with all one's might

Example Sentences

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False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs.

From Stories from Tagore by Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

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

From Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Calderon, George

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