It had been agreed that the construction of the vessel should be actively pushed forward, and Cyrus Harding more than ever devoted his time and labor to this object.
You have devoted yourselves to the common weal.
He forthwith devoted his talents and wealth to the service of this cause.
This work finished, every moment was devoted to finishing the schooner.
Chapter 12 The next day, the 18th of February, was devoted to the exploration of all that wooded region forming the shore from Reptile End to Falls River.
The harvest was completed, and the last fortnight of the month of November was devoted to the work of converting it into food for man.
Wild duck, snipe, teal and grebe abounded there, and it was agreed that a day should be devoted to an expedition against these birds.
Chapter 8 The first week of January was devoted to the manufacture of the linen garments required by the colony.
Every day, the reporter and Herbert, who had been voted purveyors to the colony, devoted some hours to the chase.
In the meanwhile Captain Harding was rejoined by a servant who was devoted to him in life and in death.
So it was laid away for repairs, and its disappointed maker devoted his energies to helping Jack keep Bun in order; for that indomitable animal got out of every prison they put him in, and led Jack a dreadful life during that last week.
"Time's up; fall to and make yourselves comfortable," was the summary way in which the club was released from its sterner duties and permitted to unbend its mighty mind for a social half-hour, chiefly devoted to whist, with an Indian war-dance as a closing ceremony.
Now Jill made one great mistake at the outset—she forgot that she was the one to be converted to good manners and gentleness, and devoted her efforts to looking after Jack, finding it much easier to cure other people's faults than her own.
The boys fell to comparing skates, balls, and cuff-buttons on the spot, while the little ones devoted all their energies to eating everything eatable they could lay their hands on.
In summer, the boys devoted themselves to baseball, the girls to boating, and all got rosy, stout, and strong, in these healthful exercises.
Hobbs said it would—if he could not get an entire volume devoted to earls.
You need not be devoted to the arts, not to literature, in order to live fully.
On the other hand, he entered with all the comprehension of a man who had known spiritual conflict, and lived through years of devoted service to his fellow-men, into that state of Maggie's heart and conscience which made the consent to the marriage a desecration to her; her conscience must not be tampered with; the principle on which she had acted was a safer guide than any balancing of consequences.
She had been well pleased that he had devoted himself to Lucy to-day, and had not come near her.
If you think a lad of thirteen would not have been so childish, you must be an exceptionally wise man, who, although you are devoted to a civil calling, requiring you to look bland rather than formidable, yet never, since you had a beard, threw yourself into a martial attitude, and frowned before the looking-glass.
