Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.
Adam was not the only guest invited to come upstairs on other grounds than the amount he contributed to the rent-roll.
Bold in his conceptions, he contributed powerfully to the progress of that arm and gave an immense impetus to experimental researches.
The amount to be contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources.
Several circumstances occurred immediately after this fit of Wyatt which contributed to heighten the curiosity with which I was already possessed.
Of the monastic institutions for men there is no occasion to speak, except in so far as they contributed to the intellectual advancement of woman.
The stars themselves, it seemed, contributed some part of the terrific, flowing impulse that conquered matter and shaped itself this physical expression.
Where the ball passed, not one of us precisely knew, but I fancy it must have been over our heads and that the wind of it may have contributed to our disaster.
It is this which has chiefly contributed to reduce us to a situation, which affords ample cause both of mortification to ourselves, and of triumph to our enemies.
To his friends who were frequently the objects of it, there was not perhaps any one of all his great and amiable qualities which contributed more to endear his conversation.