Marryat's "Mr. Midshipman ___"

Usage examples of easy.

Remember: achieving fulfillment through spiritual transformation is not easy, nor is it supposed to be, but it is what you are meant to do.

His defence was firm, his submission was not inglorious, and the emperor was content with an easy tribute, the demolition of his fortresses, and the acknowledgment, on his coins, of a supreme lord.

It is not easy, however, to induce a child to use an Acousticon at all times, whereas an adult will take the time and trouble necessary to become accustomed to the instrument, and will put up with the slight inconveniences inseparable from its use.

She had made it easy for Addis to get Rhys alone because she wanted men she could trust beside her husband.

The Bridge over the Abyss was a classic means of progression on the path toward adeptship, but that path was in no wise an easy one.

Often, the easiest way to avoid an adjective-based cliche is to free the phrase entirely from its adjective modifier.

Those will last for nearly a generation and are, admittedly, easier to fix.

After all it is an easy enough matter for an adventurous man, who does not look where he is going, to get hanged for a mere trifle.

The way we had all learned to think about Talents made it easier to accept her as being a combination Pursuivant and Afrit than simply as having seven separate Talents.

The squatter leased it on easy terms, and bought it only when it had sufficient value to be desired by agriculturists or by selectors who posed as agriculturists.

It is the easier for the biographer to maintain this reverential attitude, inasmuch as the prayer of Agur has been fulfilled in him, he has been given neither poverty nor riches.

At once the riding became easier, for the moment a gust of wind hit the machine on one side, the elevators and ailerons shifted and counteracted its uneven effect.

It is easy to see that the method, while it gives unusual freshness to imaginative representation, is in essence hostile to all culture and all social form, and is psychologically akin to anarchism.

Bone-tired, Alec was grateful to find Micum a person easy to be quiet with.

His long, good-natured face was seamed with age around the eyes and brow, and his short beard and the curling hair that thickly fringed his balding pate were silvery white, yet he stood as straight and easy as Alec himself.