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Example sentences for "work which"

  • There were forces at work which, without his intervention, would probably have made an end of the despotic amities of 1815.

  • Your own personal qualities, your knowledge and your power of administration, and among greater things your rank and position in Society give you advantages in such a work which no other person possesses.

  • Thus, then, three months after her return from the Crimean War, broken in bodily health, was this indomitable woman thrown into the maelstrom of work which will be described in the next chapter.

  • A celebrated woman, in a work which I hope will some day be published, remarks truly that everything a woman does is done at odd times.

  • He has a clear head and good sense, but I think he is over-powered by the amount of work which Panmure by the simple process of never attempting to do it found so easy.

  • With youthful ardour he begs of a veteran author to be allowed the privilege of publishing, as his first undertaking, a work which he himself genuinely admired.

  • Sir, I have at length completed a work which I wish to submit to your consideration.

  • It were cruel indeed not to perfect a work which contains so much that is excellent.

  • We have thus a work which is productive of effect; but an alarmingly painful effect, equally repugnant to humanity, philosophy, and religious feeling.

  • This somewhat detracts from the value of a work which must be admitted to rest, in respect to materials, on the soundest historical basis.

  • The French government has done good service by the publication of a work which contains so much for the illustration of the history of the sixteenth century.

  • In supposing that forces have been at work which tend to make the lord responsible for the taxes of his men, we are not without a warrant in the ancient dooms.

  • I was born to this fate; if I die, I die in a work which, unless I am mistaken, is not altogether a bad one.

  • Nevertheless, in descending, at least nine tenths of the precipitation returns to the fluid state, and does the kind of work which we have noted in our account of water.

  • And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

  • The Aitareya-brĂ¢hmana, containing the earliest speculations of the Brahmans on the meaning of their sacrificial prayers, and the purport of their ancient religious rites, is a work which could be properly edited nowhere but in India.

  • The death of Burnouf in 1851, put an end to a work which, if finished according to the plan sketched out by the author in the preface, would have been the most perfect monument of Oriental scholarship.

  • Ambrogio in Milan, a work which may be pronounced equal in point of style to the finest specimens of the dittici, or small ivory altar-pieces, that the museums of sacred art can boast.

  • Sepolcro, a work which produces a fine illusion; the legs of the Redeemer, in whatever point they are viewed, appearing with equal advantage to the eye.

  • The amount of work which he got through in this way was something incredible.

  • Three years later he probably heard Gluck's "Iphigenie en Tauride," a work which in his estimation eclipsed them all.

  • It is a work which cannot be done by them as a class.

  • Dr Grosart is chiefly remembered for his exertions in reprinting much rare Elizabethan literature, a work which he undertook in the first instance from his strong interest in Puritan theology.

  • Greuze wished to be received as a historical painter, and produced a work which he intended to vindicate his right to despise his qualifications as a peintre de genre.

  • A work which is not merely interesting but is most valuable.

  • One of my first works as prior was to organize a work which we had very gladly undertaken--that of ministering as naval chaplains to ships in Scottish waters.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    essentially different; extracted from; fair maid; fourth year; galvanized iron; great sign; laughed heartily; took another; work again; work and; work done; work entitled; work force; work from; work hard; work should; work till; work upon; work with; worked from; working away; working drawings; working girls; working miracles; working order; working party