| 单词 | unsubstantial |
| 例句 | It was turning colder and the air was heavy with the threat of rain, but the kind of rain that on cool mornings is bled out of the unsubstantial flesh of the fog. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There is precious little that is unsubstantial or petite about its food. Hey, Mr. Critic: Pleasing Finicky Parents and Nostalgic Texans ? Hey, Mr. Critic 2011-10-06T22:27:50Z When the Devil is trounced in Paradise Regained, "Darkness now rose / As daylight sunk, and brought in louring Night / Her shadowy offspring, unsubstantial both, / Privation mere of light and absent day". Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z Salads don’t have to feel flimsy or unsubstantial. Vegetarian school lunches that are nourishing, protein-filled, meat-free and kid-friendly 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z “Those conversations were unsubstantial in their academic content and clarity.” Florida details months of complaints about AP African American studies course 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Still, Republicans plowed ahead with unsubstantial allegations of collusion between government officials and the company’s old regime. GOP lawmakers allege Big Tech conspiracy, even as ex-Twitter employees rebut them 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z A skimpy stained chair rail can look unsubstantial and dated. Woodwork in your home need upgrading? Here’s how to decide whether to paint or stain it. 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z “And he proved himself to be a callow, unsubstantial, often dimwitted person.” How Andrew Yang Went From Front-Runner to Fourth Place 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z While Dee’s contribution is not unsubstantial, the structure, tone, character, percussion writing, harmony and counterpoint are pure Harrison. Lou Harrison's generosity endures when we most need it 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The White House dismissed the whistleblower's complaint, claiming it is unsubstantial, because it is based on conversations with other government officials, The Post reported. IRS whistleblower claims political appointee tried to interfere in audit of Trump or Pence: report 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The voices glimmer with unsubstantial hope and pure lies. How it feels to be swallowed by a black hole 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “It’s a pretty unsubstantial machine, compared to where typewriters got to.” Typing a Novel About Vassar, Word for Word, as Art 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z It was, he says, candy floss Christianity - big, sweet, unsubstantial. Inside the White House Bible Study group 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z The theatrical evolutions since 1982 make “Cats” seem quaint and unsubstantial. Review: The hairball that is ‘Cats’ returns to Broadway 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z How could an exhibit displaying those contributions feel so unsubstantial? One Fan's Disappointment with Björk's MOMA Exhibition 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z It is not an unsubstantial point, but flourishing innovative corporations are themselves an essential part of the structure. Burger King's Inversion Should Spur Congress to Reform the Tax Code 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Although the brand’s expansion at other locations will continue in line with this strategy, the closure of 125 stores will leave P.S. from Aeropostale with an unsubstantial retail presence in the near future. Mexican Expansion Will Give P.S. From Aeropostale A Much-Needed Push 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z United is left to measure progress with its new-fangled roster in intangible but unsubstantial ways. D.C. United vs. Toronto: Progress but still a loss for United, 1-0 2014-03-23T00:44:30Z Clark would spend that time pondering the substantial, such as the composition of the walls in the radiology room, to the unsubstantial, such as where a donated video art installation would hang. Architect designs a beacon for health care in Haiti 2012-05-26T04:34:00Z A first glance told her that he was more splendid than any other man in the building, and then everything about and beyond him became vague and dim and unsubstantial. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z This pessimistic philosophy is difficult to fight, for it is unsubstantial, and dissolves like mist whenever you come to close quarters. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z To Kipps Helen had once supplied a delicately beautiful dream, a thing of romance and unsubstantial mystery. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z But beyond this crowd of unaspiring humanity, passionate of gain rather than of any unsubstantial thing, rises the splendid front of the cathedral, set upon a height, as the temple of the Lord should be. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z It was filmy and unsubstantial, etherealized by the moonlight, but it grew plainer, and once more he saw Benicia Figuera as he had talked with her in the shady patio. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Hudson was only the type of a class whose members were invested by the railway passion of the period with brief splendour and unsubstantial prosperity. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z But in the sphere of the legal edifice of the State, these glaring contradictions disappeared, and there penetrated thither only unsubstantial legal shadows. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Standing upon the orchestra, giddy, almost fearful to fall forwards into the great unlighted chaos, the windows looked like clouds themselves, and every pillar, tier, and cornice stood dilated in the unsubstantial space. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z In all these relations there is something of fact, but much more that is too unsubstantial for the historian's acceptance. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z O blessèd bird! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, fairy place: That is fit home for thee! The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z And how like an apparition it seems, when he reflects that all that glittering splendor rests on the unsubstantial sea. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z The masterpieces of the men of action are coarse and commonplace in comparison with it, and the masterpieces of speculation flimsy and unsubstantial. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Shall I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean, abhorred monster keeps thee here. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Oh, never fix thine heart upon the vain and unsubstantial things of this world! The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Annihilation in its most literal sense was the only word that would describe it, for there was force enough in those yellow sticks to transform material flesh and blood into unsubstantial gases. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z It deployed along the hillsides;--the mountains became unsubstantial behind it--it swept across the valley, lashing the house, bending the trees in the garden. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Paste′board, a stiff board made of sheets of paper pasted together, &c.—adj. made of such, unsubstantial. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z All lights were out on the Tarifa, but I could see her hull dimly, a blot of solid black against the night's unsubstantial blackness. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z Tea was an event, requiring much manipulation of old silver teapots, one for the leaves and one for the brew, and when she had company much pressing of dainty, unsubstantial viands. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Fume, fūm, n. smoke or vapour: any volatile matter: heat of mind, rage, a passionate person: anything unsubstantial, vain conceit.—v.i. to smoke: to throw off vapour: to be in a rage: to offer incense to.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Some of the more prominent hypotheses may be mentioned, but space will not permit of a detailed analysis of theories, most of which rest upon somewhat unsubstantial ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Why fill, with the veriest baubles of this unsubstantial scene, hearts already too much inclined to exclude their rightful possessor? Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The present European quarter in Pekin reminds one of a town which has been rebuilt, after violent earthquakes, on the same spot and in the same way, on that most unsubstantial foundation—chance. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The shadows of the hollies and cypresses were thin and unsubstantial, but where a beach overarched the grass, Evelyn and Mrs. Chisholm, attired in light draperies, reclined in basket chairs. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Froth′less, free from froth; Froth′y, full of froth or foam: empty: unsubstantial. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Berkeley was the first thinker clearly to perceive the unsubstantial nature of a world made up solely of primary qualities. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Your pleasures too I have tried; and I know them to be cold, fleeting, and unsubstantial, as the glories of a winter sky. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Yet, to the discreet observer how gaudy is her charm, how showy and unsubstantial, and of the day only, when matched with graces like those of the truly incomparable old lady! Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z “I’ve been feeling rather unsubstantial of late, as the result of a restricted diet,” he answered with a smile, and sat down in the nearest chair, while Nairn regarded him with carefully suppressed curiosity. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z This chase after antiquity proves to have something unsubstantial about it. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Here it builds its unsubstantial nest of a few sticks, and lays two eggs. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z By transference anything light, unsubstantial or flimsy is known as “gossamer.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z It's so unfair, when a boy has a dozen solid real virtues that you should refuse to recommend him for a job because he hasn't got in your opinion a frivolous, unsubstantial advantage like charm. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z Miss Arnott herself made but an unsubstantial meal; watching the conscientious manner in which the elder lady did justice to the excellent fare with ill-concealed and growing impatience. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Every one is agreed that Lord Parnaby is flippant and unsubstantial; we doubt his principles and we have grave fears about his morality. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z The nest of the Wood Dove is an unsubstantial structure, composed of sticks so loosely put together that the eggs or young birds are sometimes visible from below. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Why, now that they have become physically strong, should they bother about the unsubstantial kind of strength known as moral to which they were forced to resort when they were physically weak? The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Notwithstanding the apparently feeble and unsubstantial structure of many of the lines, accidents to passenger trains are scarcely ever heard of. