We learn from him the grandeur of the moral law, but not its essence or motive-power. ❋ Archibald B. C. Alexander (N/A)
These reservoirs of force are kept perennially full by the sun and the moon, to whose action they are due, and at a future period, when men have prodigally squandered their heritage of coal and wood wealth, they will be invoked by the mechanic and manufacturer to furnish their chief motive-power. ❋ Various (N/A)
What a lot of motive-power is wasted by those who jolly other people along. ❋ Noah [pseud.] Lott (N/A)
The motive-power is water, and what the old lady wanted to know was whether the water would hold out long enough to bring her back again. ❋ Harry Furniss (N/A)
It is the root of most of the faults, vices, and crimes in the individual; and who can tell the endless disasters which will befall the State, where selfishness is the chief motive-power of the electors and the elected? ❋ P. Hampson (N/A)
She had no notion of utilising the motive-power at hand in the children. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)
General biographers, however, relying too much on the intelligence and tact of their precursors, are frequently the dupes of tradition; and the press, like other descriptions of machinery, requires a _double_ motive-power. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Surprising," because no motive-power can be presented to the eye of a citizen of the young republic without the corresponding thought of "Why not use it?" ❋ Frederic S. Cozzens (N/A)
It came by some feeble inertia left latent in it by some former motive-power, rather than was dragged up by its more degraded nags. ❋ Various (N/A)
From such a motive-power as this can come no parade of results. ❋ William Still (N/A)
Of what real value is the answer to the question, "Kind of motive-power?" in relation to manufactures unless other details are given? ❋ Various (N/A)
The one is necessary for the soaring intellect; the other for the rousing and enkindling of tremendous and indomitable motive-power. ❋ A. P. Mukerji (N/A)
Our illustration shows how and why the motive-power of the Expeditionary ❋ Various (N/A)
In Christianity we are confronted with the motive-power of a great Personality who has entered into the current of human history and ❋ Archibald B. C. Alexander (N/A)
The truth was he had at some time been temporarily in charge of a small portable or "donkey" engine, such as are used for hoisting purposes in stone quarries and in other out-of-door work, and he was incapable of recognizing the difference between the simple construction of such a machine and the complicated work in the great motive-power of the Tioga Iron Works. ❋ Various (N/A)
They saw only the results, without exactly perceiving the nature of the motive-power. ❋ John M. Schofield (N/A)
But in truth we are commonly very blind and foolish about this business of living; we lack wisdom, and we lack motive-power at the right place. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)
The cockney who owns a snoring-privilege in the suburbs will be stimulated to a sense of latent beauty in clouds and fields; and the farmer who looks on the cosmic forces as mere motive-power for the wheels of his money-mill will find the truth of the proverb, that more water runs over the dam than the miller wots of, and learn that Nature is as lavish of ❋ Various (N/A)
The all that had been gone so long came back to her, and she felt almost the pang of first separation, when it seemed as if the end of her life had been extinguished and the motive-power for work had gone. ❋ Various (N/A)
Indeed, for myself, I feel no hesitation in expressing it as my belief that electricity, in one phase or another, and controlled only by WILL, is the grand motive-power of the universe. ❋ Daniel Clark (N/A)
