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So mostly I just vegetate in the basement and pick my navel, to quote Grim, Mr. Belly Button Lint himself. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
But after a while he became convinced that if he was ever going to do anything in Milagro besides vegetate and play the fool, he needed mobility. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“He didn’t influence me. You know what I might do? I might stay right here in this hospital bed and vegetate. I could vegetate very comfortably right here and let other people make the decisions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
I expect as i well it was the sight of my own father, vegetating in his chair by the fire. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
You have this vegetating ball of fibrous masses which eventually will form into what Blake calls Urizen, which is a sort of strange, ambivalent God-like figure. Tate Britain makes room for William Blake art found in railway timetable 2010-08-12T06:00:00Z
The best course is to leave the bulbs untied but surround them with herbaceous plants that emerge as the daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and the rest are flowering and then proceed to vegetate. Lingering leaves of a chilly spring 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z
A Pennsylvanian living in Oxford, Lowe-Porter “did not want to vegetate intellectually” and set herself to translation. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z
I vegetate between steps, and that’s when I listen to music a lot. Both Sides Now: In Conversation With Lorraine O’Grady 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z
Far from vegetating, those at the Metropolitan Playhouse pirouette, leap, cartwheel and even do the can-can and the highland fling. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 17-23 2012-02-16T22:43:37Z
The last vegetated landscape before the rocky Margherita summit camp at 4,485 metres is the magnificent Scott Elliot pass, stately as a Scottish glen with cliffs stained orange with lichen. Mountains of the moon: climbing Uganda's highest peak 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z
There are deserts so sparsely vegetated that they create spread beyond anything Wright imagined for his communities. How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z
But it is the vegetated woodland floor that invites close observation, alive as it is with spring wildflowers that seem to leap from one of those meticulously wrought field drawings of Dürer or Ruskin. What you can learn from a walk through the woods 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z
Urbanization appears to take a greater toll on wild mammals in hotter, less vegetated locales than in cooler, greener ones, according to a new study, which was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on Monday. Urban Animals Can’t Take the Heat, Study Finds 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z
“Given an exceptionally wet winter and cool spring, larger fires in sparsely vegetated areas that are typically ‘fuel limited’ should be expected due to the extra vegetation growth such conditions foster,” he said. California’s Largest Wildfire of the Year Sweeps Across the Mojave 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z
Storm water management requirements have spurred the creation of vegetated ditches known as bioswales to reduce runoff when it rains. Corporate Landscaping Lets Its Hair Down 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z
Scientists have previously studied dunes in the lab by creating vegetated dunes in metal troughs called wave tanks. In a twist, beach grass could make dunes more vulnerable to storms 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z
A long-distance lorry driver, he said he had no option but to pay privately or "sit and do nothing, vegetate and slow up". NI Health: 'More people than ever paying for private healthcare' 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z
The state said the work destroyed 8 acres of vegetated dunes, including 6.7 acres of critical wildlife habitat, and 1.1 acres of freshwater wetlands. NJ fines defiant shore town $12M over unapproved beach work 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z
The state also noted that North Wildwood continues to flout a 2020 order to restore 12 acres of mature, vegetated dunes that were removed for a different unauthorized seawall project. Sand storm: NJ sues town that fixed eroded beach despite ban 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z
The state Department of Ecology also recommends preserving natural areas by utilizing permeable pavement, compost-amended soils, vegetated roofs and rainwater collection systems, like cisterns. Rain gardens offer benefits that go beyond beauty | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z
The take-home point of paper is “more about managing expectations” of vegetated dunes, Feagin says. In a twist, beach grass could make dunes more vulnerable to storms 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z
Soil — As much as 10% of the earth’s vegetated surface is now at least moderately degraded. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z
Marshes are vegetated with common sand and mud. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
A Reuters witness saw a boat with police and firefighters conducting dives in a murky vegetated area along the edge of the Itacoaí River and preparing a canoe to search the shallows. Brazilian suspect held for 30 days in case of missing British journalist 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z
"The co-benefit of retrofitting buildings is also making buildings more heat resistant with cool reflective paints, cool roofs, green roofs, vegetated walls, in addition to solar panels." Too hot to handle: Crumbling US infrastructure melts under excessive heat 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z
Overall, the vegetated dune lost 22% more sand than the bare dune because of erosion. In a twist, beach grass could make dunes more vulnerable to storms 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z
With these “multispectral” data, researchers can monitor how “green” or productive a vegetated landscape is. Satellites offer new ways to study ecosystems—and maybe even save them 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z
“In 2 years, the golden mussel transformed the lake’s sandy beaches and vegetated margins into piles of dark and stinky shells,” Mansur recalls. Golden mussels are devastating South American rivers. The Amazon may be next 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z
The fire, fanned by strong winds, affected at least six communities in the foothills of the Troodos mountain range, an area of pine forest and densely vegetated shrubland. Cyprus seeks aid from EU and Israel as huge forest fire rages 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z
Made up of local efforts across 11 countries, it has reached just 16% of its overall goal to vegetate 150 million hectares. The Great Green Wall could save Africa. But can the massive forestry effort learn from past mistakes? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z
And vegetated dunes have advantages over concrete walls for storm protection, because native plants can grow and spread. In a twist, beach grass could make dunes more vulnerable to storms 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z
During her many spells in hospital she didn't want to sit on her bed and "vegetate." Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: 'Did air pollution kill my daughter?' 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z
