Word Finder - everything

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All the things under discussion.

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I checked the list again and everything is done.

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Many or most things.

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A:What do you want to do at the amusement park? B:Everything!

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A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).

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She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.

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Considerable effort.

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It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.

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The most important thing.

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I can't believe I made it in time - timing is everything!

Everything is going fine with the house.

I have everything packed.

Everything was going to be all right.

You do everything he tells you to.

Put everything in tiptop order, Sally.

You can never know everything, my child.

He was sitting in his chair, everything from the top of his head to his thighs covered with the newspaper he was holding out to read.

It meant everything, but it didn't erase the ugly feeling.

You hide everything that is lovely.

Do everything he says.

Everything was going to be all right now.

Alex was doing everything in his power to provide her with all the experiences of a natural mother.

But after Mother died everything changed.

Inside was everything she had ordered - as well as a box of chocolates.

Why did he have to make everything an issue?

They've done everything they can.

I'm trying to get everything caught up so I can spend a little time with Claudette.

I don't know about friends, but there sure are a lot of people in Ashley who seem preoccupied with everything I do.

Everything was in good order except the boots.

What had happened that made him ditch everything he knew and come to Arkansas?

No matter what she said, getting him back meant financial security - a roof over her head and everything that went along with it.

He therefore gave him many beautiful gifts and everything that could please a prince.

Why didn't you tell me everything from the beginning?

For me everything is functional, but you have style.

Everything is about to change.

Everything turned out fine and you learned a lesson.

Everything considered, it was easier to make the decision to take the job than to placate Mary.

In most judgments all we believe is that x is (or is not) y, that a thing is (or is not) determined, and that the thing signified by the subject is a thing signified by the predicate, but not that it is the only thing, or equal to everything signified by the predicate.

In everything the policy of the buccaneers, from the beginning to the end of their career, was one of pure destruction, and was, therefore, ultimately suicidal.

Accepting the homology of these apical systems with the calycinal system, the theory would regard the aboral pole of a sea-urchin or starfish as corresponding in everything, except its relations to the sea-floor, with the aboral pole of a fixed echinoderm.

But the basis of society was shaken by the Black Death; the kingdom was still essentially an agricultural community, worked on the manorial system; and the sudden disappearance of a third of the laboring hands by which that system had been maintained threw everything into disorder.

He soon succeeded in removing the trammels imposed upon his authority, and made himself king in everything but name.

Space, he says, appears when we use our senses of sight and touch; succession he finds " suggested " by all the changing phenomena of sense, and by " what passes in our minds "; number is " suggested by every object of our senses, and every thought of our minds, by everything that either doth exist or can be imagined."

All men, in acting, aim at some result, either for its own sake or as a means to some further end; but obviously not everything can be sought merely as a means; there must be some ultimate end.

Lactantius (circa 300 A.D.), for example, roundly declares that Plato and Aristotle, referring everything to this earthly life, " made virtue mere folly "; though himself maintaining, with pardonable inconsistency, that man's highest good did not consist in mere pleasure, but in the consciousness of the filial relation of the soul to God.

He proclaimed himself, before everything else, a physiologist, and looked to physiology to provide the ultimate standard for everything that has value; and though his own ethical code necessarily involves the disappearance of sympathy, love, toleration and all existing altruistic emotions, he yet in a sense finds room for them in such altruistic self-sacrifice as prepares the way for the higher man of the future.

We will do everything we can to make you happy.

In short, it tells us everything about ourselves.

And that method on which a great scholar 1 insisted when studying the old Persian religion is doubly to be insisted on in the study of the history of baptism and the cognate institution, the eucharist, namely, to avoid equally " the narrowness of mind which clings to matters of fact without rising to their cause and connecting them with the series of associated phenomena, and the wild and uncontrolled spirit of comparison, which, by comparing everything, confounds everything."

The legislature of 1863 and the state officers were opposed to him politically, and did everything in their power to thwart him and deprive him of his control of the militia.

Nearly everything, according to them, has a soul within its outward visible shape - not only men and animals, but also all plants, and even particles of earth, and of water (when it is cold), and fire and wind.

They regard good and evil and space as ultimate substances which come into direct contact with the minute souls in everything.

And their best-known position in regard to the points most discussed in philosophy is Syad-vada, the doctrine that you may say "Yes" and at the same time "No" to everything.

Everything settled down so peacefully that when the prince took the cross, and went off to the Crusatles in 1270, no trouble followed.

The Scots swept everything before them, ravaging the north at their will, and capturing Berwick.

The new king had everything in his favor; his father Accession had borne the odium of usurpation and fought down ileniy v.

The Revolution, though it had made an end of the Bastille, did not bring the only real practical liberty, that is to say, the liberty which comes with settled courts of justice, administering settled laws, undisturbed by popular fury, independent of everything but law, and with a clear law for their direction.

Everything is now matter of debate and argument.

He observed everything, thought ever, but avoided serious discussion.

And everything both within and without contributes to the profane and pagan character which it was Sigismondo's purpose to impress on the Christian church.