37128 examples of forces in sentences

Will they not remember the Southern bondman, in whom the love of freedom is as inherent as in themselves; and will they not, when contending for equal rights, use their mighty forces "to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free?"

He very soon began to gather his forces for another attack upon me, and followed the same direction for his accusation,the land purchase.

He stuck to his circumvallation, kept seizing provender as was convenient, and sent after other forces from home.

[-7-] Accordingly Caesar, who bethought himself that because of the nature of the land he could not force them to come into close quarters unless they chose, started toward Thapsus, in order that either they might come to the help of the city and so engage his forces, or, if they neglected it, he might capture the place.

Everyone she knows is either perfectly delightful or else entirely intolerable; and thus she converts what would seem to many people a confined and narrow sphere of action into a stormy and generous clash of great forces.

And why?' 'Because,' she said modestly, 'I do not love you, my lord.' 'Oh, butbut when we are married,' he answered eagerly, rallying his scattered forces, 'when we are one, sweet maid' 'That time will never come,' she replied cruelly.

This division into two and reconciliation into one, this clash of forces resulting in life, is, as Patmore points out in words curiously reminiscent of those of Boehme, at the root of all existence.

Nature goes on giving echoes of the same living triplicity in animal, plant, and mineral, every stone and material atom owing its being to the synthesis or "embrace" of the two opposed forces of expansion and contraction.

At any rate, de Quindre agreed to march his forces peaceably off when it was concluded.

p. 253, return of forces on Dec. 24th.

"Now for years I have been seeking that force or combination of forces that would enable me to produce this change in the elementsraising or lowering them in the scale, so to speak.

Then I thought to clinch the matter by a telepagram, but for some reason or other I failed to consult the forces I control as to the wisdom of doing so.

In England, immediately after the Norman conquest, two general forces are confronted, those, to wit, of the two peoples.

The unity which springs from community of interests and from junction of forces amongst equals becomes a counter-poise to the unity of the sovereign power.

He, being informed of the approach of the crusaders, had issued forth, to go and assemble all his forces; but he had left behind his wife, his children, and his treasures, and he had sent messengers to the inhabitants, saying, "Be of good courage, and fear not the barbarous people who make show of besieging our city; to-morrow, before the seventh hour of the day, ye shall be delivered from your enemies."

He presented himself before Edessa with merely a hundred horsemen, having left the remainder of his forces in garrison at the town he had already occupied.

An old Mussulman warrior, celebrated at that time throughout Western Asia, Corbogha, sultan of Mossoul (hard by what was ancient Nineveh), commanded all the hostile forces, and four days after the capture of Antioch he was already completely round the place, enclosing the crusaders within the walls of which they had just become the masters.

They decided upon the siege of Damascus, the most important and the nearest of the Mussulman princedoms in Syria, and in the early part of June they moved thither with forces incomplete and ill united.

News came that the Emirs of Aleppo and Mossoul were coming, with considerable forces, to the relief of the place.

Philip set vigorously to work to push on the siege; but at his departure he had promised Richard not to deliver the grand assault until they had formed a junction before the place with all their forces.

There was needed a man to body these scattered elements, to fuse the forces of the nation into a personality, to live the dreams which a race had visioned.

Thenceforward it slowly assimilated the vital forces and nutritive elements of the organic life within which it grew, until the hour arrived when it burst the maternal womb, a perfect birth.

7. The Bible thus inspires a buoyancy and exhilaration which feed the fresh forces of all noble life.

In the stress and strain of conflict, when the air is dimmed with the dust of the contending forces and the vision grows confused, it is a saving sound to hear the ringing call of Duty, from the hills where One watcheth over the battlefield.

They appear as in no wise violations of law, but as the manifestations of nature's laws and forces worked by the normal man, having 'dominion' over the earth.

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