1 I not only attended the weekly debating society, but was instrumental in organizing an additional society.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV. 2 She has unusual ability in instrumental music.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVI. 3 They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and arrange in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.
4 With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
5 I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.
6 I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.
7 I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.
8 I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments.
9 But the umblest persons, Master Copperfield,' he presently resumed, 'may be the instruments of good.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 10 I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 11 My boots might be placed in any collection of instruments of torture.
12 The instruments of transfer were drawn out: St. John, Diana, Mary, and I, each became possessed of a competency.
13 The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion.
14 Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
15 Before the throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds.