177 examples of illimitable in sentences

But what I hope I have in some measure made clear is that there is a reason why Christ should be manifested, and should suffer, and rise again, and that so far from being a baseless superstition the Reconciling of the world to God through the One Offering once-for-all offered for the sin of the whole world, lays the immovable foundation upon which we may build securely for all the illimitable future.

To right and left, and behind, lay the forestthat silent land of the North, illimitable as space, everlastingly green when the snows had melted, shadowy, mysterious, terrible!

Every leaf which drops from the bough, to return again into its gases and its dust, is working out chemical problems which have puzzled a Boyle and a Lavoisier, and about which a Liebig and a Faraday will now tell you that they have but some dim guess, and that they stand upon the threshold of knowledge like (as Newton said of himself) children gathering a few pebbles, upon the shore of an illimitable sea.

To them the heavens illimitable hight (Not this round heaven which we from hence behold, Adornd with thousand lamps of burning light, And with ten thousand gemmes of shyning gold) 60 He gave as their inheritance to hold, That they might serve him in eternall blis, And be partakers of those ioyes of his.

But this is the zone of illimitable sun-force, which destroys as swiftly as it generates, and generates again as swiftly as it destroys.

It was the sensation of being borne aloftaloftby a force external to myselfsuch a sensation as might possibly tingle through an earthworm when lifted into illimitable airy heights by the strongly-daring pinions of an eagle.

Beneath the vast illimitable spaces Where God has set His jewels in array, A man may pitch his tent in desert places Yet know that heaven is not so far away.

To confine the illimitable!

Dare to will; and behind the crumbling walls of this spurious Destiny, you will once more behold the sun and the illimitable horizon.

How Simpson found his way alone by the lake and forest might well make a story in itself, for to hear him tell it is to know the passionate loneliness of soul that a man can feel when the Wilderness holds him in the hollow of its illimitable handand laughs.

This priest, browned by the sun, old before his years through disappointment, almost bent beneath the load of his secret troubles, was different from the young and brilliant curate, who, full of hope had launched himself formerly into the illimitable future.

Exactly how many thousands of feet there were Angela refused to be told, for the distance seemed illimitable, and cold facts might dwarf imagination.

Dead servants (in profusion), struggling horses, the coach upset, and the harvest moon, are depicted in the back scene, which represents besides an illimitable heath, and a gibbet in the middle distance: all this under a glare of light, as indeed it might well be, for the moon is quite as large as the hind wheel of the coach.

The spiritual, it is true, is illimitable, but the actual is the measure of that part of which we are made conscious.

Patrick Henry said: "Shall we be told, when about to grant such illimitable authority, that it will never be exercised?

In that timein all that time, I have never seen the glorious sun descend, but followed still its rolling course through the regions of illimitable space.

Such a temper elevates the spirit, while it enlarges the heart, and everything which, under the influence of it, people do and undertake, has a tendency toward the illimitable.

There upon the silent earth with its sunshine and its illimitable distances, it seemed very much a part of the whole.

The prospect in that direction is apparently as illimitable as from the shore of an ocean.

To a spectator looking down upon mile after mile of such pasture land in summer from an elevation it resembles a park of illimitable extent.

The Atlantic stretches in illimitable blue, curved round the rim of the sky, a darker mirror of the blue above.

I was weary of spiritual passion, and this great exaltation of the body above the soul at once conquered and led me captive; this plain scorn of a world as exemplified in lacerated saints and a crucified Redeemer opened up to me illimitable prospects of fresh beliefs, and therefore new joys in things and new revolts against all that had come to form part and parcel of the commonalty of mankind.

It spread like an illimitable ocean in soundless billows out of which weird rocks stood upa dream-world of fantastic possibilities, but petrified into stillness by the spell of its solitudesa world that once surely had thrilled with magic and now was dead.

For was not this ship our world, penned in as we were on every side, and separated from all else by an ocean inexorable and illimitable as space, and were not we likewise looking forward to a fiery doomour finite, perhaps final, day of judgment?

Do you not realize that you are attempting to place a limit upon Nature, which in reality is illimitable?

177 examples of  illimitable  in sentences