Sentence Examples

1. The propelling principle, or power, was here, also, applied to interrupted surfaces, or vanes, put in revolution.
2. In him some vital principle have in strange way found their utmost and as his body keep strong and grow and thrive, so his brain grow too.
3. To accomplish the great desideratum of ærial navigation, it was very generally supposed that some exceedingly complicated application must be made of some unusually profound principle in dynamics.
4. It is through the spirit of this principle, if not precisely through its letter, that modern science has resolved to calculate upon the unforeseen.
5. We were right in principle, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred we should have proved, by the logic of events, the accuracy of our judgment.
6. On the other hand, you are bound by every principle of honor to confess all you know.
7. Upon this we gave nine hearty cheers, and dropped in the sea a bottle, enclosing a slip of parchment with a brief account of the principle of the invention.
8. An indefinite sense of awe, which at first sight of the navigators of the ship had taken hold of my mind, was perhaps the principle of my concealment.
9. And this steadfast adherence to principle, with rigorous disregard of the conflicting exception, is a sure mode of attaining the maximum of attainable truth, in any long sequence of time.
10. The little bird, the little fish, the little animal learn not by principle, but empirically and when he learn to do, then there is to him the ground to start from to do more.