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in one's power





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To what a gigantic growth the temptation must rush up each time that one thinks she is utterly in one's power!

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.

To agree to pray is a hearty promise also to do all in one's power to work with the Lord.

From Health, Healing, and Faith by Conwell, Russell H.

There is not only no credit at the present day in wishing so much, but it is discreditable not to do what lies in one's power to further its accomplishment.

From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Overmaster, ō-vėr-mas′tėr, v.t. to subdue, to govern: to get and keep in one's power.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

But, to be insulted and defied by a rebel in one's power, what prince can bear that?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Richardson, Samuel




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