Australian scientists determined that there were about 64,000 green turtles waiting to lay eggs on Raine Island — a vegetated coral cay on the outer edges of the Great Barrier Reef — significantly more than thought. World’s largest turtle colony nearly twice as big as thought 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z
Australian scientists determined that there were about 64,000 green turtles waiting to lay eggs on Raine Island - a vegetated coral cay on the outer edges of the Great Barrier Reef - significantly more than thought. World's largest green turtle colony nearly twice as big as thought 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z
If he just sits there and vegetates, he ain't going anywhere. Temple Grandin: intelligence has a steep price 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z
Even in that condition he went to law offices in Atlanta every day he could, chiefly to keep from vegetating. The last days of Bobby Jones - Golf Digest 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z
In other words, with less vegetated landscapes, the removal of atmospheric CO2 by silicate rock weathering would see less ‘push back’ on short timescales. The Real Riverworld 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z
According to the DNA analyses, the L0 lineage split 130,000 years ago when some of the founder population moved north-east along a green vegetated route that opened up as rains drenched the arid land. Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, study finds 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z
Few cities match metropolitan Washington’s extraordinary amount of tree-covered, vegetated open space. Why trees aren’t just colorful fall features for our region’s neighborhoods 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z
But when Category 5 Hurricane Michael washed ashore last October it created the sparsely vegetated conditions the birds prefer. Threatened bird snowy plover thrives after Hurricane Michael 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z
Birds were mainly restricted to vegetated areas where their small body size and agility were advantageous. Pterosaurs Were Monsters of the Mesozoic Skies 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z
Of the 3.2bn ha of treeless land, 1.5bn ha is used for growing food, leaving 1.7bn of potential forest land in areas that were previously degraded or sparsely vegetated. Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z
The fastest accumulation of carbon occurs in vegetated coastal habitats such as mangroves, saltmarshes and seagrass beds, research shows, which also protect communities from storms. Let nature heal climate and biodiversity crises, say campaigners 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z
It turns out that this low-canopy, sparsely vegetated woodland ecosystem supports an incredible diversity of wildlife. Biological annihilation: A planet in loss mode 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z
Malibu is the capital of the southern California “fire coast” that exists where communities have been built at the canyon mouths of densely vegetated coastal mountains. A tale of two wildfires: devastation highlights California's stark divide 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z
The wildland-urban interface regions show where housing is near, or surrounded by, vegetated areas within California. Americans Are Moving Closer to Nature, and Into Fire Zones 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z
Others will stay, but will just “rest and vest,” vegetating until they gain ownership of their stock options. Facebook and the Age of Manipulation 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z
It affects almost every vegetated part of the state, from the conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains to the oak woodlands lower down and, in the valleys, the grasslands and chaparral. What Trump gets wrong about wildfires, by a fire scientist 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z
And the dunes, heavily vegetated, are a vestige of the way the whole coast used to look. Hurricane Michael is looking even more violent on closer scrutiny 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z
At Surfers Point in Ventura County, officials turned an eroding parking lot and collapsing bike path into a cobble beach backed by vegetated dune. Climate change will be deadlier, more destructive and costlier for California than previously believed, state warns 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z
The wildland-urban interface regions show where housing is near, or surrounded by, vegetated areas within California. Americans Are Moving Closer to Nature, and Into Fire Zones 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z
A review paper he recently co-authored found that people living in less vegetated areas had a 5% higher risk of death from heat-related causes. Heat: the next big inequality issue 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z
Setting the hairless human form against the sparsely vegetated land, Aguilar’s work is not Lawrence’s quest for “abnegation, renunciation, self-restraint” but rather a celebration of the rapport that can exist between body and topography. From Lawrence of Arabia to Breaking Bad: the desert as a cultural oasis 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z
The zone stretches along the coast from Maine to Rhode Island and includes areas of rocky or vegetated habitats, as well as sandy areas nearby. NOAA says new protections will help young cod grow 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z
After the first aerial sweep, ground hunters with specialized dogs went into heavily vegetated parts of the island to flush out goats that had survived the initial onslaught. Could Genetic Engineering Save the Galápagos? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z
The wildland-urban interface regions show where housing is near, or surrounded by, vegetated areas within California. Americans Are Moving Closer to Nature, and Into Fire Zones 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z
There’s a concrete-capped steel sheet pile bulkhead along the boardwalk and a vegetated sand dune north to the state line. $12.7M contract awarded for Ocean City beach project 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z
It was first discovered – and killed – on the tiny vegetated coral island of Bramble Cay by Europeans in 1845. The 10 species most at risk from climate change 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z
And without work he and his wife began to feel that they were vegetating. The Heroism of Incremental Care 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z
The rule includes increasing vegetated buffer widths on streams from 10 feet to 25 feet for small farms, and creating 10 feet wide vegetated buffers on field ditches for all farms. Vermont farmers to testify on proposed agriculture rule 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z
In 19 years, Ramu Gaviti’s six acres of land have gone from barren, dry and sparsely vegetated to fertile, moist and thick with biomass. Indian farmers fight against climate change using trees as a weapon 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z
The home strives for energy efficiency—with a geothermal system, radiant floor heating and cooling and a vegetated rooftop to keep the house cooler in the summer. A Utah Home With a Sweeping Mountain View 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z
“It doesn’t block her view of the city, and all of his lower roofs are vegetated to blend in more.” Relative beauty: a brother and sister’s complementary homes on Bainbridge Island 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z
