with all one's might

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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