with all one's might

Example Sentences

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One learns thus to trust the Bible as an inexhaustible resource and lean back upon it with all one's might.

From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by Stalker, James

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

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

For him one must endure heat and cold, hunger and thirst, and strike hard blows with all one's might, and take heed that no evil song can be made on us after we are dead.

From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

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