Sentence examples for taking spirit from inspiring English sources

As word spread, Mumler's hobby became a lucrative business, and soon he was taking spirit photographs from dusk till dawn, summoning lost loves beneath his skylight, and dispensing solace to a public addled by the rising death toll of the Civil War.

The early-January euphoria in the stock market tells me there is still a high degree of enthusiasm and risk taking spirit in the market.

Even after being unmasked as a fraud, Hope continued taking spirit photos until his death in 1933.

By 1922, Hope was making good money in London taking spirit photos and working as a professional medium even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame was a staunch supporter.

Face ruined, wife taken, spirit crushed – and all for what?

Leyton Orient winger Dean Cox told BBC London 94.9: "It was a bad start and we didn't really create much, but we take spirit from the second half performance.

"We are confident and performed well in our last two games, we'll take spirit from that and we feel we have turned the corner".

Socrates takes spirit to be a natural ally of reason, at least part of its function being to support reason in such conflicts as may arise between it and appetite (440ef, 442ab).

Idealists "concede only spirits or else those things that do not consist of matter", whereas materialists "do not accept anything in philosophy other than the corporeal and take spirits and souls to be a corporeal force".

He also revealed he has been experimenting by taking a spirit level on to the putting surfaces in practice at Lytham.

Creating new felonies or making it easier for shareholders to sue chief executives, he has cautioned, would drain corporate America of its risk-taking spirit and take a toll on the economy's growth.