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

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

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

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