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

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 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

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

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

From Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Calderon, George