1 Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
2 There was always scope for fear so long as anything I loved remained behind.
3 She possessed an art that sufficed, even in a land that afforded comparatively little scope for its exercise, to supply food for her thriving infant and herself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 4 We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 5 It will be of far wider scope, and will touch on almost all questions.
6 It afforded scope for the full exercise of all his powers, and he seemed to be perfectly at home in it.
7 Certain it was that he gave her unlimited scope in all her benevolent efforts for the comfort, instruction, and improvement of her servants, though he never took any decided part in them himself.
8 It gives too free scope to the passions, altogether, which, in our climate, are hot enough.
9 The first step in the direction of truth is to understand the frame and scope of the intellect itself, to comprehend the act itself of intellection.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 10 The first step in the direction of beauty is to understand the frame and scope of the imagination, to comprehend the act itself of esthetic apprehension.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 11 How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope.
12 Give him his scope in this matter, for thou canst not control him.
13 I may not deny," said the Prior, crossing himself, "that such things have been, and have been of Heaven; but then such communications have had a visibly useful scope and tendency.
14 The scope of the society's work was to be extensive: it was to bring lasting happiness to humanity at large, from the banks of the Thames to the shores of Kamtchatka.
15 I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of genius.