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Example sentences for "raise them"

  • I do not know whether any of our fine varieties of blackberries are cultivated abroad, but I am perfectly certain that they are worthy of the slight attention required to raise them in perfection here.

  • I am often told, "It is cheaper to buy fruit and vegetables than to raise them.

  • I find it much easier to buy my plants, when ready for them, than to raise them.

  • The assemblies, every year during the war, voted considerable sums, and formed bills to raise them.

  • And this too is true of those growths, which, by their nature and the labour required to raise them, come the nearest to manufactures.

  • What have we done to raise them up from the earth?

  • Their objects are "to help the poor to help themselves, and to raise them by making them feel that they can help themselves.

  • He can lend a more active helping hand to raise them.

  • It is only by practising the principles of self-dependence that they can achieve dignity, stability, and consideration in society; or that they can acquire such influence and power as to raise them in the scale of social well-being.

  • So also, we at times laugh at the sagacity shown by the lower animals, which seems not so much to raise them in our estimation as to lower them by occasioning a comparison with the superior powers of man.

  • Probably the respectable and quiet character of the labouring classes has contributed to raise them in the estimation of the richer part of the community.

  • Who will be thy successor to raise them in thy absence?

  • I should be very loath to raise them to so great a value; I would treat them precisely the same as Continental money.

  • In all those states where cotton and sugar are raised for exportation, it is, for the most part, more profitable to buy provisions for the slaves than to raise them.

  • To buy slaves when nearly grown, from the northern slave states, would be cheaper than to raise them.

  • As such would require much nursing, the time, trouble and expense necessary to raise them, would generally be more than they would be worth as working animals.

  • Raise them up, then, to such heights that no amount of tribulation will keep them back from Thy wondrous remembrance, nor any trouble hinder them from turning toward the court of Thy transcendent oneness.

  • Raise them up, moreover, to such heights as will enable them to perceive Thy Call.

  • Raise them up, O my God, to such heights that they will recognize in all things the tokens of the power of Him Who is the Manifestation of Thy most august and all-glorious Self.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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