Apply oneself (to)

Usage examples of devote.

Sensing he was the favorite, Adams was soon devoting every possible hour to her, and when not, dreaming of her.

When members of the Massachusetts legislature came to Quincy to present Adams with a tribute to his devoted service to his country, he was moved to tears.

I could not walk down the street, or take part in ordinary duty or pleasure without being reminded of the dear dead Jane, and of the pleasant aftertime we had dreamed of when she should be restored through my instrumentality to her old quiet home and a life of peace, in which, shielded from every evil, she might devote her days to good deeds and repentance.

Herbert Akron, and Herbert Akron is very devoted to people who make him comfortable.

Lagos, was devoted entirely to the report of Meyer Horowitz on the iceberg Alamo operation.

Stimpson, it was thought that a proven warehouseman would be more helpful than a third alieni st Even with the most rigorous schedule and the briefest of consultations, it was clear to Thomas that he would not be able to follow the course of six hundred illnesses, let alone devote to them the long-term observation they required.

On some particular occasions, when the magistrates were exasperated by some personal motives of interest or resentment, the rules of prudence, and perhaps of decency, to overturn the altars, to pour out imprecations against the emperors, or to strike the judge as he sat on his tribunal, it may be presumed, that every mode of torture which cruelty could invent, or constancy could endure, was exhausted on those devoted victims.

But I have discovered that in this Exile world he devoted himself instead to the domestication of chatikot and heuadotberia and amphicyons, which became pivotal in the subsequent Tanu domination of society.

It makes possible to an extent the tracing of pet animals, lost or stolen, which now find themselves devoted to vivisection.

The next few days Tarzan devoted to the weaving of a barkcloth sail with which to equip the canoe, for he despaired of being able to teach the apes to wield the paddles, though he did manage to get several of them to embark in the frail craft which he and Mugambi paddled about inside the reef where the water was quite smooth.

Hills of Apion, it was the custom of the Blade Kingdoms to devote themselves to war.

One nun, Sister John Appassionata, took a special interest in Jude and under her devoted care he found his voice again.

Paris, this eleventh of November, your devoted husband, Robert Appleton, Knight.

O thou, the very power by which I am, And but for which it were in vain to be, Chief next Diana, virgin heavenly fair, Admired Arete, of them admired Whose souls are not enkindled by the sense, Disdain not my chaste fire, but feed the flame Devoted truly to thy gracious name.

X himself devoted his valuable time to rooting through the debris of the New Atlantan immune system proved this.