Involve

All was arranged in such a way that the future as foreseen by the unalterable mathematics of psychohistory would involve their early isolation from the main body of Imperial civilization and their gradual growth into the germs of the Second Galactic Empire – cutting an inevitable barbarian interregnum from thirty thousand years to scarcely a single thousand.” “And where did you find out all this?

Do not involve yourself, or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent.

“If I take you off the ring, will you do as you’re told?” “Will it involve dancing?

When Harold was doing something that didn't involve having some sort of strange sex with her, he seemed to go away to his own private place where she had no control over him.

“I can.” “Do it, then.” Scrooge asked the question, because he didn’t know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation.

He had never been to a wedding before, so he could not judge how Wizarding celebrations differed from Muggle ones, though he was pretty sure that the latter would not involve a wedding cake topped with two model phoenixes that took flight when the cake was cut, or bottles of champagne that floated unsupported through the crowd.

Now cast your eyes around, while I dissolve The mists and films that mortal eyes involve, Purge from your sight the dross, and make you see The shape of each avenging deity.

I would repeat it, however, a hundred times, that “immediate certainty,” as well as “absolute knowledge” and the “thing in itself,” involve a contradictio in adjecto; we really ought to free ourselves from the misleading significance of words!

He had never--with all the many dudes and chicks who rode with him, even when he had been obliged to keep tuned to police info-instruct, such as when a major bust was going down or any big action was in progress which might involve him--had anyone notice.

To some the general interest in the White Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of the Town-Ho’s story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of God which at times are said to overtake some men.

I saw, or at least I thought I saw, a vast scene opening itself to the world in the affairs of America; and it appeared to me, that unless the Americans changed the plan they were then pursuing, with respect to the government of England, and declared themselves independent, they would not only involve themselves in a multiplicity of new difficulties, but shut out the prospect that was then offering itself to mankind through their means.

"Would this involve that sack you mentioned?"

But the wound remains and will reopen at the first loss.” “No, for I am only embarked in certainties,” replied Danglars, with the air of a mountebank sounding his own praises; “to involve me, three governments must crumble to dust.” “Well, such things have been.” “That there should be a famine!” “Recollect the seven fat and the seven lean kine.” “Or, that the sea should become dry, as in the days of Pharaoh, and even then my vessels would become caravans.” “So much the better.

Yet the very means by which he hoped to make this change threatened to involve him in even greater difficulties than he had had before.

There are encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties.

She’d thought that this quest—whatever it was—would involve nameless people.

But it seem’d to me, as the objects in Nature, the themes of aestheticism, and all special exploitations of the mind and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important, of their point of view,8 the time had come to reflect all themes and things, old and new, in the lights thrown on them by the advent of America and democracy—to chant those themes through the utterance of one, not only the grateful and reverent legatee of the past, but the born child of the New World—to illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of today; and that such illustration and ensemble are the chief demands of America’s prospective imaginative literature.

Most of them involve Gale and me out hunting and somehow I don’t think these will play well with either Peeta or the audience.

Fully smelling it would involve standing pretty close to him.

Hence the apelike tricks that he would play me, scrawling in my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books, burning the letters and destroying the portrait of my father; and indeed, had it not been for his fear of death, he would long ago have ruined himself in order to involve me in the ruin.

Well, it seems that M. Poirot solved a baffling murder mystery that threatened to involve them both.

She already had figured out that this sanctuary somewhere ahead of them must involve a no-ship or a no-chamber.

Do you know who we are?” Varney did the nearest thing he could to a nod that didn’t actually involve moving any muscles.

Since it is possible26 that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.27 But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence?

Then swift from all sides pour The hissing brands; thick streams the fiery shower; O'er the high stern the curling volumes rise, And sheets of rolling smoke involve the skies.

“If I take you off the ring, will you do as you’re told?” “Will it involve dancing?

Advise if this be worth Attempting, or to sit in darkness here Hatching vain empires.” Thus Beelzebub Pleaded his devilish counsel, first devised By Satan, and in part proposed; for whence, But from the author of all ill, could spring So deep a malice, to confound the race Of Mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell To mingle and involve, done all to spite The great Creator?

Don Quixote, when he saw that not one of the four travellers took any notice of him or replied to his challenge, was furious and ready to die with indignation and wrath; and if he could have found in the ordinances of chivalry that it was lawful for a knight-errant to undertake or engage in another enterprise, when he had plighted his word and faith not to involve himself in any until he had made an end of the one to which he was pledged, he would have attacked the whole of them, and would have made them return an answer in spite of themselves.

‘The government has no business in business, and I would be the last person in the world to ever try to involve the government in a business of mine.