufficient; but I wanted none.

That was a direct incentive to bigamy, although in what respect I never learned.

I only meant it as a little incentive.

the fancy-created deity, the wreath of fame, and all that poets have imagined to decorate the horrors of war, are not necessary to tempt the gross barbarity of the Parisian: he seeks not glory, but carnagehis incentive is the groans of defenceless victimshe inlists under the standard of the Guillotine, and acknowledges the executioner for his tutelary Mars.

The immediate incentive to their union, which was by the Scotch method, was that Esmé had applied mustard-plasters to a Cabinet Minister's person by affixing them to his dress-suit, and Tourntourq, the Chieftain, had nobly attempted to bear the blame.

Surely that is sufficient incentive for you to bring them all to justice?" "Of course.

A samurai could therefore fully sympathize with Hannibal's oath to avenge his country's wrongs, but he scorns James Hamilton for wearing in his girdle a handful of earth from his wife's grave, as an eternal incentive to avenge her wrongs on the Regent Murray.

The old immemorial goal of human endeavor was exalted, and the everlasting incentives were filled with the freshness of a divine life.

These wages he fixed at such a rate, that "they should be more than equivalent to the rent of their copyholds and the rent of their personal services when put together, in order to hold out to them an evident and profitable incentive to their industry."

It was dawning upon her with alarming force that she was exposing a hitherto unknown incentive.

The credit bestowed on probity and industry is the just reward of merit and an honorable incentive to further acquisition.

The purpose of the old man wavered, but he seemed goaded by some inward incentive that still enabled him to maintain his ground.

Poor Daggett was wearied with the subject; but Dr. Sage's predictions of an early termination of the case, and the possibility that kinsmen might cross over from the 'Vineyard,' in order to learn what the long absent man had in his possession, acted on him as keen incentives.

At the same time, the lively impressions that affected the public mind on the redemption of our captive fellow-citizens afford the most laudable incentive to our exertions to remove the remaining obstacles.

The studies of Charles Darwin, and the elaboration of the theory of evolution, have given a marvellous incentive to the new method, resulting in its wide-spread application to all the questions of nature and life.

Mere incentives to the ambition of the future.

The story had become current that I would not talk to Sam till I had settled the business with his master; and as they generally professed to believe that abolitionists wished to incite the slave against their master, by every mischievous incentive they could devise, my conduct naturally enough seemed to them remarkable.

But besides the obvious incentives just noticed, Mr. Macaulay had also the stimulus of what we may compendiously call a strong party spirit.

Such a character as Percival's, in the presence of a scholastic community, was a perpetual incentive to industry and manliness; and although he rarely spoke in its hearing, and has left us fewer published works than many others, still I believe that thousands yet live to thank him for lessons derived from the simple survey of his daily life.

Neither has the practical incentive nor the determined driver behind him.

The primary incentive for writing has to be artistic satisfaction, egoboo, and a desire for posterity.

There is no incentive to Mammon-worship so remarkable as that which it affords.

He esteemed, he loved, was deeply grateful to Mr. Hamilton, and his evident displeasure was hard to bear; yet even that he had borne, strengthened by secret yet honourable incentives.

The hope of filling an honorable place in their imagination, ought not to be the sole incentive to the practice of virtue, it should be the desire to have a good opinion of ourselves, and to be able to say, whatever may be the opinion of the public: I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

We learn from his commendatory sonnet on the 'Dymocke' Pastor fido that he had known Guarini personally in Italy, an accident which supplies an interesting link between the dramas of the two countries, and might suggest a specific incentive to the composition of his pastorals, were any such needed.