The green vegetated areas along the islands are usually wider and older “complex” barrier islands. Satellite Eye on Earth: August 2016 - in pictures 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z
Constructing a setback levee to the west to protect the lake from the river that is vegetated with trees to create a more natural, forested shoreline providing wildlife habitat and shade for anglers. Changes in store for popular string of Tucannon Lakes 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z
He said: “Dear young people, we didn’t come into this work to ‘vegetate,” to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. The Latest: Organizers say 1.6 million at event with pope 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z
From the ground, surales look like large, vegetated mounds separated by swampy ditches.  Mysterious Mounds in South America Are Likely Worm Poop
The area will be surrounded by a vegetated 50-foot buffer and a fence. Fairbanks borough pot business 1 step closer to operation 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z
For them, as for most of us, plants were just there in the background, vegetating away. There Is Such a Thing as Plant Intelligence
At Epping Way, Brooks and his wife Virginia raised cattle and kept peacocks on their lushly vegetated land. Fabled Memphis tract to be key part of Wolf River Greenway 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z
The landscape consists of low-lying, densely vegetated barrier islands built of sediments washed down the Mississippi long before the Army Corps of Engineers began to dam up the river. Can a Naturalist Go Fishing in Fragile Waters? [Excerpt] 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z
One-fourth of the Earth’s vegetated surface is seeing much longer fire seasons, according to U.S. Smoke From Wildfires Is Killing Hundreds of Thousands of People 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z
Jim Gilbert, an attorney representing Sea Island Co., argued that regulations were overly strict, requiring disturbed buffers to be restored to “their naturally vegetated state.” Georgia editorial roundup 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z
Yet public parks account for only a fraction of the city’s vegetated open space. California drought reinforces appreciation of D.C.’s botanical bounty 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z
It also changes the management designation on less than a square mile to allow riders to go anywhere they want, including 53.5 miles of user-created routes through vegetated areas. Forest Service issues decision on Oregon dunes, off-road use 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z
These boreal forests and other vegetated areas are like the mint plant. Satellite Treats Earth as Terrarium 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z
“Our goal is not to get people stoned so they sit in corner and vegetate,” he said. With the E-Joint, the Smoke Clears 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z
The solitary and elusive mountain lion lives in mountainous or heavily vegetated areas and generally tries to avoid humans, according to state wildlife experts. Motorist kills mountain lion on busy California freeway 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z
Dr. Savage and her colleagues sampled 32 sites north of 59th Street in Manhattan, including urban parks, forests found within parks and vegetated road medians along Broadway. The Ants of Manhattan 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z
Sandy overwashed the area, pushing sand back and creating ideal, sparsely vegetated habitat for plovers, he said. Piping plovers plunge to record low in New Jersey 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z
The measurement is key, since more than half the planet's vegetated land area -- 25 million square miles, four times the size of Russia—freezes in the wintertime and halts photosynthesis. Satellite Treats Earth as Terrarium 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z
Although these findings may only apply to similar shrubland environments, a similar distance to heavily vegetated areas has also been identified for some forested environments, based on radiant heat exposure to structures77, 96. Learning to coexist with wildfire : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z
Their first crop grew too tall because of air conditioning problems, which forced them to allow the plants extra time vegetating while they fought the temperature and humidity. As they work out kinks, pot growers strive to meet demand 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z
Her body was discovered on April 22 by two people walking through the heavily vegetated area. Body of rape victim was found 1 month after report 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z
In San Marcos, firefighters on the ground and in the air fought to save homes as the flare-up sent flames running up a slope in a heavily vegetated area. Flare-up keeps San Diego fire situation tenuous 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z
While most of the region endured dry, freezing weather, pockets of "refugia," or vegetated areas not affected by climate change, remained scattered along the Bering land bridge throughout the LGM period. How Climate Change Spurred a 10,000-Year Ice Age Journey 2014-03-13T14:05:00Z
They exist in dangerous limbo between vibrant vegetated ecosystems and desolate deserts. Tigers in the Desert: The Mysteries of Vegetation Patterns 2013-07-18T15:45:02.980Z
It will see a swale - a shallow, vegetated channel - installed on a local playing field. £15m to beat surface water floods 2013-06-22T13:47:15Z
In some places, herbivores –consumers of algae or marsh grass – have increased, often because top predators are reduced in numbers, and have reduced the area of vegetated marsh as a result of overgrazing.  The Not-So-Mysterious Loss of Salt Marshes and Ecosystem Services 2013-03-12T15:15:05.280Z
Deep in the densely vegetated village some 20 kilometers from the nearest paved road, the ground is parched and dust flies into the air as brightly-costumed Venda women dance to entertain their world-famous guest. Federer plays big brother to village children 2013-02-20T19:57:18Z
I will vegetate or be left to die. Tory council faces judicial review 2013-01-22T18:45:36Z
Just looking at what he called "intra-urban" ecosystem services, he said it was known that city trees and shrubs reduced particulate concentrations and "vegetated urban areas experienced lowers temperatures". Wellbeing helps conservation case 2012-12-19T15:00:04Z
"If you leave dunes alone and they are healthy and vegetated, it's pretty convincing that they will protect inland communities from storm surge," Dr. Brody said. Green Blog: Sand Dunes Alone Will Not Save the Day 2012-12-04T22:03:02Z
"To sit and vegetate is not my scene, I've got to keep myself active," he said. Transplant patient marks 30 years 2012-11-08T17:29:32Z
But why am I lighting out so determined and sudden, instead of vegetating here half me life? Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z
If perseverance does not fail me, I shall succeed," said he, between his teeth; "otherwise, I shall vegetate as a country squire, never amounting to anything. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z
Men who vegetate sink prematurely into old age. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z
"But in terms of the greater good, there probably should be a stronger emphasis on protecting our existing dunes and making sure they're naturally vegetated, and also building and restoring degraded dunes." Green Blog: Sand Dunes Alone Will Not Save the Day 2012-12-04T22:03:02Z
