325 collocations for perfects

He told me he had been fifteen years perfecting this great work, in which time it had been twice blown up by accidents, arising from the carelessness or mismanagement of the workmen; but that he now expected it would repay him for the time and money he had expended.

The work progressed unevenlynobles in different governments differed in plan and aiman assembly of delegates was brought together at St. Petersburg to combine and perfect a resultant plan under the eye of the Emperor.

A special American Commission, headed by Colonel Edward M. House, personal friend and trusted adviser of President Wilson, arrived in London on November 8, on its way to attend the Allies' conference which met in Paris November 22, to perfect a system of co-ordination among the nations at war with Germany and secure a better understanding of their respective needs.

In 1876, Alfred Nobel had perfected his invention of dynamite gum.

They were indefatigable in their search for new methods and in working out and perfecting fresh schemes, and they kept their minds open to new ideas.

In that brief time, he perfected his art and wrote poems that rank among the greatest of their kind, and that have influenced the work of many succeeding poets, such as Tennyson, Lowell, and Swinburne.

The idea of such a happy death, such a sweet transition, from the dreams of earth to the realities of heaven, is thus beautifully described by Dryden, in his poem entitled Eleonora: "She passed serenely, with a single breath; This moment perfect health, the next was death; One sigh did her eternal bliss assure; So little penance needs when souls are pure.

After Buddha had attained to perfect wisdom, and in travelling about with his disciples arrived at this spot, he informed them that this was the place where he ransomed the dove with a piece of his own flesh.

Just before sunrise all the dispositions were completed, the gallant Nicholson, under whose orders we were, moving from point to point to perfect his arrangements.

Photinius's conceptions of mischief were less refined; he perfected his toxicological knowledge in the medical laboratory of the monastery, and sought eagerly for an opportunity of employing it; whether in an experiment upon the Emperor, or on his own successor, or on some other personage, circumstances must determine.

When he awoke Sunday morning and thought it all over, it seemed to him that he had never been so near to perfect happiness in all his life before.

" After the continuance of this heroic struggle for more than five years, Morse found himself compelled to seek the aid of more accomplished mechanical skill than he possessed, to perfect his apparatus, and was obliged to surrender a quarter interest in his invention in order to obtain pecuniary aid for this purpose.

In the present instance those foremost in perfecting the organization have also been foremost in asserting that the players' organization's principal aim is to co-operate with the club owners.

They have got out of Christendom into the landwhat shall I call it?of cuckoldrythe Utopia of gallantry, where pleasure is duty, and the manners perfect freedom.

They talked it over for a time, perfecting the details, and then became as calm and composed as a group of prisoners might.

Most true, unless "we believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ," "perfect God and perfect man."

To do the will of the Almighty is the way to perfect holiness.

many, departing from their territories, committed themselves and all their possessions to perfect strangers.

We passed through many sad scenes together, but I cannot remember that there was ever aught but perfect harmony between us.

[Footnote 4: 'or be quits with Laertes the third bout':in any case, whatever the probabilities, even if Hamlet be wounded, the king, who has not perfect confidence in the 'unction,' will fall back on his second line of ambushin which he has more trust: he will drink to Hamlet, when Hamlet will be bound to drink also.]

Ericsson wilfully handicapped himself in this manner, and might unquestionably have more effectively improved and perfected his ideas had he been disposed to combine with his designs at the drawing-board practical contact with his work as constructed.

To spend too much time in them is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are themselves perfected by experience; crafty men contemn them, wise men use them, simple men admire them; for they teach not their own use, but that there is a wisdom without them and above them won by observation.

To the chief priests and scribes, who hearing the children crying out the Saviour's praise in the temple, Christ said "Yea, have you not read 'Out of the mouths of infants and sucklings thou hast perfected praise'" (St. Matth.

The Allies perfected the machine and turned it on the enemy with great success, and the Germans did not like their own medicine.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity.

325 collocations for  perfects