62 examples of vires in sentences

Phr. vires acquirit eundo [Lat.]

Blut und Eisen [G.]; coelitus mihi vires [Lat.]; du fort au diable [Fr.]; en habiles gens [Lat.]; ex vi termini; flecti non frangi [Lat.]; he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill

the steam is up; vires acquirit eundo [Lat.]; the race by vigor not by vaunts is won [Pope].

Phr. vires acquirit eundo [Lat.]; I'll put a girdle about the earth in forty minutes

And although the question be very obscure, according to Postellus, "full of controversy and ambiguity," beyond the reach of human capacity, fateor excedere vires intentionis meae, saith Austin, I confess I am not able to understand it, finitum de infinito non potest statuere, we can sooner determine with Tully, de nat.

Long journeys, Magnum iter intendo, sed dat mihi gloria vires, "I contemplate a monstrous journey, but the love of glory strengthens me for it," gaining honour, a little applause, pride, self-love, vainglory.

4. which if [2350]"they could neglect and contemn, would not come to pass," Eorum vires nostra resident opinione, ut morbi gravitas ?grotantium cogitatione, they are intended and remitted, as our opinion is fixed, more or less.

Yea, but I may not, I cannot, In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, I am in the extremity of human adversity; and as a shadow leaves the body when the sun is gone, I am now left and lost, and quite forsaken of the world.

"Flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus, Frangis si vires experire tuas.

Animarum crudele tormentum, dolor inexplicabilis, tinea non solum ossa, sed corda pertingens, perpetuus carnifex, vires animae consumens, jugis nox, et tenebrae profundae, tempestas et turbo et febris non apparens, omni igne validius incendens; longior, et pugnae finem non habensCrucem circumfert dolor, faciemque omni tyranno crudeliorem prae se fert.

Quidam maxime comedere nituntur, putantes ea ratione se vires refecturos; ignorantes, non ea quae ingerunt posse vires reficere, sed quae probe concoquunt.

Instutitur ista exercitatio, non lucri, sed valetudinis et oblectamenti ratione, et quo animus defatigatus respiret, novasque vires ad subeundos labores denuo concipiat. 3297.

Hispani cum Anglorum vires ferre non possent, in fugam se dederunt, &c. Praecipites in fluvium se dederunt, ne in hostium manus venirent.

Non sine summa cautio ne hoc remedio utemur; est enim validissimum, et quum vires Antimonii contemnit morbus, in auxilium evocatur, modo valide vires efflorescant.

Non sine summa cautio ne hoc remedio utemur; est enim validissimum, et quum vires Antimonii contemnit morbus, in auxilium evocatur, modo valide vires efflorescant.

Millies horum vires expertus sum.

Citius et efficacius suas vires exercet quam solent decocta ac diluta in quantitate multa, et magna cum assumentium molestia desumpta.

In tota rerum natura nihil forma divinius, nihil augustius, nihil pretiosius, cujus vires hinc facile intelliguntur, &c. 4818.

Interea, ne paupertate vires animi languescant, nec in flagitia egestas abigat, cavendum.

cum vires et animi et corporis multa pollicerentur, anno MDCCXXXVII.

And the motto of Bayard, Vires agrainis unus habet, was given him after singly defending a bridge against two hundred Spaniards.

In mea vesanas habui dispendia vires, Et valui pænam fortis in ipse meain.

de sucre, un faucon pélerin et deux arbalètes, avec une douzaine de vires.

'Et neq; jam color est misto candore rubori; Nec Vigor, et Vires, et quæ modò visa placebant; Nec Corpus remanet ...' Ov. 'Met.'

627 written in 1518 and referring to his embassy to the Sultan of Egypt upon which he set out in the autumn of 1501, occurs the following: ...quatuor et quadraginta tunc annos agebam, octo decem superadditi vires illas hebetarunt.

62 examples of  vires  in sentences