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z You are become a mere thought, an unsubstantial impression on the memory, which, however, is happily incapable of erasure. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Soft, slabby, and unsubstantial, its treacherous beds scarcely offered secure footing to the heron that alighted on them. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z It is a forgery so shallow, unreal, and unsubstantial, that there is no well-educated historian, and never has been one, who gave it any credence. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z It had an unsubstantial look, as if it might suddenly fade away, and Cliffe felt that he was doing something fantastic and unreal as he watched the blurred forms of his companions move on. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Petrarch endeavored to merge the living passion of his soul into this airy and unsubstantial devotion. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z I would not take the fellow at a gift Who warms himself with unsubstantial hopes; But bravely to live on, or bravely end, Is due to gentle breeding. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z He had not long closed his eyes when he dreamed that from out of the well a female figure, slight and unsubstantial as the element from which it sprang, arose. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Vague and unsubstantial as they were, the generous Walter was soon reconciled to his friend, put his purse into his hand, and insisted upon being immediately introduced to his lovely bride. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z Even the few pale stars shining through the window, and the brooding look of the room, with its flickering firelight and its motionless figures, appeared thin and unsubstantial as if they possessed no objective reality. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z More of our waking life than we should care to admit, even to ourselves, is likely to be whiled away in this inconsequential trifling with idle fancy and unsubstantial hope. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z The ties which bind one to another are spun out of threads like cobwebs,—so gossamer in texture, so frail and unsubstantial, that they seem a thing one can brush aside with a touch. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Strange to make a solid foundation out of so unsubstantial a thing as “hope!” The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z What splendid scenes have these mirrors reflected! and all that was then so glorious is now as unsubstantial as the shadowed form. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z One row of columns rises above another, and each row is encircled by wondrous gossamer trellis-work, so that they look for all the world like aerial, unsubstantial balconies. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Being a childless woman myself, I am more afraid of my godson than of the devil, the latter being so conveniently unsubstantial. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z The reasoning of the zealous Father deduces a great deal from very little, it will be observed, and in this elastic way tradition "enlarged its borders" and assumed unsubstantial dimensions. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z You received Jesus, so you are delivered from the tyranny of these unsubstantial and portentous systems, and relegated to the facts of a human life for your knowledge of God. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z What showed as land was of too unsubstantial a quality, too thin and broken a rind on that vast area of water to be of any use as a foothold. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Legion and Horner were alike unsubstantial figures, shapes that had moved for an instant on a tinted cloud and had disappeared. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z It is the reversal of human judgment: the announcement that all is stable which appears unsubstantial, and all which appears solid is about to melt like snow. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z For he, or the unsubstantial vision in his form, did come again and again, and always in one of two places—in the Blue Room, or beside “The Pot.” World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z We no longer had to subsist upon fragments of unsubstantial suppositions; Tracy was a person, not a figment of one's imagination. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z I asked again, for the whole business seemed to be as unsubstantial as a vapour cloud. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z A voice told Arthur that there was something unsubstantial in this glittering edifice; somewhere there was a rotten bolt, which, if plucked out, would result in total ruin. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Even when recognised as such, the illusion was still perfect; nor could the eye separate the hill from the unsubstantial vapour. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z That spectre which had hovered over the city of Stirmingham so long—the spectre of the American claims—had at last put in its appearance, and was found to be hollow and unsubstantial. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Two hundred and fifty pounds of his money gone, and he has nothing yet before him in return but an unsubstantial shadow.” The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z But, on the other hand, when the inspiration forsakes her, she drifts along on a windy current of words, the fatal facility of her pen often beguiling the writer into vague diffuseness and unsubstantial declamation. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z It brings him ‘a tale of visionary hours,’—hours of childhood, when he sought this invisible thing in vain, and the earth appeared to his bewildered but liberated fancy ‘an unsubstantial fairy place.’ Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Yet we found, in fact, that this unsubstantial prism could bear up the weight of waters, and that it guards us safely. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z She was so strong even in her weaknesses; for you made her no unsubstantial ideal. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z Deeply was Albano hurt by an open refusal, which hitherto, coming upon him as a silent one and as philosophy, had floated about untouched, as a mere unsubstantial shadow. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Poor and unsubstantial enough these doubtless are, in many a case. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z And still, when he hears it, the great globe itself, we may say, fades like an unsubstantial pageant; or, to quote from the Immortality Ode, the ‘shades of the prison house’ melt into air. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Thus then has our language been in perpetual movement, and that “purity of style,” whose presumed violation has raised such reiterated querulousness, has in reality proved to be but a mocking phantom, fugitive or unsubstantial. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z However thin, and rare, and unsubstantial the comet may be, the medium which resists it is much more so. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z We have all heard of people living on hope; and the children of Isaac might have hoped for the fulfilment of the promise, but such would be very unsubstantial food during a seven years' famine. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z Ah! the hopes and fears that come and go With my flying fancy, none may know; Though unsubstantial, it seems My real world—this world of dreams. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z Uncle David and Aunt Nellie, too, though familiar household names, were entities as unsubstantial as characters in a book. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z The Indians used for their beds mats, probably made of rushes, which in default of bark also 19 served as material for the walls and roofs of their unsubstantial shelters. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z And as there were no thoughts, but only soft unsubstantial dreams in his head, as moreover he was feeling no pain at the moment, he at once fell asleep again. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z The terrace was long and broad, and as unreal and unsubstantial as though it were built of moonshine. The Blue Rose Fairy Book 2011-05-03T02:00:18.777Z Now, Mr. President and brothers, I owe you an apology for detaining you so long with this unsubstantial matter, this unwritten poetry of the profession. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Elinor and he were in town: upon the morning of his visit to Grosvenor Square, they sat together in their hotel and weaved their bright and airy plans in syllables more unsubstantial than the gossamer. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z They were all shadowy and unsubstantial, but none the less fascinating for that. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z A strength-giving milk diet became a rarity in the country, and in its stead recourse was had to unsubstantial skimmed milk, inferior substitutes, vegetable oils, and, unfortunately, alcoholic drinks as well. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z They seemed somewhat unsubstantial, leaving him to suppose he might still hope. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z They are struggling, heaving, dying; on them, on these creatures of the silent, moving sea, settles the nauseating faintness of the unsubstantial air. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z As Bel attracted to himself the other gods, appropriating their names and therewith their essence and attributes, so Istar attracted the unsubstantial goddesses of the Babylonian pantheon. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z His creed is that of the Roman moralists—a belief in the benignant Maker of the Universe, an intellectual and unsubstantial theism. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Delicate and unsubstantial things, as sweetmeats, whipped cream, and melting fruits, were for the soul, and roast beef and the like were for the body. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z "I shall take care to fortify myself by a good dinner beforehand—ho! ho! ho!—lest the entertainment prove as unsubstantial as the Barmecide's feast!" said the manufacturer to himself. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z His people were never to gain more than a brief and unsubstantial foothold in this land of promise. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z The goddesses owed their existence to a grammatical necessity, and their unsubstantial and colourless character justified their origin. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The groups of quiet people—almost all of them were women, and very few of them were young—melted slowly into the shadowy church-porch, like the dusky unsubstantial figures in a dioramic picture. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z But it was but a brief unsubstantial vision that flashed for an instant and was gone. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z The barque, thus driven and thus steered, is equally unsubstantial and ideal, for it makes no ripple in the wave through which it glides. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z There is something slight and unsubstantial about the whole thing, while the metre is continually careless and lame. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The place was lit only by hanging lamps, and David's impression of her, as he turned around, were a little unsubstantial. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Things crept out of darkness, awoke as it were out of mysteries and reclothed themselves in unsubstantial shadows and faint-hued forms. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z We go on and on in a scenery of dismal monotony, continually repeating itself, all misty and unsubstantial in appearance as if made of muslin. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z The flesh seemed to have melted from his face, and when he stood naked on the beach it seemed that the moving of his bones must soon tear holes in the unsubstantial skin. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z In it he claims that unsubstantial immortality of remembrance and of mention among men which is even now, as we write and read, being vouchsafed to him. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Twenty paces off the largest ship in port only loomed indistinctly, the merest ghost of a vessel, dim, shadowy, unsubstantial; the red and green lights in the rigging were indistinguishable a dozen yards away. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z He had dreamt vaguely, unsubstantially, the while he had arranged his pressures and temperatures and infinitesimal ingredients, and worked with goniometer and trial models and the new calculating machine he had contrived for his research. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Nor are they to be exchanged for the new friends that may come through the advertising appeal, founded on the unsubstantial instinct for constant variety. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z With oil prices edging towards $100 per barrel, the existence of a not unsubstantial Islamist movement the US fears that the advent of democracy in Egypt might not be in America’s strategic interests. Obama's Cairo speech comes back to haunt him 2011-01-31T16:20:00Z Thus having spoken, spite of my tears, spite of the thousand things I longed to say, she left me and vanished into unsubstantial air. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z They live now, like chameleons, upon air And hope, and such cold, unsubstantial dishes; That they removed, is clear, but when or where None knew. Fanny With Other Poems 2011-01-01T03:00:27.707Z It had to go on, he believed, until the spreading certitudes of the scientific method pierced its unsubstantial thickets, burst its delusive films, drained away its folly. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z So it goes in books with every one to his own liking, though the particular likings are a very unsubstantial guide to the literary merits of the books liked. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z The cloud capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z The unsubstantial shades throng down to Charon's boat, where some are accepted for passage, and some rejected. �neas in wonder turns to his guide for an explanation of this. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Whilst she was thus occupied, the caliph, who, instead of the visions he expected, had acquired in these unsubstantial regions a voracious appetite, was greatly provoked at the mutes. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Oh! what unsubstantial, foolish, joyous days were those! The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z As compared with the intensity of this new passion, his old life seemed like an unsubstantial shadow. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z Used equipment, an old truck, and other unsubstantial items that would not generate any substantial money for the bank are not going to be considered by the bank. How to Build and Maintain Good Business Credit 2010-11-30T08:31:00Z In this way they gradually sank into the unsubstantial though glittering pageant of a court. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies In a certain community, for example, patriotism, morality, and piety, long identified with specific forms and customs and doctrines, have come at last to seem quite unsubstantial. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The dead do not appear to Virgil merely as the shadowy inhabitants of an unsubstantial world,—νεκύων ἀμενηνὰ κάρηνα,—but as partakers in a more august and righteous dispensation than that under which mortals live. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil I probed fearfully forward with the sword, but all was an unsubstantial void; I drew it on each side, and then it met but the solid walls. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 His early memories of his mother were, for that matter, even more unsubstantial. The Valiants of Virginia Therefore another week saw unsubstantial suspicion waning; scoffs had their day and died of inanition; and the boy's high-hearted flouting of a hard imposition annulled its rigour. The Unknown Sea Are not abstract plans and such seemingly unsubstantial things as mathematical formul�, which are very near to being made of empty space and time, the real strength and integrity of all our great modern structures? The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The candlelight sprayed her flowing chestnut hair with a golden mist that might have been an aureole over which the apple-green bows floated unsubstantial like amazing moths. Sinister Street, vol. 1 I shall be beneath the earth, an unsubstantial shade; Where the myrtles throw their shadow will my bones be laid. Mice & Other Poems In reply, we purpose to demonstrate that the foundation on which that structure rests, though it may have the outward semblance of solidity, is hollow and unsubstantial within. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, August 1865 Suppose the bed, the floor, the earth below were suddenly to become as unsubstantial as the door. Earth Alert! The dividing partitions may still stand, but only as unsubstantial forms wholly transparent and ineffective, so that the undivided universe is really present to consciousness. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker It was as if he were sitting beneath a mountain waterfall that, graceful and unsubstantial as wind-blown tresses, was yet most incomparably strong, and wrought an ice-cold, a stern purification. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The great wooden hall had its transient and unsubstantial character stamped on every bare wooden joist and unclinched nail. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play Without it all voices are thin and unsubstantial. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Technicians glanced anxiously at the suddenly unsubstantial walls. Earth Alert! I did not know that you were inclined to be so pusillanimous," cried Mr. Sylvester; "and in presence of a foe so unsubstantial as this you have conjured up almost out of nothing. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life His highest degree of approval seemed to consist in an absence of disapprobation; yet, feeling that this negative reward of merit was hard to win, the recipient took the unsubstantial guerdon with some gratification. The Great Miss Driver As he shivered he realized that this sepulchral place had filled with plausible inhabitants—shapes as restless and unsubstantial as if sprung solely from a morbid somnambulism. The Gray Mask What lengths of far-famed ages, billow’d high With human agitation, roll along In unsubstantial images of air! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes This is the unsubstantial allegory, which has, it must be owned, a different meaning to different climes and times. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 Fears too unsubstantial to be met and vanquished, had haunted her steps all day. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life She watched the adventures of girlhood fall prettily about her; saw them like unsubstantial snowflakes that are effective only in accumulation. Carnival Has every substance been possessed by the spirit of falsehood, so that the Being of beings can only reveal His presence in unsubstantial phantoms? The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews All my more vigorous aspirations were directed to a remote future and an unsubstantial shadow. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative In doing so he dragged the logs too far forward on the unsubstantial hearth, setting fire to the crossbeams which supported the floor. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Others clearly saw some vassalage to the Pope in this temporary display of royalty; a yet smaller number looked on with compassionate sorrow at this solemn mockery of a state so unreal and unsubstantial. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The palings on either side of the steps became invalid, unsubstantial, deliquescent like material objects in a nightmare. Carnival It was the comparatively narrow and unsubstantial crust of the embankment which had yielded, disintegrated by the thaw and ripped by the broken edges of the ice. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life His whole body seems about as unsubstantial as his tail. My First Summer in the Sierra Three members of his cabinet, of whom Lord Cranborne was the most important, refused the unsubstantial solace and resigned. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Hyrst tried to see into it with his mental eyes, but the "fog" was so dense and bright— He saw it, an unsubstantial ghostly shadow, but there. The Legion of Lazarus If they think the charge unsubstantial they discharge the accused at once. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" He was fading into something unsubstantial—something that Gwen could not lean against, or put her arms round. The New Warden At distance the heights of rock looked as unsubstantial as Prospero’s magic; the clouds that swam over them and across their steeps might have been solid, so phantasmal were those rocks. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Throughout the Middle Ages, the comforts of the houses were quite primitive; even the houses themselves were generally without architectural grace and frequently very unsubstantial. Women of England She looks cheap and unsubstantial and as though she wouldn't wear well. The Widow To Say Nothing of the Man Through this dense, but really unsubstantial mass, was to be seen the setting sun, spreading his luminous beams through the gigantic phenomenon; and the beauty of the sight was beyond human fancy to imagine. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Yes, there it was, they affirmed, on the northeastern horizon, a vapory, unsubstantial cone, dancing up and down in the refracting light. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 He had conceived of religion as a visionary system of words and phrases, and concluded that from so unsubstantial a theory, it would be a folly to look for practical effects. Coelebs In Search of a Wife O blesséd Bird! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place, That is fit home for Thee! Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation She is subtle as the air; she is evanescent as a sunbeam, and unsubstantial as the ocean’s froth;—but she is none of these. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Is it because 'tis unsubstantial all—senseless, though fair—and in its evanescence unsuited to the sympathies that yearn for the permanencies of breathing life? