with all one's might

Example Sentences

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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

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)

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