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Example sentences for "energies"

Lexicographically close words:
enemys; energetic; energetically; energetics; energic; energised; energising; energize; energized; energizes
  1. Alim Kuli, in the course of a few days after this reverse, arrived at Tashkent in person with a large body of troops, and employed all his energies in strengthening the defences before the return of the Russians.

  2. Hermann soon turned all his energies in the direction of philosophy.

  3. Hence the sanguineous are not easily brought into action; but, when once roused, their energies are irresistible.

  4. Death advances with rapid strides in the very ratio of the energies of life; and the surest method to attain longevity is to be sparing in the exercise of our exhausting faculties.

  5. Our genius, our energies are all affected by our mode of living.

  6. All cruciform plants degenerate within the tropics, but acquire increased energies in cold countries.

  7. Somnambulism clearly proves that the mind retains its energies in sleep.

  8. Wolfius is of opinion that every dream originates in some sensation, yet the independent energies of the mind are sufficiently displayed in the preservation of the continued phantasms of the imagination.

  9. Corporate bodies monopolizing the exercise of any profession will invariably retard instruction and shackle the energies of the student.

  10. Under this mighty influence man displays energies which lead him boldly to dare danger and complicated sufferings, or he is reduced to the most degraded state of miserable despondency.

  11. That the energies of our intellectual faculties are under the influence of our food, is a fact long since observed.

  12. At the same time, while we watch the efforts of nature, it is our duty to rouse her energies when they become torpid, or to check inordinate action which would soon exhaust her power.

  13. The powerful influence of music on our intellectual faculties, and consequently on our health, has long been ascertained, either in raising the energies of the mind, or producing despondency and melancholy associations of ideas.

  14. As the nature of our ingesta influences the functions of our digestive organs, so do these organs in their turn influence our moral powers when our physical energies are elevated or depressed.

  15. Without designing it he had struck the first blow in a fight which was to absorb his energies for the rest of his life.

  16. In the absence of a sufficient supply of important public questions to absorb the energies of the men in public life, the petty game of personal politics was playing with unusual zeal.

  17. The stern and fiery energies of a most passionate soul lie silent in the centre of his being; a trembling sensibility has been inured to stand, without flinching or murmur, the sharpest trials.

  18. From four o'clock till six they stimulate the flagging energies of boys who are comfortably tired and inclined to be drowsy.

  19. Instead, you have devoted your entire energies to interfering in the affairs of a second-class lady passenger and a bath-steward, neither of whom can be described under any circumstances as a new friend.

  20. Resistants and non-resistants have now a work to do that may task to the utmost the energies of their souls.

  21. It rose to such a height, at one time, as to threaten the extinction of the rising energies of the Church; but through the kind interposition of a gracious Providence, a reaction took place, and the wrath of man was made to praise God.

  22. Mr. Bettson's age increasing and energies declining, they agreed to invite a co-pastor.

  23. That repentance involved the ceasing to live for selfish and worldly ends, and that faith in Christ included the consecration of our energies to his service, was no part of their old creed.

  24. When a child cried it would enlist the energies of half a dozen women, with voice and gesture to quiet it.

  25. His wrongs, instead of accelerating the progress of death, seemed instantly to check its strides, while the desire of revenge so powerfully operated on his mind, that it warmed the torpid energies of decaying mortality.

  26. The gigantic frame of the Moor was convulsed, and his soul struggled fiercely to recover the lost energies of its frame.

  27. Ferdinand and Isabella, happily uniting by marriage the crowns of Arragon and Castile, consolidated the power and gave a new impulse to the energies of the Christians.

  28. Amongst that overpowering multitude might be discerned the venerable father, a lingering spark of noble fire still lurking in his dim eyes, and his withering frame receiving new energies as he gazed on the military display.

  29. Her energies were always at the service of the sufferers and the wretched of every class.

  30. Give therefore your whole energies to medicine; and in its multiplied departments you will find 'ample room and verge enough' for the most energetic as well as the most comprehensive mind.

