12347 examples of tend in sentences

" "The life and character of Howard, if they are justly considered, may not only annihilate this pernicious prejudice, but tend to establish an opposite and consolatory truth.

These conditions give rise to a meadowy vegetation, whose extending roots still more obstruct the free flow of the waters, and tend to dissipate them out over a yet wider area.

And I hold, with Sydney Smith, and with that keen practical philosopher, Becky Sharpe, that happiness and success tend very greatly to make people passably good.

Seven times a day they reposed them in their journey, so that the women might nourish the babe, and bathe and tend him duly.

It has been said that sinning is very much a matter of temptation, and in reducing those temptations, as we believe General Booth's scheme will largely tend to do, we shall be able to reduce in quantity, if we cannot hope to cause altogether to cease, the frightful holocaust of human victims that is annually offered up at this dark shrine.

And why then dost thou shrink from me, as though I were a thing of terror: I, who ask for nothing but to tend thee all my life?

" That evening Black Jack called upon the handy-man to help with the clean-up, and put him to tend the water while he and Denny, under the watchful eye of the owner's representative, lifted the riffles, worked down the concentrates, and removed them from the boxes.

The studies of the naturalist, exclusively pursued, may tend to make a man too conscious and critical,patronizing Nature, instead of enjoying her.

Management and compromise appear among the permitted arts, because they tend to comfort, and comfort is the end of ends, comprehending all ends.

Equal laws and equal liberty at home appear to them saucy claims of the poor and the vulgar, which tend to divest riches of one of the greatest charms, over-bearing dominion.

Does a London life tend to quicken the moral pulse and expand the heart?

To which end I shall, (1) endeavor the conviction of the guilty; (2) shall give them such considerations as may tend to humble and reform them; (3) I shall conclude with such direction as may help them that are willing to escape the destroying power of this sin.

Because one of the effects of those sounds and signs which we call language is to stimulate in us a process of deliberate logical thought we tend to ignore all their other effects.

From the beginning of the existence and activity of a party new associations are, however, being created which tend to take the place, in association, of the original meaning of the name.

When a molecule is acted on by various forces, a resultant motion is unquestionably produced, but this would only tend to send the molecule forward and back in one direction, and, in fact, a direction it might have taken in the first place if hit properly.

These conclusions, which tend to nothing less than to limit the reign of the steam engine, are confirmed on the one hand by an experiment carried on for the last two years in the Barataud flour mill of Marseilles, where a 50 h.p.

I promised, you know, when I became a Fire Maker, to tend 'The fire that is called the love of man for man,' and one cannot do that and live luxuriously on money that one has wrung from the poor instead of earning honestly.

When Mr. Baron, Marco's father, put Marco under his cousin Forester's care, it was his intention that he should spend a considerable part of his time in traveling, and in out-of-door exercises, such as might tend to re-establish his health and strengthen his constitution.

It was customary, however, to organize only one half of them into an army, while the rest remained at home to till the ground and tend the flocks and herds.

The Spirit of God, in those convictions which unregenerate men sometimes have, assist conscience to do this work in a further degree than it would do if they were left to themselves: He helps it against those things that tend to stupify it, and obstruct its exercise.

His irritation did not tend to modify the severity of his moral judgments.

"The constituent elements of the body sooner or later break into open rebellion, and tend to fly from each other as if filled with mutual horror.

Having never seen the blue smile of the bay of Naples, he suggested that the sea was an object of terror; forgetful of the monotonous setting of pastoral verse, he complained that the piscatory life offered little variety; finally, he contended that the technicalities of the craft were unfamiliar to readersbut are we to suppose that the learned author of the Rambler was competent to tend a flock?

Perhaps our readers, their memory disturbed by such a number of various matters as we have since presented to them, may have forgotten that project, but what is about to follow will tend to revive their recollection.

Voir tout à coup à une fenêtre un vieillard, une femme qui tend vers vous les bras, en s'écriant!

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