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) At first unsubstantial and wholly ineffable, these turned for it every object into beauty, every sound into joy. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The aprons of all of them were full of these most unsubstantial specimens of woody treasure, which hung out in long festoons, looking of a yellow transparency in the evening light. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Along with this sort of unsubstantial testimony there was presented a monotonous mass of spectral evidence. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Her face had the intense, unsubstantial pallor, the magic and stillness of flowers that stand in the blue dusk before night. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur If he undertook it now, piling it on the pack of unsubstantial miseries he was carrying, he would be swamped utterly. Old Crow He did not at first understand that La Fontaine, not Papineau, was the French leader, and that the latter represented only himself and a few Rouges of violent but unsubstantial revolutionary opinions. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 Popular superstition was in some degree appeased by the localization of deities in the likeness of men in a starry Olympus above the sky, a region furnishing unsubstantial glories and a tranquil abode. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It was free from many causes of instability and dissolution that were active in Greece—the eager quickness, the philosophic thought, the independent belief, the pursuit of unsubstantial grace and beauty. The History of Freedom It stood, divinely still in the perishing violet light, a world withdrawn and unsubstantial, yet piercingly, intolerably near. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur And yet, hardly more assured was he that what his senses were insisting on telling him were not things just as empty and unsubstantial. The Red Moccasins A Story I—I have another theory, but it's one too shadowy, too unsubstantial to speak of. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. The basis upon which it rested was in its nature unsubstantial, for it included intrinsic errors due to imperfect and erroneous observations. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition In the volumes of Arsene Houssaye before us, these gay but unsubstantial shadows take flesh and blood, and become the Men and Women—the living realities of the Eighteenth Century. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 The atmosphere of security and candour in which they lived influenced him unawares; it wrought as a useful antidote when his spirit was inclined to soar too high into the realms of the unsubstantial. Jena or Sedan? The "Great Father,"—the French king,—with whom Cazeneau thought he could overawe them, was in truth a very shadowy and unsubstantial personage. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia Basing their opinion on extremely unsubstantial internal evidence, some scholars have dated the play as early as 1594, but the evidence of style and construction make a date before 1596 unlikely. An Introduction to Shakespeare It had become a theoretical possibility, the basis of continually less confident, continually more unsubstantial day dreams. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The dueling machine and its rules seemed so very remote and unsubstantial, compared to this freezing, howling inferno. The Dueling Machine The advantages claimed for the changes are almost wholly unsubstantial, whilst the inevitable disadvantages are immense. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It was not an unsubstantial ghost which Zac dreaded, but the too substantial form of some frigate looming through the fog, and firing a gun to bring him on board. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia All this apparent enthusiasm, however, was very delusive and unsubstantial. Alexander the Great Makers of History His silent footsteps on the smooth, brown carpet made him seem but a spirit of the wood,–some unsubstantial denizen of this enchanted region. The Pines of Lory The edifice erected by the modern pleader’s subtle craftiness was unsubstantial as the icy patterns on the window-pane, which a single breath can dissipate. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit So far from there being anything unsubstantial—any danger of lack of staying power, any want of reserve force—the power has hardly yet begun to exert itself. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations The cage-room was humming, and glowing like a wraith; things seemed imponderable, unsubstantial. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 The bellying sails and the woof of cordage aloft, seemed unsubstantial, like a gossamer weaving. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The little pier at which they landed, neglected and unsubstantial, seemed barely strong enough to bear their weight. The Pines of Lory That old, bad time seems as unsubstantial as a dream; this seems the only reality; and yet the two periods are separated only by the span of a not very long human life. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 He thought of the inexplicable place of her birth and of the riven, unsubstantial figure of the man with the blood pulsing into his ocherous face. Wild Oranges Around our shadowy table placed, The spectral bowl before us floats: With wine that none but ghosts can taste We wash our unsubstantial throats. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The ghost could not consume the liquor, being too unsubstantial. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly For we are unsubstantial wrecks Beyond the pale of scale and fin; Adventurers tossed by king Time In region 'neath supernal skies. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell There, as Wordsworth says, everything fails so far as its object is external and unsubstantial; everything succeeds so far as it is moral and spiritual. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) When natures such as hers lose their self-reliance, life becomes as unsubstantial as an opium dream. Kildares of Storm Repeatedly did I vow to forget the fair vision that had crossed my path and troubled my repose, or to think of her only as the phantom of a dream, unsubstantial and unattainable. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 Among the other things a snake is crawling, and blowing out of its mouth beautifully coloured bubbles, airy and unsubstantial. Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children He was prepared to regard the human nature as unsubstantial. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Be then persuaded, my brethren, by this example of the uncertainty of human life, of the unsubstantial nature of all its pursuits, and no longer postpone the all-important concern of preparing for eternity. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. And seen from one angle, high up, unsupported, floating in the very air and eerily unsubstantial, was a temple lit by bale-fires that shone wanly at its base. Westward with the Prince of Wales It is to natural history what chivalry was to human history; ... a sort of make-believe, play, or sport of nature of an airy unsubstantial character. The Truth About Woman And since, moreover, the qualities of matter are clearly not themselves substances, that is to say do not themselves stand under or uphold anything, it follows that their compound, matter, must likewise be purely unsubstantial. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications The dead are conceived as continuing in a weak and unsubstantial reflection of their former selves. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Airy figures, absolutely bodiless ideas, and forms of unsubstantial beauty, came and danced before her, imprinting their momentary footsteps on beams of light. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories The legacy and the legatee have proved equally unsubstantial. Six Letters From the Colonies The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects, is,�"Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world; they are vanities, dreams, shadows, unrealities; seek the realities of religion." Nature "They are, perhaps, only unsubstantial froth, mere puffs of air, vapoury nothings." Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India I could feel my heart beating audibly when I beheld them, as if they were unsubstantial visitants, whose appearance I expected the grave would have interdicted from my eyes for ever. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 But how vague and unsubstantial are those speeches about the power of virtue! which they make out to be so great that it can, by itself, secure the happiness of man. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Pearly, unsubstantial in the young light, lay the huge oval meadow and the track edging it. The Flying Mercury Two years in this land of liquid light––a land of burning days and silent, sapphired nights, a land of palms and olives––two years of quiet, dreamy bliss, an idle and unsubstantial time! David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West We both saw a large pale light—as large as the human figure, but shapeless and unsubstantial—move before us, and ascend the stairs that led from the landing into the attic. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories The road was almost invisible, the plain unsubstantial, though the far-off mountain ranges showed plainly cut, with a curious trick of seeming always to shift back as the observer advanced. Rimrock Trail The sight of this loss of strength and dignity was an actual pain; her own pain was something elusive and unsubstantial; it wandered like a ghost vainly seeking an embodiment. Amabel Channice Woman's power is at present poetical and unsubstantial; let it be practical and real. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III There was no ground for present apprehension; the whole thing was very shadowy and unsubstantial,—a mere hint,—a question of care; nevertheless the word had been said, and the mischief done. Not Like Other Girls For an instant, accustomed though he was to the high places among the mountain crags, his senses reeled before the impression of unsubstantial vastness. Heart of the Blue Ridge The broken mesa, across which ran the road to the deserted mining camp, mysteriously changed form before their eyes; unsubstantial masses in pastel lights and shades of saffron, mauve and rose. Rimrock Trail That was why the glories were so unsubstantial, and why the dream must end at midnight. A Modern Cinderella Christianity, like all religions, is but an expression of material conditions, a direct outcome of social relations, the unsubstantial image of a world reflected in the muddy pool of human intellect. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals They will dissipate the rainbow-glories of unreal pleasure, and banish the glittering meteors of unsubstantial happiness. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Woman's power is, at present, poetical and unsubstantial; let it be practical and real. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It is gathered and eaten by the Arabs, but, like an unsubstantial fungus growth, melts or rots in the course of a day or two. In the Tail of the Peacock There was something frail, transparent, unsubstantial about her that day which Robert had never noticed before. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange It yielded to her touch, and she stole into the kitchen and up the back stairs like an unsubstantial shadow of the night, rather than a very tired and sore-hearted girl. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Perhaps it had been there longer than either of them knew; perhaps it took form suddenly when each realised the unsubstantial nature of the engagement to Meryl. The Rhodesian Some people have a vague, unsubstantial odour that floats about, mocking every effort to identify it. The World I Live In Then for a while he faded to an unsubstantial, shadowy figure in the back of her mind. Hawtrey's Deputy The firm had commenced their pecuniary transactions on a footing altogether weak and unsubstantial. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm The truth was, there had always been some talk in the family of these estates, though nobody knew better than Jackson Hyane how unsubstantial were the claims of the Whitlands to the title. Bones in London This was the rock that wrecked the Talleyrand ministry, and it destroyed more solid structures than that unsubstantial phantom. Lectures on the French Revolution Such things, being so told, may seem as strange and as unsubstantial as that which is unreal, instead of like that which is real. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk For a while Jane had the sensation of walking upon unsubstantial floors, of seeing unsubstantial objects. The Pagan Madonna Like the war of Charlemagne against the Saxons, victories were easily obtained, but the victors gained unsubstantial advantages. Ancient States and Empires It is as unsubstantial as the air in which it is formed. The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X I have already said in talking of the younger children that I feel it unsafe to loose a child in this unsubstantial world before he is fairly well grounded in a sense of reality. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Some readers interpret the former parable as indicating the unsubstantial forms that Christianity at times assumes, and the latter the false doctrine which at times permeates the Church. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition It would be a fine piece of work to throw all those rare vintages over the rail simply to appease an unsubstantial fear on your part! The Pagan Madonna Then, beyond, you saw the vast calmness of the Pacific and twenty miles away, airy and unsubstantial like the fabric of a poet's fancy, the unimaginable beauty of the island which is called Murea. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands That was a very doubtful possibility; the hope built upon it was vaporously unsubstantial. A Red Wallflower Another dissuading factor in the unsubstantial fishing in Virginia was the threat of Indian attack. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. Pearls of Thought It all seemed as unsubstantial as a dream. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance In a cause like this I hold that it is not unsubstantial victories but generalship that wins.' True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin And even the complexion of some, with its red and white, is more unsubstantial than all the rest; for it is in danger of being washed away by the first shower. Humanity in the City What is pleasant to the palate may be very unsubstantial for the stomach. The Proverbs of Scotland Such things, very unsubstantial arts, not like your gun which kills. Valley of the Croen One only amongst all chronologers has anything to stand upon that is not as unsubstantial as a cloud; and this is Sir Isaac Newton. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 She looked unsubstantial, rather like a floating fairy palace than a ship, and as the noisy launch drew nearer Jake gave his imagination rein. Brandon of the Engineers For a while after she saw him he faded to an unsubstantial, shadowy figure in the back of her mind. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Scott, in Old Mortality, uses it in the moral sense, "unsubstantial." The Proverbs of Scotland Her, rounded, fully adult body was sketched over with a web of silkily gleaming black net, light and unsubstantial as a dream, clinging and wholly revealing. Valley of the Croen Frost was “pony built” but sturdy, and Nita seemed like a fairy—indeed as unsubstantial as a wisp of vapor, as she came down the aisle on his arm. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters That it presents an odd, unsubstantial, whimsical, new thing: a sort of previously unthought-of Power going about. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete He could not take his eyes from her or remember that she was real, she looked so unsubstantial, eddying to and fro, curving and circling and swooping. The Dark Tower And under its transforming touch even the torn bodies lying before the bright face of the rock lost their hideousness, becoming remote, and unsubstantial and visionary. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life All this Charley saw, while seeing through the ghost and beyond—the carving on the rosewood dressing case was quite as visible through the unsubstantial apparition as before. Duffels The smoke gave them a wavering aspect as though their shapes were unsubstantial. Blackbeard: Buccaneer All the laws of blood seemed unsubstantial and shadowy. The Goose Man I hate thee, Aulus, hate thee," low he muttered, "It was by thee that I was always tricked, My unsubstantial bread I ate unbuttered In dread of interdict. Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series This child was all but empty, unsubstantial, imperfect; incapable, then, of much life from within itself, little helped by thoughts or other aid from without. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 There is an affected absence of effect in his "Arundel Castle"—the blues and yellows are not in harmony—and all has an uncomfortable, unsubstantial look. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Antony—"They have the unsubstantial air of shadows." The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul Watson's and Brooke's stories proved as unsubstantial as the astonishing romance adopted by grave de Thou. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography It is the way of Faith, but Faith is no airy and unsubstantial road, no capricious leap. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries The stormy ocean, the dizzy cliffs of Devon, melt like an unsubstantial pageant. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Preferring the unsubstantial rice to this more wholesome product, he leaves the sweet-potato for his Chinese and his Moro neighbors. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia The further bank, pale and unsubstantial, was outlined fitfully in the hurrying gloom. In Mesopotamia It was a thick little volume of poems, published in his college days—musical, unsubstantial, pretty little poems, every one of which the girl Sidney loved and knew by heart. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 It was a huge owl, and the rays of the moon struck it at such an angle that they made it look ghostly and unsubstantial. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness The blustering ocean, the dizzy cliffs of Devon, melt like an unsubstantial pageant. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Wit and humor are elusive,—they are unsubstantial. Stories Of Georgia That fair vision of a humanity detached from all consequences of sin, renewed in perfect beauty, stainless and Godlike, is no unsubstantial dream, but a simple fact. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John By the end of a fortnight, his newest friend merged with that unsubstantial company made up of David, Aladdin, Uncas and all the rest. The Rich Little Poor Boy All her actions showed a deeply-settled inward grief, and that she longed for death, having tasted the unsubstantial nature of human greatness. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges His 'links' and his 'steel' and his 'dread imputations' are, therefore, even more unsubstantial than my 'streaks of morning cloud,' and they may be permitted to vanish together. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Vast property, rank, influence, and station always attract a sentiment which is dignified with the name of friendship, which assumes all its outward appearance, complies with its conditions, but which is really hollow and unsubstantial. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Religion without morality, is an empty, formal, unsubstantial shadow. Practical Ethics We may omit the satellites for the present, while such unsubstantial bodies as comets and such small bodies as meteors need not concern us. Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon Moreover, the eyes of the people were opened to the moral corruptions incident to the support of a large army, without which the power of Cromwell would have been unsubstantial. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Mere recognition, though agreeable to any king, is unsubstantial, and the support suggested was evidently doubtful. Lady Bountiful They deprive men of the nourishment of their cultural past, and the substitutes they supply are unsubstantial.... The New World of Islam The reader of the preceding narrative, may perhaps suppose that the materials of which it is framed, are such unsubstantial stuff as dreams are made of. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman For the night is a mighty magician, with power to render even the weighty brick and stone, even the hard, uncomprising outlines of a monster, modern city, delicately elusive, mockingly tentative and unsubstantial. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance These soils, when the water is suddenly drawn out of them, retain their bulk for a time, and are too porous and unsubstantial for cultivation. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Then a white phantom boat, thin, vapory, unsubstantial, now seen, now lost again, appears on the skirts of our horizon. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses No darkness of the sky, or concentration of unsubstantial vapour. The Death Shot A Story Retold From the hasty and unsubstantial way in which houses are built up, the rafters and beams often communicating with the flues of the chimneys. 4th. Diary in America, Series One The horses were pulling, the fog was in his throat thick and choking—or was it, perhaps, something more unsubstantial and intangible even than fog? The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The air which is so thin and unsubstantial gives birth to storms that nothing can resist. Creative Unity It seems almost a vision of the unsubstantial imagination, when I think that I have known the one immortal man of the century, and enjoyed his friendship. Fifty Years of Public Service Yet on such unsubstantial bases every miner built a pet theory, and a large "stampede" took place in consequence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 His room was beneath hers—the cottage was built in the usual thin and unsubstantial fashion—and every sound from the room below rose to hers. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden The massive house front, and the walls fencing the three sides of the square enclosure before it, with the sexagonal, pepper-pot summer-houses at either corner, looked pale and unsubstantial in that diffused, unearthly light. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He started from the unsubstantial grounds of twofold superstition, and tried to be practical in his own defense. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Consuming their reason in those deep but unsubstantial meditations, their minds were exposed to illusions of fancy. The Superstitions of Witchcraft A homeless, unsubstantial, immaterial bitterness ... a flowerless, echoless, roadless desert ... full of mirages. Debts of Honor As well fight a fog as seek to destroy by mere denial suspicion so vague, unsubstantial, and subtile, as that which enveloped him. Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 Her companion was tall, gracious in bearing and movement, but unsubstantial, a luminous shadow merely. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance We come now to poetry, which some people consider very unsubstantial pabulum, but which forms one of the most precious and inspiring portions of the literature of the world. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries The Law is therefore a rough unsubstantial outline of truth, while the Gospel is exact and solid. The Books of the New Testament For want of dignity or beauty, many good things are passed and forgotten; and much ancient wisdom is overrun and hidden by a rampant verdure, succulent, but unsubstantial.... The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 But when applied to men and women in the mass, how thin and watery this ideal becomes, how unsubstantial and shadowy, how unsuited to the collective needs of society, which are practical and material. Personality in Literature It introduces a strangely fragile, unsubstantial, and puerile figure, wherein, however, resided one of the most potent and original spirits that ever frequented a tenement of clay. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author On the one hand, Ethics saves Dogmatics from evaporating into unsubstantial speculation, and by affording the test of workableness, keeps it upon the solid foundation of fact. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Were I a fat man I could not bear it, but I am as unsubstantial as they themselves. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 The Eastern view, it need scarcely be said, is the most prolonged, exceeding some five thousand years along the vista of time, where little else is discoverable but what is visionary, mythical, and unsubstantial. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators In spite of their connection with imaginary diseases and mental disturbances, there is nothing imaginary or unsubstantial about them. Preventable Diseases And the whole party sat down to a not unsubstantial meal round the cabin stove. Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy And on his psychical side he is not an unsubstantial wraith, but a being inconceivable apart from outward embodiment. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics All remains on my memory now like the unsubstantial fragments of a hideous dream. The Big Otter These and the universe which they create are the true truth; and compared with these every other "truth" is dubious, shadowy and unsubstantial. The Complex Vision You philosophers are fond of such unsubstantial things. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection At last, so faint was her outline as she glided onwards on our starboard bow, that I could scarcely help fancying that we were attacking a mere unsubstantial phantom. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman As a writer, he is a master of the critique spirituelle,—that species which is so brilliant in display, so unsubstantial in results. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 However, that unsubstantial shadow, a name, is often more durable than the thing, especially in rural parts; but, indeed, what is there in a name for Time's teeth to catch hold of? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 It worked with the lightness of something unsubstantial. Clayhanger A great poet in the hours of his idleness may indulge in allegory: but the highest poetical character will never rest on so unsubstantial a foundation. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection They appeared unsubstantial shadows of firs and pines, and he resented the fact that they barred his passage, when he blundered into one or two of them. The Gold Trail Do you think I’m going to have my character sworn away on such unsubstantial hallucinations? Frank Oldfield Lost and Found It may perhaps seem that the inducements I have stated are of an unusual character, unsubstantial, romantic, theoretical, and not practical. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 His imagination dwelt in a strange country of dream—a "ghoul-haunted region of Weir," "out of space, out of time"—filled with unsubstantial landscapes, and peopled by spectral shapes. Brief History of English and American Literature With our vulgar standards we often think of the thought as the unsubstantial and the shadowy, and the speech as the real. Friendship I consider the whole story as froth—foam—fudge, or whatever is most unsubstantial. St. Ronan's Well Shelley is now the rage in Cockayne; but he is too unsubstantial for me. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Apollyon does not appear armed to the teeth and throwing fiery darts, but comes as an unsubstantial shadow threatening vague and undefined dangers, and only half-detaching himself from the background of darkness. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Mr. Adamson, in a few satirical, well-reasoned, sententious paragraphs, has fairly demolished the superstructure which Selfishness had reared, and exposed the misrepresentations upon which alone the unsubstantial fabric could have rested. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Saul had made it clear that the descriptions given by the witnesses were vague, and now in the excitement of confronting their assailant they were apt to be still more unsubstantial. The Seventh Noon And then when the time arrives, the frail and unsubstantial things are all dead and cannot be recovered; for happiness cannot be achieved along these cautious and heavy lines. Joyous Gard Miss Heatherton was to pour the tea, and Miss Long was to distribute the thin lettuce sandwiches which formed its somewhat unsubstantial accompaniment. White Ashes The plaintiff was so enraged at this barefaced scheme to bar his just claim, Johnny's bail sureties being found equally unsubstantial, that he resolved to arrest Johnny's person. Stories of Comedy There are houses, gardens, and canoes there just as here, but all is thin and unsubstantial. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Along the foot of the precipice was a row of unsightly and unsubstantial buildings, where the scant population lived, carried on their few handicrafts, and stored their winter provisions. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country He had been reared in the lower walks of life among a people peculiarly given to arbitrary social distinction and to aristocratic pretensions as positive and tenacious as they were often ill-founded and unsubstantial. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Shadows began to fill the room, and the fragrance of the flowers and the aromatic beverage mingled in the air; the outlines of the surrounding objects melted into one vague form, harmonious, dim, unsubstantial. The Child of Pleasure Is it not that she begins to see more clearly the fiery judgments of God which will certainly overwhelm the wrongdoers, whatever may be the unsubstantial and evanescent graces of their mortal life? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Is it that by volatilising the solid substance of the food you make it more accessible to the thin unsubstantial nature of the ghost? The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia "It is better as it is," thought the father, unconscious that he was echoing such an unsubstantial philosophy as a poet's. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Certainly not the vapory, unsubstantial kind that flit through mansions such as mine. The Statesmen Snowbound The office rose by its grandeur to a region above the clouds and vapors of earth: the officer might find his personal security as unsubstantial as those wandering vapors. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 The flakes came down so thickly that from the sitting-room windows I could not see beyond the windmill—its frame looked dim and gray, unsubstantial like a shadow. My Ántonia The wild and solitary ice-peaks he sometimes scaled seemed to him the unsubstantial phantasmagoria of a troubled sleep. Cobwebs and Cables But if we have been wont to undervalue the strength of Federaldom, latent and displayed, we have perhaps scarcely realized how very unsubstantial and slippery are its presumed points of vantage. Border and Bastille For several years the progress of building societies in general was steady, but there were not wanting signs that their prosperity was unsubstantial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" As a theory the culture epochs may seem too loose and unsubstantial to serve as the basis for such a serious undertaking as the education of children to moral character. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Investigation found that many ideas and systems of ideas, supposed philosophies and sciences, were false and unsubstantial as the "baseless fabric of a vision." A Hero and Some Other Folks It is racy, it is understood, and the illustrations are always concrete and massive, never vague or unsubstantial. The Rise of the Democracy The age in which he lived, the decades that followed his death, found him unsubstantial enough. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers This is the dead, the unsubstantial—the boundary that limits from without the evolution of life in its gradually advancing progression, whereby the Perfect is ever evolving itself into the less Perfect. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The light must find no impediment in the unsubstantial matter of divine beings. Confessions of Boyhood A noble scene! all breadth, deep tone and power, Suggesting glorious themes; Shaming the idler who would fill the hour With unsubstantial dreams. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Therefore, whatever stability and palpability a musical composition is to acquire, must be derived from its form, or design, and not from its totally unsubstantial material. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition O bless�d bird! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, fairy place; That is fit home for Thee! The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language These unsubstantial fleeting barriers are dissipated in an instant before the mighty breath of their omnipotent passion. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy This strange story has vexed me a good deal, but I was aware from the first of its unsubstantial character. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes She put her arm round the schoolmistress and held up the shaking, unsubstantial little figure. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. The unsubstantial houses tried to seem—not respectable, no word so honest could be applied to them, but—genteel, and failed even in that miserable ambition. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. The exterior has a strange and elegant but somewhat unsubstantial effect. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle The friendship of the world is a hollow thing, more unsubstantial than a bubble. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Those evenings were, in fact, the brightest of his Fernhurst days; their happiness was unsubstantial, inexplicable, incomprehensible, but none the less a real happiness. The Loom of Youth Thousands of them are annually blown into the Black Sea, and here, once in contact with water, in an instant lose the fantastic grace belonging to their dry, unsubstantial texture.