Most of the monks, more indulgent, were content with renouncing the world, vegetating in solitude, languishing in sloth, and living in absolute idleness at the expence of nations who toil. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z
In commencing this chapter upon botany, I deem it proper to mention first the forest trees, confining myself to those vegetating in Antigua. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z
He vegetated rather than lived; and if in these circumstances any wish arose in him, it was the wish to be annihilated. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z
Mr. and Mrs. Smallweed vegetated, with their grandchildren, “in a rather ill-favoured and ill-savoured neighbourhood, though one of its rising grounds bears the name of Mount Pleasant.” Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z
You can sit down and vegetate for a while, without being called upon to make any intellectual exertion whatever. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z
Nations vegetated in inactivity; men cultivated only monastic virtues, grievous to themselves and useless to society. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z
It grows upon a twining vine, and vegetates best in a clayey land. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z
Mrs. Guy, widow of the late Admiral Guy, vegetating for years past upon her slight income in Jersey, was Major Carlen's younger sister, and a smaller edition of himself. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z
The cress and lettuce have just vegetated well after twenty-one days' immersion. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z
The State in which there is much that is rotten may vegetate for a while in peace, but in war its weakness is revealed. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z
Discouragement invaded her heart, she began to feel that she was vegetating and not living. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z
Birds arrive and leave droppings that help vegetate the future dunes. Green Blog: A Second Chance for Christmas Trees 2011-12-30T19:40:43Z
From the point, therefore, at which the animal has delivered itself from the egg or the womb in which it vegetated without consciousness, its food must be sought out and selected. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z
It merely vegetates at the whim of the mighty Czar, to whom it has become the obedient servant. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z
But at the Cape one can take time to vegetate and enjoy his existence. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z
Whilst the vagabond son of the coalman was growing up gay and frolicsome, in lean melancholy vegetated the dolorous scion of the sublime Emperor. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z
No great inward commotion has ever visited them; they vegetate tamely on till they reach the grave. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z
It suggests no more enterprises to the decrepitude of age, which vegetates along, drawing interest merely on the investment of its earlier enterprises. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z
And yet there are thousands who seem to live without purpose,—live merely to vegetate. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z
The whole root system is disturbed and has to re-establish itself before the top vegetates very strongly once more. Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada 2011-11-17T03:00:30.320Z
Is not the alderman—the Lord Mayor, perhaps, of next year—riding in his gilt chariot, more worthy much than Samuel Johnson in the attic vegetating on fourpence-halfpenny a day? Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z
Dr. Dwight remarks that the seeds of American forest trees will not vegetate when dropped on grassland. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z
I awoke as from sleep, and thought how I had vegetated these last days; for feeling leaves little trace on the memory if it be, like mine, unvaried. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z
In this way was sown the first grain of "mustard seed," which was destined soon to vegetate and grow to a tree of gigantic proportions. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z
The nuts vegetating, it becomes a cornucopœia of young sprouting plants, which at length break loose from their confinement, and take root in the mud. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z
Some rush, to deaden feeling, into drunkenness and other vices, or sink into insensibility, and passively vegetate from one day to the next. John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z
Black-tailed deer thrive in heavily vegetated habitats and are generally nocturnal in nature. Deer hunt opens Saturday | Hunting season preview 2011-10-11T01:54:04Z
"One vegetates elsewhere, one lives only in Paris," added her husband, "and perhaps a little in London." The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z
Now all this time that the vagabond son of the charcoal-burner was growing up in merriment and mischief, the moody scion of His Sacred Majesty the Emperor was vegetating like a weed in moody melancholy. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z
These tower to a height of about 1,200 ft. in great terraces and vegetated walls above the north and north-east ends of the lake. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z
Others vegetated around the hotel, a rare luxury, to rest tired muscles and frayed nerves. Cardinals 11, Mets 6: Refreshed Mets Resume Spoiler Role 2011-09-21T03:58:42Z
Besides, his muscles and above all his hands were pitifully soft after an indoor winter and his fortnight of vegetating. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z
You must banish your puerile fears, otherwise he will vegetate like a good-for-nothing in rags and misery, where you are, instead of being like me. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z
Prevented from developing along his own lines, and constitutionally incapable of adapting himself to the ways of his Spanish conquerors, the Indian vegetated, learning nothing and forgetting much that he knew. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z
It should be mentioned here, however, that all bulbs do not vegetate in the same way. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z
Hereabout, or in near counties, where he has parochial duties, he vegetates slumberously, for twenty years or more. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z
Eastern lubbers tend to prefer open pine woods, weedy fields and heavily vegetated roadsides, usually along drainage ditches, according to University of Florida researchers. Creepy-looking lubbers make short-lived splash in Southeast 2011-08-25T19:10:52Z
Sum shows the total percentage of vegetated land areas with either decreased or increased trends. [Technical Response] Response to Comments on ?Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009? 2011-08-25T18:25:30.670Z
Where the animal propensities are weak and the intellect feeble, a vegetating national life results. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z
A place where a man could develop—grow, not vegetate.” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
My father's health is failing, and he has long desired his son's company; but Carsluith was always ambitious, and used to say he would never vegetate in poverty at Culmeny. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z
The plant vegetates, and its vegetation 123 is a development, a becoming. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z
The system grows torpid, the energies die, indifference takes possession, and thus he vegetates—he does not live. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z
