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Example sentences for "facility"

Lexicographically close words:
facilitating; facilitation; faciliter; facilitie; facilities; facilius; facilmente; facimus; facing; facings
  1. This again is not for any effect in itself, but only for facility and exactness.

  2. These all involve problems of skill and facility of representation.

  3. Oil for greatest certainty and facility of correction.

  4. Time was when this husband of hers, at present eluding obstacles with uncanny facility and listening intently, with the youthful zest of a boy-scout, for the excited breathing of his quarry, found life a less hilarious business.

  5. Every facility was given them for witnessing the barbarous and disgusting rite.

  6. That they also studied from the life is shown by the facility with which they seized a likeness, or rendered the characteristics and movements of different kinds of animals.

  7. The massive doors swung noiselessly at the slightest touch, meet emblem of the secrecy that prevailed, and the facility that pervaded all transactions, within.

  8. He had some facility in reading with expression, and his few affectations--for it must be confessed he was not free of such faults--were not of a nature to strike uncritical hearers.

  9. I believe some of my readers will not need this apology for Hugh; but will rather admire the facility with which he rose above a misplaced passion, and dismissed its object.

  10. It secured them command of the Adda, and gave them a strong position in the enemy's country, from whence they could operate with equal facility against Milan, Cremona, or Pavia.

  11. His facility of execution and rich colouring gained him fame, and Charles II appointed him to direct the royal tapestry works at Mortlake.

  12. The great expense of transcription, the want of facility for procuring originals, and the enormous price of manuscripts left no hope to bibliophiles of moderate fortune.

  13. The first was the facility of engraving a metal plate compared to the difficulty of cutting a wood block.

  14. As intellectual faculties strengthened, and men drew power from the past, they gained facility in moulding their Latin to their purposes.

  15. He shows the effect of the antique not so strikingly in the knowledge which he possessed or the particular opinions which he entertained, as in the balance and temperance of his views, and incidentally in his fine facility of scholarship.

  16. A similar lack of personal facility may be observed in Ruotger's biography of Bruno, the worthy brother of the great emperor Otto I.

  17. My acquaintance with French was sufficient to enable me to squander money in Paris with almost the same facility as in London.

  18. The trade from Meshed and Khorassan and Teheran, Isfahan, Yezd, and Kerman is with equal theoretical facility switched on to this place.

  19. I was rather impressed by the remarkable facility with which he could switch on extreme courteousness and severity, kindliness and contempt.

  20. They showed a great facility for learning languages, and I was shown a boy who, in a few months, had picked up sufficient English to converse quite fluently.

  21. The subject turned on dexterity and facility in feats of skill with the hand.

  22. Mendoza replied, by enlarging with much enthusiasm on the facility with which England could be conquered by the combined power of France and Spain.

  23. The means should be such, proceeding from the Provinces," said he, "as your Majesty might defend your interest therein with facility against the whole world.

  24. This decay was occasioned by the facility of producing; laziness preventing good productions, and by a satiety of the brilliant, and a taste for the whimsical.

  25. The fourth case commenced in the body, the facility of swallowing remaining.

  26. Remember this, that you cannot commit some loved sin in private, and perform the work of the ministry, in public, with facility and acceptance.

  27. CAA radio facility at Gordonsville, Virginia, had reported that they saw a "round, shiny object.

  28. Many of the reports came from people in the vicinity of the then new super-hush-hush Atomic Energy Commission facility at Savannah River, Georgia.

  29. The facility with which these rocks, when exposed to the weather, are resolved into mud, proves that, notwithstanding their antiquity, they are nearly in the state in which they were first thrown down.

  30. The coincidence of these phenomena may be attributed partly to the greater facility afforded for the escape of volatile matter, when the fracturing of the rocks has produced an infinite number of cracks and crevices.

  31. If so great a facility hath not multiplied these acts of benevolence, it is because they have been forbidden to those who had contracted debts.

  32. The very facility of my belief, which might have suggested some doubt of its sincerity, was but regarded by his innocent zeal, as a more signal triumph of the truth.

  33. But again the buoyancy of my nature prevailed, and again, the willing dupe of vain dreams, I deluded myself into the belief of all that I most wished, with that happy facility which makes imagination stand in place of happiness.


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