with all one's might

Example Sentences

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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

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

One must be truthful and wish to be good with all one's might, too.

From Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Calderon, George

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

He had a strong belief, which grew in intensity with age, that the only chance of realising one's true life was to do something that interested one with all one's might.

From Beside Still Waters by Benson, Arthur Christopher