Government has made the most praiseworthy efforts to remedy the evil, to raise the peasantry from the sink of ignorance in which they vegetate. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z
The operetta, too, is vegetating; the pantomime serves hardly to amuse the children. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z
While he yet vegetated in the gymnasium he was a Frosch--a frog. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z
People could not be said to live—they merely vegetated. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z
Look here, Marcia, how long do you suppose I can stand it to vegetate here in Canada? A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z
After moving a blind closer to the shore I noted that once an adult arrived at the open or sparsely vegetated shoreline, that adult restricted itself to a certain portion of the shoreline. Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima 2011-06-01T02:00:28.030Z
It is held also that innumerable seeds of plants still capable of vegetation, lie in strata far below the earth's surface, finding the occasion to vegetate only by the rarest and most exceptional occurrences.—Carpenter, The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z
In their own land they vegetate and wither unnoticed; here we pay them highly to marry and perpetuate a pauper prince-race. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z
It saved their life from being a dead monotony, and their minds from vegetating; and diverted them from sorrowful regrets and recollections. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z
The 9,000-kilometre vibrant and productive Brazilian coastline is covered with vegetated ecosystems that together contain hundreds of millions of tonnes of such carbon, at least. Add coastal vegetation to the climate critical list 2011-05-18T17:20:06.780Z
Since then, vegetating rather than living with the mother of Aminta, Signora Rovero was unwilling to trust her daughter's preserver to servants, when she heard of the death of her son-in-law. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z
They must have the gaieties and splendors of a great metropolis, and are not content to vegetate upon the dim verge of this remote frontier. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z
These, with all their flock of emanations and spectrous or vegetating shadows, let us leave to the discretion of Los; who has enough on his hands among them all. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
There was no passion, bold or mean, no jealousy, no intrigues, vegetating ever so rankly or rifely in the oldest and largest court of Europe, which did not flourish in that of Don Carlos. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z
"Some good has come of her vegetating in Oldchester," said Pauline to her husband. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z
I look back into the regions of reminiscence and behold our ancient days, before the earth appeared in its vegetated mortality to my mortal vegetated eyes. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z
They don't know enough to vegetate any more than I had sense to know I was becoming a machine. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z
I never was made to exist under ground; and when I am obliged to, what wonder that I vegetate, like other unfortunate plants—grow wan, spindling, and white! My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel 2011-03-30T02:00:13.113Z
Sorrel.—Sorrel is found in a wild state nearly everywhere; that is, where green plants vegetate. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z
My brother here has mistaken notions about the respectability of trade, and is content to vegetate.” The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z
Such a youngster should not be allowed to vegetate in a village like this.” The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z
The lower classes of animals, of ephemeral existence, are found on every living or vegetating body. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z
He vegetates as completely as any one I have ever seen or dreamed of. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z
This last, found vegetating in almost every temple, is a young lad of poor parentage sent thither to be taken care of out of charity. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z
To vegetate in this out-of-the-way place when he should be watching over the welfare of his country, and as a nobleman of that land, striving to stem the tide of democracy. The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z
Well, I suppose you would call it that, yes; at least, I say, when one has the means let one live, not vegetate in some little hole and corner place. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z
Thus, half in earnest, half jestingly, Massingbred talked away, little thinking how deeply many a random speech entered into his friend's heart, taking firm root there to grow and vegetate hereafter. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z
The land was well vegetated, with forests as well as open areas, he said. Tracks of two prehistoric birds found in Alaska 2011-01-31T23:57:44Z
He was bred according to nature, that is to say, after the fashion of savages; his joys revolved in the narrow, wretched circle in which the primitive inhabitants of the globe vegetate. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z
These are spores of a very influential vegetable, called alg�, which spreads like cholera and vegetates anywhere in water that is not of torrential temperament. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z
He should have been a warrior, not a preacher of the Gospel; but if the circumstances which produce the man had not arisen, he might have vegetated and died in obscurity in his mountain village. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z
Will you vegetate on and on till every illusion has been killed, and you have thrown everything overboard that was once dear and sacred to you? Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z
At Batavia he vegetated for a while in his hotel; and it was generally assumed that he would go to Europe. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z
The idea is finding recognition among them that all the prizes of progress are no longer to be allowed to go to the man-life on the farm while the woman-life is left to vegetate. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z
In his eyes, the success of a thing answers for its quality, and the charlatanism that succeeds is superior to the merit that vegetates. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z
He felt that at last he had begun to live; hitherto he had only vegetated, but now he was entering on the full life of a man. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z
The oryx is a desert-dwelling antelope, can live without water, and grows fat even on the plants that thinly vegetate over the barren soil. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z
And then at last I shall receive my dismissal—or ask for it—and go to Sukabumi to live, to vegetate on a small pension. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z
Newton and his peers believed it was possible to prompt metals to grow, or “vegetate,” in a flask. Moonlighting as a Conjurer of Chemicals 2010-10-11T20:50:00Z
Workers doing grading for the substation also uncovered signs of plant life that indicate marsh reeds and birch, pine, sycamore and oak trees once grew in the area that is now dry and sparsely vegetated. Calif. Utility Stumbles on 1.4M Years Old Fossils 2010-09-21T03:59:00Z
