I'm afraid, though, that we're exhausting the most obvious resources.

A rumour of the intended marriage of his perjured mistress reached his ears, and, struck to the soul, he endeavoured, by manual labour, to exhaust his strength and banish the recollection of his misery.

It exhausted all the subjects which dialectical subtlety ever raised.

Which of us has ever exhausted his possibilities?

This evening that little brat was more than usually exasperating, and having exhausted the patience or repelled the company of all the rest, found itself alone, and set up a fretful, continuous scream, disagreeable even to me, and torturing to Martial ears, which, adapted to hear in that thin air, are painfully alive to strident, harsh, or even loud sounds.

When I desire a respite, I find it impossible; and after I have exhausted my powers, there seems to be something standing straight up in front of me, and though I have the mind to make towards it I make no advance at all.

Its choicest gifts 'twill pour, That last for evermore, Nor time exhaust the store Through endless days.

Connie had exhausted all her means of amusement in the morning.

Were the fork used instead of the hoe; were the weeds kept down; were the manure returned to the soil, instead of festering about everywhere in sun and rain: in a word, were even as much done for the land as an English labourer does for his garden; still more, if as much were done for it as for a suburban market-garden, the produce might be doubled or trebled, and that without exhausting the soil.

Dwelling in a poor palace; yet exhausting his energies over those boundary-ditches and watercourses!

"Write it up as if it were a real society event, dear, and exhaust your vocabulary on the gowns.

When completed, this stroke of the conspiracy ran: "DEAR SIR: A mother and sister who have exhausted all official sources in vain to get trace of a lost son and brother, John Sprague of the Caribees, have reason to believe that you can give them a clew to his whereabouts.

I was in hopes he had exhausted his whole stock of this sort in his letter to you.

The barricade replied, and made the mistake of foolishly exhausting its ammunition.

The injustice of so flagrant an invasion of the liberty of particular men has been already exposed; nor is it, in my opinion, less easy to discover the imprudence of exhausting all our supplies at once, and sweeping away all our sailors, to supply a single exigency.

Neither Aristabulus, nor Mr. Dodge, could resist any longer; and, after exhausting their ingenuity, in the vain effort to induce one of the two gentlemen to question them in relation to the meeting of the previous night, the desire to be doing fairly overcame their affected mysteriousness, and a formal request was made to Mr. Effingham to give them an audience in the library.

Modern scientific strategy exhausted its utmost efforts; flanking and turning movements were planned, attempted and failed; huge masses of men were hurled against each other in every formation known to military skill; myriads of lives and millions of money were sacrificed in historic endeavors to breach the enemy's frontbut ever the foeman held his ground and neither side could claim decided advantage.

The late grand alliance, sir, was supported at the expense of this nation alone; nor was it required from the other confederates to exhaust the treasure of their country in the common cause.

Let me, at the risk of tediousness, proceed to bring these generalities to a point by a few instances,not intending to exhaust the topic, but only to exemplify the method of approaching it.

Indeed, it would be no easy task to exhaust the list of flowers which have entered into the marriage customs of different countries, not to mention the many bridal emblems of which they have been made symbolical.

Thus were the republicans exposed to fruitless victories or disastrous checks, which exhausted their men and resources.

Never was a strong man more enthralled than was Antony by this bewitching woman, who exhausted every art to please him.

Swift appealed to him one day "whether the corruptions and villainies of men in power did not eat his flesh and exhaust his spirits?"

The fall in the price of the stock, as we have already notified you, exhausted the money you placed in our hands as margin.

" The equipment of this fleet had exhausted the treasury, and the protector dared not impose additional taxes on the country at a time when his right to levy the ordinary revenue was disputed in the courts of law.