But here the danger held potentialities if not the certainty of painpain, it might be, not for one alone.

At the time, however, these represented only potentialities and not tangible realities.

The lips were rather full than otherwise; one saw in them potentialities of heroic passion, and tenderness, and generosity, and, if you will, temper.

Just consider its potentialities!

Although it was no more than just possible, he cuddled the potentiality to him as if it had been a purring kitten.

It is characteristic that Berkeley, in his Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, does not indulge the fancy that the wilderness is of itself uplifting; it requires, he assumes, the aid of human culture and wisdom,"the rise of empire and of arts,"to develop its potentialities.

He did not see how the migration to the North would diminish the potentiality of the Negro in politics, for Massachusetts first elected Negroes to her General Court, Ohio had nominated a Negro representative and Illinois another.

We had been totally spoiled for our proper sphere, and could not get into a better; the indifference of our inferiors mortified us, and the familiarity of our equals disgusted usour potentiality was gone, and we were so much degraded that a puppy of a fellow had the impertinence to ask Jenny if she was going to one of the Old Ship balls.

"On the contrary, I have found you both amusing and instructive, and I only spoke when I had exhausted your potentialities as a silent entertainer.

For education consists in large measure in supplying the stimuli necessary to set going these potentialities and of affording opportunity for their expression.

Yes, women were wanting the ballot because it included potentiality, and in potentiality is happiness.

But in that innocent-looking tube lay vast potentialities for evilnay, devilish certainties of dealing death and destruction.

It requires an expert eye to perceive the potentialities of a puppy, and there is always an element of speculative risk for both buyer and seller.

The North was annually acquiring thousands of immigrants who came at their own expense, who worked zealously for wages payable from current earnings, and who possessed all the inventive and progressive potentialities of European peoples.

It seems probable, therefore, that long before the first two volumes were completed Sterne had discovered the artistic possibilities of "My Uncle Toby" and "Corporal Trim," and had realized the full potentialities of humour contained in the contrast between the two brothers Shandy.

An infinite energy required a resisting or doggedly indifferent material, itself quasi infinite, to take the impression of its life, and render potentiality into power.

Even the Master himself, tempered in the fires of war's Hell, sensed this tremendous potentiality of death as the tiny handful of white men galloped on and on behind Bara Miyan.

" Lord Lucan tells a very good story, that when the sale of Thrale's brewery was going forward, Johnson appeared bustling about with an inkhorn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman, and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

I. If I am sensitive to and absorb the various potentialities of my age, am I not of necessity a power? Conscience.

When I had paid my examination and registration fees the coffer was absolutely empty, and though, no doubt, a medical diploma containsto use Johnson's phrasethe potentiality of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, there is a vast difference in practice between the potential and the actual.

Thus the conception which was at first only vaguely recognized is restored to the objective mind in a definite and workable form, and then the objective mind, acting through the frontal brainthe area of comparison and analysisproceeds to work upon a clearly perceived idea and to bring out the potentialities that are latent in it.

Each man or woman carries this potentiality of a double lifeit is only a question of less or more.