Young pot plants start off with two weeks under grow lights shining 18 to 24 hours a day, helping the plants vegetate. Special Report: High finance and corporate pot, California style 2010-07-23T12:17:00Z
The military calls these areas “the green zone,” a nickname derived from how they appear from the air — pockets of vegetated terrain that end abruptly where the irrigation stops. Afghans Seek Medical Aid, Posing Difficult Choice for U.S. 2010-05-29T01:10:00Z
They were right below her, 10 yards away on a flat, vegetated ridge. Can Animals Be Gay? 2010-04-01T19:34:00Z
Colonel Christmas looked over the outpost’s southern wall at the vegetated terrain beyond the canal. Snipers Imperil U.S. Troops in Offensive in Afghanistan 2010-02-18T01:00:00Z
All the footprints were formed on mudflats that experts believe were the size of the Florida Keys, and which were miles from vegetated land. 2010-01-20T12:52:00Z
While I was wandering about the world, or vegetating down in the country, I actually used to get a kind of comfort out of it. The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben) A Play in Five Acts
The various regions of the globe are not less characterized by the form and grouping of the plants which have been allotted to them, than by the comparative activity of their vegetating power. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History
They do not grow in hedges, nor vegetate in meadows. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10
The blossom falls and the fruit withers and decays; but here the similitude fails, for, though lost for the present, the season returns, the tree vegetates anew, and the blossom again puts forth. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams
The mass of men are only living in an ambiguous sense; they linger or vegetate in life, they do not really live. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Cañizares says the vegetated shore was "east" and the arid shore was "west." The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California
They'd rather stand aside and vegetate in a mental backwater on twopence a year, thinking, 'We are still Lovelaces,' and learning nothing, nothing. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune
He was found dead one morning in his room; his descendants are vegetating some in the city, some in the country. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster
For almost a century and a half the Bohemian and German races vegetated in a dreary dream life. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II.
Ord's kangaroo rat is found in sparsely vegetated flatlands throughout Harding County, although it appears to be uncommon except in localized areas of relatively sandy soils. Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota
All that is needed is that they vegetate, in order that you may reign in their stead. The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter
Instead of vegetating, prisoners in the depths of their houses, they lead an active and laborious life.  Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2
In the case of the Sphagnum, the upper part vegetates while the lower part is entering into a mineral mass, in which the traces of organization remain when life has entirely ceased. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology
The curiae and the gentes composing them now were degraded to mere private and religious congregations, analogous to their Attic prototypes, and as such they vegetated on for a long time. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
You speak of vegetating, and you ask if Miss Holden is living her life. Windyridge
Have not the descendants of our haughty Roman Emperors gone in their imbecile idleness to vegetate in Constantinople, where they still indulge the dreams of Universal Empire? The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century
When a man is knocking about the world he is inclined to envy the people who can vegetate peacefully at home, but thirty-six years of stagnation is a killing business!” An Unknown Lover
Branches of the same ferns which now flourish in the island are found completely petrified, preserving the same appearance as when vegetating, except that they acquire an ash-gray color. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology
Only in the East, in the Grecian part of the empire, some commerce still vegetated, but this is outside of the scope of our study. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
If one has the opportunity to live is it sufficient to vegetate? Windyridge
I believe—and Stephen agrees with me—that if we settle here now it will practically mean vegetating for the rest of our lives. The Daughters of a Genius
Year after year she had vegetated in the same small place. An Unknown Lover
Bless my life, on my dried-up old place it’s a case of vegetating day after day—counting out—looking around—counting in. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt
It is the Divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body. Ideas of Good and Evil
Here the land is almost industrialized, as in England; and elsewhere vegetates, in various traditional forms, the stupid peasant, as in Italy and in Austria, and in the latter country more than in the former. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History
It must not be supposed, however, that every seed will vegetate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865
While the greater part of the villagers were thus vegetating, the teacher had awakened to a double existence. Black Forest Village Stories
Surrounded by endless restrictions of etiquette, lacking both the stimulus that comes from physical toil and that to be derived from intellectual exertion, the ladies of this class of the nobility simply vegetated. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition
These act more readily on the vegetating cells than on the more resistant spores. Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying
The poor beast is supposed capable of vegetating until the return of the period for shooting requires his services. The Dog
Mr. Jones tells us that the currents bring numberless objects animate and inanimate from the Carribean Sea, including the seeds of trees, shrubs, and other plants, which are continually cast ashore and sometimes vegetate. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
The fruits dropping into the sea from trees growing on any shores would be carried by tides and currents to be cast up and to vegetate on distant coasts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher"
And so he might have continued to vegetate during the remainder of his service there, but for a new acquaintance that he made about this time. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1
The spores will not be destroyed by any pasteurizing process, and under commercial conditions, vegetating bacteria are also present. Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying
Why do they vegetate down here in Old Chester? An Old Chester Secret
Seeds may lie dormant for many years and then vegetate, while they endure extremes of heat, of cold, of drought, or of moisture which would almost always be fatal to animal germs. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
All agreed that she must rest, vegetate, lead the life of an invalid. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind
"Ask Mr. Durant; he'll tell you that we vegetate all day and play whist all night." The Return of the Prodigal
This destroys all of the vegetating cells but not the resistant spores that may be present. Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying
Most men thus circumstanced contrive to buy or brutally manage to enforce their independence; but many vegetate without hope, strangled by parasites. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
