90 Verbs to Use for the Word might

Thus Love shall make worldlings to know his might; Thus Love shall force great princes to obey; Thus Love shall daunt each proud, rebelling spirit; Thus Love shall wreak his wrath on their decay.

The moon is pouring round me, Beneath its ray I kneel and pray That God would give some token That slavery's chains on Southern plains, Shall all ere long be broken; Yes, in the chilly night, Though slavery's chain has bound me, Kneel I, and feel the might Of God's right arm around me.

"Night-shadows now are thickening o'er the plain, The morrow's sun must see our strife again; In wrestling let us then exert our might!" He said, and eve's last glimmer sunk in night Thus as the skies a deeper gloom displayed, The stripling's life was hastening into shade!

In vain he fled to the door; its massive folds resisted mortal might.

A doubtful combat proves the warrior's might: Short is all time matched with eternity: Nought than a pleasing burden is more light.

If I but have thy command I would go (to Hastinapura) and, even as fire falling upon a heap of grass consumeth it, would slay Duryodhana, putting forth my utmost might.

She hath no might, nay, no means, no more you to grieve, Nor on your comely corses to clap once her hands.

If with a less delight he brought him home Than he that met the prodigal returned, Yet with more confidence, more certain joy; And with the leaning pride that old men feel In young strong arms that draw their might from them, He led him to the house.

Thou verily in that thou settest him ever at thy right hand cherishest the charge which once upon the mountains they say the son of Philyra gave to him of exceeding might, even to the son of Peleas, when he had lost his sire: first that of all gods he most reverence Kronos' son, the deep-voiced lord of lightnings and of thunders, and then that he never rob of like honour a parent's spell of life.

Even Satan glowered and fidged fu' fain, And hotched and blew wi' might and main; Till first ae caper, syne anither, Tam tint his reason a' thegither, And roars out, 'Weel done, Cutty-sark!'

To say of the Bible that it taboos non-co-operation is not to know Jesus, a Prince among passive resisters, who uncompromisingly challenged the might of the Sadducees and the Pharisees and for the sake of truth did not hesitate to divide sons from their parents.

A stern rivalry was now apparent in every countenance, the men pulling might and main, and without even a smile among them all.

Nature's power is seen in all Winter's Crown, or Spring-birds' call Summer's eloquent perfume, Autumn's yellow-tinted bloom Every chiselled sand grain tells Nature's might; the petal cells, Whence the bee her honey draws, Glorify Creation's laws; Things minute, or vast expanse That tires the astronomic glance.

And beholding their might and confident bearing, Beltane clenched nervous hands and his mouth grew hard and grim, so turned he from this formidable host to where, just beyond the woods, his father's banner flew beside the leopards of Mortain.

They issue out again to the conquest of the world, and it is I who have gathered the might of Islam into one hand.

"Oh Ye Gods why should my Poor resistless Heart Stand to oppose thy might and Power At last surrender to Cupid's feather'd Dart And now lays bleeding every Hour For her that's Pityless of my grief and Woes, And will not on me Pity take.

That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements.

Ah, no! infatuate with the dazzling light, In them he saw their own creative might; Nay, madly deem'd, if such their wond'rous skill, The phantom of a God 'twas theirs to will.

In the deepest and widest sense, our American history does not begin with the Declaration of Independence, or even with the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth; but it descends in unbroken continuity from the days when stout Arminius in the forests of northern Germany successfully defied the might of imperial Rome.

In the "Children of the Soul," he takes one of his principal characters upon one of seven Roman hills, and having displayed before him in the most eloquent way the might of the old Rome, the might as it never existed before and perhaps never will exist again, he says: "And from all that nothing is left only crosses!

The weather had been sultry for a fortnight’s time or more, And the shearers had been driving might and main, For some had got the century who’d ne’er got it before, And now all hands were wishing for the rain.

Putting off, moreover, for the present the communication to you of a certain secret matter which one of the chiefs of this embassy hath told me; and I am certain that when you have discovered it, you will employ all your might and means to carry out that which I propose to you.

So grant my suit, as I enforce my might, In love to be thy champion, and thy knight; A servant to thy sex, a slave to thee, A foe profess'd to barren chastity.

And the eternal Vishnu beholding Indra so depressed enhanced his might by imparting unto him a portion of his own energy.

To enlist might on the side of right, so that by means of it right may rule, is the problem of statesmanship.

90 Verbs to Use for the Word  might