"I did not think of comparing you: such power of persevering devoted labor as Mr.
I have devoted myself to this object of hospital-improvement, but I will boldly confess to you, Mr.
Here was something beyond the shallows of ladies' school literature: here was a living Bossuet, whose work would reconcile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint.
She proved herself not only a capable, but a devoted nurse.
They seemed devoted to one another.
"While you were riding about the country in expensive motor-cars, and galloping proudly on blood-horses, and breakfasting on the fat of the land, those two poor devoted animals have been camping out in the open, in every sort of weather, living very rough by day and lying very hard by night; watching over your house, patrolling your boundaries, keeping a constant eye on the stoats and the weasels, scheming and planning and contriving how to get your property back for you.
He looked ashamed and entreating, like a guilty but devoted dog.
He would have adored a sister and spoilt a mother, and was beginning at this time to think of marrying; for though he had been very happy with his various loves, each of whom, contrary to the usual experience, turned ultimately into his devoted friend, he was fond of children and thought he had perhaps now got to the age of settling if he did not wish to be too old by the time his eldest son was twenty.
For one, he was very devoted to his mother, and that was sufficiently odd to deserve notice.
Then he would betake himself to that ravishing, radiant roadway devoted to Thespis, Thais, and Bacchus.
" "Those of a devoted son, Wendy.
The rest of the balance of housing money is devoted to utilities, household supplies, furniture, and appliances.
It is devoted to a sophisticated, seductive, and dazzling woman, which at the same time strives to simplicity.
She was a dedicated and devoted Christian.
He reinterpreted Euclid's Elements in his Jihe tongjie ("Complete Explanation of Geometry"), by reference to the chapter devoted to right-angled triangles in Jiuzhang suanshu (Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Procedtcres), a mathematical classic completed during the Han Dynasty.
Yan Fu devoted all his life to the publicity of the ideology of enlightenment.
The second extant book of Zhao, Xian Fo tongyuan ("On the Common Origins of [the Teachings of] Transcendentals and Buddhas"), is devoted to the so-called "Inner Alchemy," an esoteric discipline focusing on the attainment of immortality via respiratory and meditative practices.
He devoted himself to observing and calculating the orbits of minor planets and comets.
During retirement Lu devoted most of his poetry to the appreciation and praise of rural life.
A life devoted to one thing is a stunted life, while a pluralistic life is an abundant one.