Not being capable of elevating himself high enough or falling low enough to reign over the lives of men, he lives or rather vegetates with a keen feeling of his mediocrity, which makes him despair. Contemporary Russian Novelists
Remarks.—Most of these mice were taken in densely vegetated fallow fields, where both grass and brush were found. Mammals from Tamaulipas, Mexico
Of course, you needn't vegetate, living in the country, but the wife of Jim Graham probably would. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons
In this, the vegetating bacteria will not be wholly destroyed. Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying
His Excellency meditates upon his good luck, his titles, his decorations, harvested in a single year of war, after he had vegetated for nine-and-thirty years in peace and mediocrity. The Forerunners
The great desire of the three sisters is to go to Moscow, but their apathy keeps them in the country, and they continue to vegetate while philosophizing about everything that they see. Contemporary Russian Novelists
Sets were made along well-used trails leading from a densely vegetated arroyo into a corn field through openings in a fence of roughly piled logs. Mammals from Tamaulipas, Mexico
While the women vegetated at home, they went out into the world. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons
For nine years I have been vegetating in this miserable hole. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day
In those countries which are but little developed, industrially and commercially these two classes still vegetate side by side with the rising bourgeoisie. Manifesto of the Communist Party
Seed should always be of the previous year's growth, or it may not vegetate. Soil Culture
Really Miss Hawkins made a better figure in a rage, than when merely vegetating. When Ghost Meets Ghost
He sleeps, eats, drinks, goes to school, comes home, runs out into the garden, sleeps, eats, drinks again and so on, vegetates like the plants in the sunshine. The Son of His Mother
Mr. Tiralla did nothing now but vegetate, sleep and drink, drink and sleep. Absolution
It is to the credit of these Misses Strickland that they did not vegetate in that old house, but held a fair position in the world of letters.  East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations
The difficulty in raising seedling pear-trees is the failure of the seeds to vegetate. Soil Culture
There vegetated in the most sordid uncleanliness the subjects of the kingdom of beggary. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country,”—which is the gist of all that can be said upon the matter. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25)
"How the mushrooms have vegetated hereabouts," thought Moran, as he glanced up at the stack of the old work engine, but he was never much of a kicker, so he would not kick now. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike
The ray fungus is found in nature vegetated on grasses, on the awns of barley, the spears of oats, and on other grains. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
When this is not done, seeds will vegetate very unevenly, and, in dry weather, some of them not at all. Soil Culture
The seeds are sown, and vegetate with inconceivable rapidity, and, in a few weeks, an abundant harvest of every kind of grain covers the land. The History of Sandford and Merton
Recent investigations tend to confirm the distinct specific characters of the species found on different plants, and to prove that the parasite of one host will not vegetate upon another, however closely allied. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses
A general paralytic in his last stage is little more than a vegetating ruin, in whom the nervous activities are decomposed little by little, after the gradual disappearance of all the mental faculties. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study
In the larynx and the bronchi tubercles may vegetate upon the mucous membrane, and ulcers may result from their breaking down. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
It must be sown quite thick, on account of its proneness not to vegetate. Soil Culture
It merely vegetates,  fleeing from enemies who are too strong for it, and depriving itself of a dangerous comfort. The Industries of Animals
In the month of May it buries itself in the earth and begins to vegetate. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses
In certain animals and plants, groups of cells vegetate in buds which separate from the body later on and form a new individual; this occurs among the polypi and plants with bulbs, etc. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study
As this bacillus vegetates and increases in numbers it excretes substances which act as irritants and poisons and which lead to the formation of a small nodule, called a tubercle, at the point of irritation. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
The seed is small, and may not vegetate well in dry, warm weather, without a little shade or regular watering. Soil Culture
They vegetate in this condition for a long time, and may still be found there in May. The Industries of Animals
The earliest condition in which the mushroom can be recognized as a vegetable entity is in that of the “spawn” or mycelium, which is essentially an agglomeration of vegetating spores. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses
Ideas vegetate in human blood; revolutions descend from the scaffold. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848
Tuberculin is a drug prepared by sterilizing, filtering, and concentrating the liquids in which the tubercle bacillus has been allowed to vegetate. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
Trying the quality of seeds is important, as it may save loss and disappointment, from sowing seeds that will not vegetate. Soil Culture
And in all the changes of future years I shall vegetate here without change, and without hope except in the better world. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend
The filaments in and on the substratum are the first existing members of the fungus; they continue so long as it vegetates. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses
The place has no striking features, and seems to vegetate in the way common to Irish country towns. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
The other diplomatic agents appear to be here merely to vegetate and kill time, sometimes at what they call the Court, sometimes with each other. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX
Seeds placed on that wool, will vegetate sooner than they would do in the soil. Soil Culture
We either drowse or vegetate in and for the past. England and Germany
Resolved to discharge all my duties, I lived, or rather vegetated, in this existence, so unoccupied and objectless as all marriages contracted without love must be. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851
"It is a wonder that we do not wholly vegetate," said Ellen. The Elm Tree Tales
Steamboats are rare in the Buckinghamshire hills, among which he had vegetated ever since their invention. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice
Seeds planted in soil left coarse and uneven, will vegetate unevenly, grow unequally, ripen at different times, and produce unequal quantities. Soil Culture
The dogs and cats vegetated rather than lived. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories
Never beholding any of their race but the queen and a few dried-up and ugly spinsters, the poor creatures vegetate, mindless and joyless. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament.
