"You will be furthering her interests, as well as doing me a great personal favor, if you will tell me what you know.

" All this was Greek to Messrs. Dodge and Bragg, who, in furthering their objects, were so accustomed to "stirring people up," that they had quite forgotten that the more a man was in "an excitement," the less he had to do with reason.

I can conceive of no nobler life than one devoted to furthering the cause of science.

This so-called labor union intended to take advantage of a crisis to further its own ends.

He wanted to further his friend's plan to found a home for himself and his sister as soon as possible.

Their Uncle hears of this with much indignation, and at the same time receiving a letter from Diana begging for a divorce, he announces his intention to further her purpose, and to abandon wholly Charles and Phillis, his sister, in consequence of their elder brother's conduct.

But he had set his mind on obtaining her, because she was, in every way, superior to the rest of her young companions; and because such a union would aggrandize him in the estimation of the tribe, and tend to further his views of becoming their chief.

It was hard for her to watch a growing romance and not help it along as she had done of yore; and many a time did her lips withhold the words that trembled upon themwords which would have furthered the fortunes of a worthy suitor to a waiting handbut she had resolved, and there was the end of it.

There is no good Dictionary, not even a good Index, that is not in this sense priceless, for it has honestly furthered the work of the world, saving labour to others, setting an example to successors.

What can I do to further the Royal Progress of the Church of God?

True to the policy of avoiding all unnecessary harm to the natives, these British aviators never dropped bombs on the town, butwhat was more dangerous from the Turkish point of viewthey would unload packages of pamphlets, printed in Arabic, informing the natives that they were being deceived; that the Allies were their only true friends; that the Germans were merely making use of them to further their own schemes, etc.

In whatever he did, provided that it furthered the welfare of his subjects, whether Turk, Armenian, or Arab, the whole Concert of Europe would have provided him with cash, with missionaries, with engineers, and all the resources of the arts and sciences of peace and of progress.

I was not a neutral; my first papers of American citizenship were valueless to further my escape.

There were times when Hebblethwaite had made use of his younger friend to further his own undoubted social ambitions.

" "But he looked to his rich uncle the abbot to further a certain marriage project of his.

Wisely to further this necessary organic process is a blessing to all parties; violent haste will only curb it and cause reactions.

This universally beloved gentleman put everybody under contribution in order to enrich my collections, and did all in his power to render my stay agreeable and to further my designs.

Our general scheme of education furthers mental development with considerable success.

Besides holding that virtue furthers the happiness of society, Shaftesbury makes a second mistake in assuming that human nature includes unselfish inclinations.

The railways of Sweden have incessantly spun a more and more extended network of steel over the country, opening connections for enterprises in new districts, and furthering commerce and industrial art in a wide measure.

Napoleon on his side was practically obliged to demand Savoy and Nice as a barrier against Italy, and because the acquisition of territory alone could have prevented his subjects from feeling that they had lost their lives and money only to further the aims of Victor Emmanuel.

Similarly, it is right to restrict immigration that would further economic prosperity, at the expense of the manhood of the nation.

Quite a number of eligible young men had been introduced to the house at La Bricheand had left it without having furthered their suit.

Having resolved to further his father's efforts to establish printing in Florence, he stimulated the local goldsmith, Bernardo Cennini, to turn his attention to type-casting in metal, and even agreed to pay him an annual grant from the year 1471 until he had fairly settled himself in business.

Count Mosca, the diplomatist, was the only man who could further his hopes in the one direction; his fears in the other were carefully kept alive by Rassi, the fiscal-generalto such an extent that each night the Prince looked under his bed to see if by chance a liberal were lurking there.