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 It does not, however, follow, that all comets are composed of such unsubstantial materials. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence All we need do is to look, and we shall be sure to find them—like unsubstantial ghosts of the active little wearers. The Insect Folk O blessèd Bird! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial faery place, That is fit home for Thee! The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book The great towers appeared unsubstantial, carved from blocks of mist only a degree thicker than that which spread about him. The Mayor of Warwick Fleda thought, as she went to rest, that it was well the mind's strength could sometimes act independently of its servant, the body, hers felt so very shattered and unsubstantial. Queechy, Volume II And now the unsubstantial peace which had existed between us for a time was followed by a very unhappy rupture, which left deep and angry wounds in the hearts of all the contending parties. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story How illusive it is!�dancing, darting, flickering, flashing�appearing, disappearing�unsubstantial yet active and almost miraculously potent. Nature Mysticism The hope to be admired for ages, is, in by far the greater part of those even who are authors of repute, an unsubstantial dream. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham A clever sally appears brilliant when it breaks suddenly upon the mental vision, but when it is brought forward for close examination it loses half its lustre, and seems to melt into unsubstantial air. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Obstacles which had appeared insurmountable at sunrise, showed now as unsubstantial and evanescent as shadows. The Miller Of Old Church Such is the best preparation for still learning, how much that wears the appearance of wisdom and science unsubstantial. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society A horse, which was hitched to something unsubstantial among those fragments, came forward to welcome me. Russian Rambles We both saw a large pale light—as large as the human figure but shapeless and unsubstantial—move before us, and ascend the stairs that led from the landing into the attics. The Best Ghost Stories He breathed on the ex-member like a god, and played with him like a juggler; he tossed him into the air and kept him there, a radiant, unsubstantial thing. The Helpmate Every sound was hushed into silence, every object appeared as unsubstantial as a shadow. The Miller Of Old Church To build an air-castle, one's own personality must be the central prop and pillar, for even anything as unsubstantial as an air-castle has its building law. The Debtor A Novel The confidence that early years implant in the mind supplies an unsubstantial substitute. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future There remains only one accusation to be answered; viz., that it hints at a paltry and unsubstantial material: and this leads us to the second question. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character Only when vitality is low do people find material things oppressive and ideal things unsubstantial. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Through the intervening space of rain they seemed like pictures of spectres, misty and unsubstantial. Pee-Wee Harris Adrift His house was a meagre and unsubstantial building; the air easily entered through the walls. History Of Ancient Civilization Sometimes it is the idealised counterpart of an actual woman, but not infrequently it is a vague, unsubstantial shadow. The Evolution of Love But he paused, convinced in a moment of the perfect futility of attempting to convey an idea of the unsubstantial phantom to the old man's intellect. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales The buggies, unsubstantial as they look, are comfortable enough when one is seated; but the access, between, through, and over the wheels, is unpleasantly suggestive for the nervous. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin He had turned to the thought of her as a last resort for soothing and reassurance, and now, in the chilly dawn, even she seemed unsubstantial. None Other Gods A violent impulse to set upon and beat these unsubstantial wraiths to the ground frightened General D'Hubert. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale This display of philanthropy was set down universally for a stage-trick; and men quickened their eyes, lest such unsubstantial shows in the distant horizon might be designed to withdraw their attention from the foreground. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte There is something so unsubstantial about most of them. Money Island Such think that angels can have no power because they are spiritual and are even so pure and unsubstantial that no eye can see them. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell They will all have faded like an unsubstantial pageant, and not left a wrack behind. Is Life Worth Living? When we come to inquire into the appearance of ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon, we find, as we should expect, that they are a vague, unsubstantial copy of their former selves on earth. Greek and Roman Ghost Stories You have proved to me that your love for Adolphus, in the abstract, is as baseless and unsubstantial. Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches Jim had a perplexing sensation of feathery lightness; he felt like a frail snowflake in an unsubstantial world. In the Roaring Fifties Lady Angela, who had just descended the stairs, was standing there, pale and unsubstantial as a shadow, and it seemed to me that her eyes, as she looked across at me, were full of trouble. The Betrayal Perhaps the paucity of inhabitants in proportion to the extent of country and the unsubstantial materials of the houses may contribute to this observation. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants Then it appeared, an unsubstantial shade, difficult both to see and to recognize, yet endowed with a human voice and skilled in prophecy. Greek and Roman Ghost Stories Egypt was on her knees, but the gods were aghast and helpless in the face of the hideous power of the unsubstantial, unimaged God of Israel. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt They who assume the existence of an unsubstantial i.e. immaterial First Cause, outrage every admitted rule and every sound principle of philosophising. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Sir James, however, though no less sorrowful, had no faith; and he made short work of tramping sailors who came to impose on the poor lady with their unsubstantial legends. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton In her white and pearls she was shadowy, unsubstantial, almost spectral, but she raised her glass. The Gay Cockade The tragedy in the box turned play and players to the most unsubstantial of phantoms. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History According to Sa@nkara the Sûtra signifies that the environments of the dreaming soul are not real but mere Mâyâ, i.e. unsubstantial illusion, because they do not fully manifest the character of real objects. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 Matter therefore is the reality and the imagination a nonentity, an unsubstantial idea; or an imagination only.' An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles He sat back in his low arm-chair, his unsubstantial face turned meditatively towards the Magdalen, his hands brought together to support his delicate chin. Idolatry A Romance Her form, too, unsubstantial, unreal, an illusion only, though comeliest of illusions? Some Chinese Ghosts For an instant she gave herself up to delusive visions; and, even after the period of delirium expired, she still dwelt, with an aching eye, upon the air-built and unsubstantial prospect of a reconciliation. Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman The walls are hung with tapestry, the figures of which are faded and look like unsubstantial shapes melting away from sight.... The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy "Alas!" said the Knight; "these are but figments of the imagination—fond dreams as unsubstantial as morning mist, and deceitful as the wandering fire, which lures the ignorant traveller into the morass." The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance And the solid family man fixed his sharp brown eyes full upon the unsubstantial bachelor. Idolatry A Romance The lengthy figure of the unsubstantial Pythagorean was cased in linen garments, almost snow-white, through which his anatomy might be read as distinctly as if his living skeleton was naked before them. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One I should despise myself if it were possible that I could forget the affection of my heart in what appears to me the unsubstantial vanities of life. Turns of Fortune And Other Tales His imagination dwelt in a strange country of dream—a "ghoul-haunted region of Weir," "out of space, out of time"—filled with unsubstantial landscapes and peopled by spectral shapes. Initial Studies in American Letters Albert, I thank thee; my mind is now at ease, and I shall no longer beat the air in vain attempts to discover my accusers; unsubstantial figments of the Father's imagination. The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance This was no unsubstantial apparition,—no brain phantom, to waver and vanish, leaving only an uncomfortable doubt whether it had been at all. Idolatry A Romance Notwithstanding this caution, however, still, when we consider the unsubstantial element on which the battle between them raged—for rage it did—there were frightful alternatives of plunging and sinking between them. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One And what a poor thing it is which they seek—the praise of men, a breath, as unsubstantial and short-lived as the blast of the trumpet which they blew before their selfish benevolence. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII She lifted her arms to her head with a gesture of weariness—as she took out the pins her hair fell on her shoulders in great hanks and masses, golden and unsubstantial as the moon. Joanna Godden It is unsubstantial as the tail of Halley's comet. Round the World in Seven Days But the fabric he had fancied and thought to have built proved unsubstantial. Machiavelli, Volume I He found some early berries in the thickets and they restored his strength a little, but the fare was so thin and unsubstantial that he decided to look for game. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad In the one case we see the unsubstantial bubble, 'A moment white, then melts for ever'; and in the other, the helpless twig swept down by the stream. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII The defeat of Carchemish shattered the unsubstantial fabric into atoms, and gave a death-blow to hopes which no Pharaoh ever entertained afterwards. Ancient Egypt "God and heaven seem unreal—unsubstantial, at any rate—compared with you," said Bressant, striking his hand heavily upon the arm of the rustic bench. Bressant And now it is all gone—like an unsubstantial pageant faded; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) They are empty delusions—profitless, unsubstantial as shadows. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest The monstrous legends of the Purānas continue to be for his mind the realities; while the truths of science are to him phantoms, shadowy and unsubstantial, the outlandish notions of alien and casteless unbelievers. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official In consequence of understanding the twenty-sixth, the four and twenty principles seems to Jiva to be unsubstantial or of no value. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 She clearly realized that she had had a narrow escape from Holmesley; that his attraction for her was transient and unsubstantial, a surface magnetism without real value or promise. Success A Novel And now it is all gone—like an unsubstantial pageant faded; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) He had heard of England and the English, but it was in a shadowy, vague, unsubstantial sort of way, unaccompanied by any fixed idea of government or law. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America And should any one, in any case, be content that his oath should go unkept, on a mere unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept? American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) In this world that is unsubstantial and rotten with abuses and rendered painful, O monarch, do thou practise the ancient customs of men, following the rules and analogies cited above. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 When "the little States gained their point," by forcing through the equal representation of the States in the Senate, the unsubstantial nature of the "national" pretensions of the large States at once became apparent. American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) In his translation of the "Romaunt of the Rose" he belongs to the Middle Ages,—a period of uncontrolled imagination, of unsubstantial creations, of external appearances copied without reflection. A History of English Prose Fiction But dismiss thy fears, and think of them as unsubstantial as the morning mist. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times Rich as he was, therefore, there was something very unsubstantial in his wealth, even to his own apprehension. Sevenoaks That man who, awakened by the scriptures and the experience of the world, beholds every human concern in this world to be unsubstantial, becomes emancipated. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 You might be solitary among the unsubstantial shades, for about you are only comets passing through space, and inscrutable shapes; your neighbours are Cassiopeia and the Great Bear. London River The colour had left her cheeks, violet shadows gathered about her eyes; she seemed more unsubstantial than ever. The Three Black Pennys A Novel He had vanished like a shadow; was he as unsubstantial? The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times And it very frequently happens, that those pleasing impressions on the imagination subsist and produce their effect, even after the understanding has been satisfied of their unsubstantial nature. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) And now it is all gone—like an unsubstantial pageant faded; and between us and the old English themselves a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. The Life of Froude Romantic, indeed, as was Lord Byron's sacrifice of himself to the cause of Greece, there was in the views he took of the means of serving her not a tinge of the unsubstantial or speculative. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals But when the Hungarian nobleman came not, all these dreams began to vanish into thin air, and, like the unsubstantial fabric of a vision, to leave no trace behind them. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood She was very fair to look at; timid as the fawn—as guileless; a creature of poetry, sent to be a dream, and to shed about her a beguiling unsubstantial brightness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 But it is not reality that you see; it is an appearance, thin and unsubstantial as the mist upon the hills. Lewis Rand Here, indeed, was the supreme vulgarity of suffering—and before it his own personal afflictions appeared as unsubstantial as shades. The Wheel of Life Even his ghosts are un-Celtic, misty and unsubstantial phantasms, unlike the embodied revenants of the saga which are in agreement with the Celtic belief that the soul assumed a body in the other world. The Religion of the Ancient Celts She had read somewhere lately that physical delicacy was apt to react on the mind and make one's ideas too fine-spun and unsubstantial. Unleavened Bread The more alone, the nearer to that unsubstantial immortality, the immortality of the name, for great names diminish one another. Tragic Sense Of Life However powerfully and pathetically they may reflect the needs and hopes of the human heart, they are unsubstantial as dreams and afford no foundation on which to build our faith. A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation Of Christmas Browning's world, else so massive and so indubitable, becomes unsubstantial and phantasmal, an illusive pageant in which Truth is present only under a mask, being "forced to manifest itself through falsehood." Robert Browning The second argument is equally unsubstantial, and may be as readily invalidated. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Throughout each day all things around him were dreamlike and unsubstantial, and he performed many actions as automatically as if he had been a somnambulist. The Devil's Garden Neither possession impressed her at the moment as marketable, except in the vivid imagination of Madame, and her social position, at least, was constructed of a very thin and unsubstantial fabric. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage What profit lives in fame and fair renown By unsubstantial rumour idly spread? The Seven Plays in English Verse In the latter year he, cautiously indeed, but not unsubstantially, legislated in the direction of free trade. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines You say that this world is a phantom, unsubstantial, unreal, and that the only reality is above, in Heaven. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn And yet consider with me how poor and unsubstantial a thing this glory is! The Consolation of Philosophy She tried to think of Arthur, but her mental image of him had become as thin and unsubstantial as a shadow. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage This, it will be said, is an unsubstantial return; yet Byron deemed it quite sufficient when he first saw an American edition of his works, coming, as it seemed to him, "from posterity." Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition The hazy figures had an unsubstantial, ghostly look; he might have imagined he had not really seen them had he not heard the leader's shout. The Lure of the North Whether the Universe be created of Matter, or whether it be a Mental Creation in the Mind of THE ALL—it is unsubstantial, non-enduring, a thing of time, space and change. The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece At one time the doomed vessel is an unsubstantial vision, which can pass clean through the Utrecht; at another she is a real craft, whose deck can be boarded by mortal men. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Mystic, lovely, they seemed to float above the earth, as unsubstantial as the clouds from which they rose. The Elephant God Madame was a slender lady, dressed well and plainly, with a Belgian common sense and a Catholic reserve, and André was like a child of wax, delicate and charming and unsubstantial. Mr. Britling Sees It Through For a moment the ghost of a fancy hovered unsubstantial in his mind; and then Annie curtsied as she handed him the cider, and replied to his thanks with, "And welcome kindly, sir." The Hill of Dreams The whole bridge now audibly shook with the pulsation of a step—a soft, furtive step, as of one cautiously groping a way over the unsubstantial flooring. The Port of Missing Men He looked affrightedly around him, and beheld only that gray waste, in which were floating the unsubstantial forms of his comrades. The Downfall Here, as shadows, the ghosts lived a life much like their existence before death, but all was unreal—unsubstantial. Blackfeet Indian Stories Merchandise received from Japan, they allege, does not correspond with samples, and packing is, in almost all cases, miserably unsubstantial. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic And now it is all gone—like an unsubstantial pageant, faded; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson His resolutions, long pondered in the solitude of Saracinesca, had vanished like unsubstantial vapours before a strong fire, and his heart and soul were ablaze. Saracinesca Both horses and buffaloes are shod with shoes of the same unsubstantial material as the men. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama I deal in pure conceits of my own; which have a shapeliness and a unity, however unsubstantial; but you, Braid-Beard, deal in mangled realities. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I There had been declamation in abundance in the French legislature and the journals; but with this unsubstantial evidence the cabinet could not meet the country. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 But Time has dissipated what it could not tarnish, and the process of a thousand years has turned these mighty figures into unsubstantial things. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson "Unless I am the most unsubstantial of dreamers, such a propaganda as I am now putting before you ought to carry our numbers up towards ten thousand within a year or so of its commencement." The History of the Fabian Society Then it seemed as if a grey, ashy dust were falling; and though the clustering districts remained erect, they wore the gloomy, unsubstantial aspect of coals which had ceased to burn. A Love Episode Such a war, however, cannot stand alone; it must be supported, to use the military phrase; unsubstantial and evanescent in itself, it cannot reach far from its base. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 The walls are hung with tapestry, the figures of which are faded, and look like unsubstantial shapes melting away from sight. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists From various allusions, vague and unsubstantial, little touches in the kind, musical voices, I gathered that they believed him to be under the influence of the Good People. Waysiders For the windows are set so lightly in the stone-work, and are so nearly level with the wall, that the whole great building has an unsubstantial card-board air, as if a touch might dint it. Miss Bretherton Unfortunately, the finances of the Op�ra Comique production were almost as unsubstantial as the finance in the other plays, and it did not last long. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" "Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is amorous; And that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?" Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Or if these seem unsubstantial thoughts, that flash and fade again like clouds on the western sky at evening, come out among the flesh-and-blood proofs of them which walk our own day. Four Psalms XXIII. XXXVI. LII. CXXI. Interpreted for practical use All the rewards bestowed upon Lord Cochrane for his wonderful successes in the northern part of Brazil, except the confirmation of his patent as First Admiral, be it noted, were unsubstantial. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I |
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