  31. The bright eyes, however, were Puck's; and he confirmed his identity by exerting his remaining energies to give one leap gratefully to kiss the friendly face that bent over him.

  32. In the power of concentrating and keeping concentrated all the energies of attention and thought upon any given subject, consists the power of thinking strongly and successfully upon that subject.

  33. Here again, therefore, we find that in so far as we value democracy and the self-renewing energies of the west, we are much more likely to find them in the old theology than the new.

  34. The greater my labor, the greater my efforts, the more necessary would it be for me to rest, that I might rebuild and restore my weakened energies for return to further work.

  35. Who knows but that these might be the last efforts of the enemy, and once the crisis had been overcome, as in a terrible sickness, our organism might rapidly recover all its energies and its formidable character.

  36. It was the fault of the rulers as well as the ruled, that the last vital energies and the last prosperity of the nations were expended in these aimless feuds.

  37. For, while the oligarchic party were concentrating all their energies on Etruria, the democracy everywhere put forth the utmost efforts to break the blockade of Praeneste.

  38. Thirdly, we have seen it to follow from this dedication of the greater and vastly more valuable part of woman's energies to the future that, just in proportion as she serves it and devotes herself thereto, she needs present support.

  39. Just because she is now becoming a woman, her vital energies are in no small degree pledged for special purposes of the highest importance, from which we cannot possibly divert them if we desire that she shall indeed become a woman.

  40. By our constitution we human beings must devote more of our energies to the Future than any other race.

  41. His duties as managing editor of the Tribune would have taxed the energies and resources of the strongest man, for he did not spare himself to fulfil the purpose of his engagement--to make the paper "hum.

  42. Another evening they played at chess, and with her permission Roswell named the queen Miss Almira, and he bent all his energies to the capture of that particular piece.

  43. Maud gathered her energies for one supreme effort though she felt almost too stiff with cold to move.

  44. But it seems I have been misspending my energies ever since.

  45. To close the entrance, pieces of heavy timber weighted with stone were thrown down the yawning pit, and having made all chance of a return by this outlet impossible, the soldiers devoted their energies to the exploration of the building.

  46. Baffled in his purpose, he applied his energies to the task of restoring the unconscious man, bathing his forehead with water obtained from the brook.

  47. She tried to drive the horrible picture from her thoughts, and after a time succeeded; for she felt the necessity of self-control in her trying situation, and bent all her energies to that point.

  48. Mr. Copping sat on her other side, and she had tried to exchange a word or two now and then with him, but she failed in drawing out any ready response, and so she devoted all her energies to Professor Flick.

  49. It's of no use our wearing out our energies about it.

  50. In this era of arrested activities, the energies of a restless people turned otherwhere for interest.

  51. Very well, I am willing to devote certain moneys and certain energies to that purpose.

  52. Otis, to whom was given the command of all the troops in the Philippines, leaving General Merritt free to give his energies to the administrative and political problems.

  53. After the indications of war were so strong that it appeared inevitable, I devoted my time and energies to making every preparation possible.

  54. In the South of China there are two great crops in the year, that absorb the greater part of the energies of the farmers whilst they are in the fields.

  55. Enough, however, is it for us at present, that in the domain, both of the material and the mental, there is ample scope for the highest energies and the most enlightened reason.

  56. Upon her removal from London to Stoke Fleming, near Dartmouth, Devon, which took place in consequence of protracted indisposition; her energies were still employed in the service of her Redeemer, and of His Church.

  57. It is the natural yearning of active powers for appropriate activity--the mind's impulse to develope its energies and extend its dominion.

  58. When he has chased you round his room, and has blown sparks at you, and has snorted and howled, and cracked his tail, and snapped his jaws like a pair of anvils, your energies will be toned up higher than ever before in your life.

  59. I was told that if I went in there I should get my energies toned up, and they need it very much; but I did not feel equal to entering by myself, and I thought I would wait until some one came along.

  60. His energies must have been toned up a good deal," said the Bee-man.

  61. I came," said the Languid Youth, "to have my energies toned up.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "energies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.