with all one's might

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If the object be thrown on the floor with all one's might, the result will be the same; its elasticity will always cause it to spring back to its original form.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 by Various

One has to fight it with all one's might, otherwise one might be blown down the mountain side like a bird.

From Cornelli by Spyri, Johanna

If such a condition is consummately miserable, the moral is to shun vice, and strive after virtue with all one's might.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

With her it was better to have striven with all one's might and encountered disaster than to have lived fallow, a life of the most perfect rectitude.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Cullum, Ridgwell

Though I'd joyously have flung myself before you To adore you, Still to sit with all one's might upon the ice Isn't nice.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891 by Various