These act much more readily on the vegetating cell than on the more resistant spore. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying
Seeds likewise vegetate more quickly when moistened with this acid, than when they are not. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
Planted in coarse earth, they will not vegetate; planted near the surface in a dry time, they usually perish. Soil Culture
So, too, when they remained at home, some working with their hands and others with their heads,--these doing nothing, those thinking nothing,--their private life was silent, inert, vegetating as before. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories
She was not blessed with one of those consciences which escape suffering by virtue of mere brutishness, or of that dense stupidity in which a woman vegetates, sinning because she knows no better. Germinie Lacerteux
For vegetating forms the thermal death point of most bacteria ranges from 130°-140° F. where the exposure is made for ten minutes which is the standard arbitrarily selected. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying
More charming an old lady could not be, but, in common with all who vegetate in the depths of rural England, she was just a trifle narrow-minded. The Seven Secrets
Farmers say that their corn looks as fair as ever, but does not vegetate well. Soil Culture
It is much more agreeable to me than vegetating in a provincial town, on the look-out for ill-paid lawsuits or some legal appointment. Major Frank
I must enjoy the one half-day, instead of vegetating for years in every-day sameness and weariness, in which I become ill, and at last sink and disappear like the dew on the meadows. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Naturally, even a fatal temperature to bacterial life can be reduced to a point where actual destruction of even vegetating cells does not occur. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying
There are various things—"it never rains but it pours"—but I cannot feel that they are in the least due to my vegetating. The Wooden Horse
From a small eye or a small potato to the largest they will vegetate equally well. Soil Culture
Le Kain, nevertheless, vegetated, for more than sixteen months in the rank of a pensioner. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810
Flattering themselves on their ideals and their high principles, they vegetated in stupid sloth and in a less than animal vacuity. The Hero
By means of these structures which are endowed with greater powers of resistance than the vegetating cell, the organism is able to protect itself from the effect of an unfavorable environment. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying
The progress of events in Lower Egypt during 1881 and 1882 was watched with great care, whether he was vegetating in the Mauritius or absorbed in the anxieties and labours of his South African mission. The Life of Gordon, Volume II
She vegetated, ’tis well known Under the ‘cloche’ of Chaperone. A Humorous History of England
You vegetated for years, until the moment came when you could once more seize fortune in your grasp. The Son of Monte-Cristo
I am really going back to the farm, Giddy," she says the following day, "to vegetate, and grow young again among the primroses and violets. When the Birds Begin to Sing
This result is accomplished by heating the cream to a temperature sufficiently high to destroy the vegetating organisms. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying
Without money or soldiers, royalty vegetated within its diminished patrimony. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
And then in view of the early vegetating habit of these species, there is the possibility that even though you had a hardy tree, immune to insects, you would never get much fruit. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
For the upper south and, in my opinion, for the middle west, late vegetating and blossoming is of prime importance for success with the Persian walnut. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
I like Myers very much, a consistent bearer, has thinnest shell of all, vegetates after frost in spring, has abundant foliage and twigs, holds leaves until late autumn. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946
To find himself in mental contact with a man who had lived and thought through all the years during which he himself had vegetated at the Cross-roads, was a wonderful thing to him. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
Civilization is a dead letter to them, and they still vegetate like their forefathers, with no wish to improve, and with no ambition to attain a more comfortable existence. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
The English walnut usually vegetates too early in the spring to escape some of our late frosts. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
Franquette and Mayette, both highly recommended as being late vegetating and producing excellent nuts, have offered me some difficulties of another order. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
The one dealing with early vegetating and frost damage to Persian walnuts was sent in by the most people. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
I might certainly have obtained the mere necessaries of life at this hotel, where my credit was excellent, and have vegetated for a month or two, as a man must vegetate, without ready money. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
Eastern varieties began to vegetate or burst into growth April 15; Mayette and Franquette, May 1; Parisienne, May 5, and one tree from Grenoble, France, grown from scion sent from Department of Agriculture, May 25. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.
As a safer variety in the Lancaster district Mr. Jones has substituted the Faust from Bamberg, S. C., which vegetates later in spring and thus far has proved less subject to injury. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
Daniel shook his head: “It is said that she is vegetating, a mere shadow of her former self, in some kind of an institution in Erlangen,” he replied. The Goose Man
STOKE: I would say that one good solution is to select late vegetating varieties. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
Then, after this breath of pure air, this glimpse of the heavens above, comforted by a semblance of glory and success, they returned to their squalid apartments, having gained a little strength to vegetate. Jack 1877
Humanity is content to vegetate, much after the fashion of a race of moles. Astronomy for Amateurs
In those glowing climes the Banyan was regarded as the tree of trees, and the mighty centre of vegetating life. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The Lieutenant in charge was the sole person detained as a prisoner-of-war, and he was added to six other British officers who were vegetating under our charge. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
MACDANIELS: The best solution to the frost damage problem is to find trees which vegetate late enough to avoid the spring frosts. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected disposition to give up and wither away. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
I was simply vegetating on, and wouldn't be missed by a single soul if I died. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
The conditions seem almost ideal for any one who does not wish to do anything, and desires simply to vegetate. Spontaneous Activity in Education
Mr. Rush: In connection with Mr. Smith's remarks as to late vegetating varieties, it may be that this feature is not altogether desirable. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913
Now, somewhere in between these extremes, somewhere in the climatic analogue of our region we will find Persian walnuts which will have a delayed vegetating period, and that will be the final answer. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
Observed some days in the moist chamber, they vegetated again, and appeared somewhat larger and more conspicuous than immediately after their excretion. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
The tongue of the idle often setteth a world on fire; for scandal and gossip vegetate to rankness in the garden of sloth. The Young Maiden
Anybody living on this green and vegetating earth to be poisoned by plants in a window! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)
Those which vegetate most luxuriantly there are the fungi, and among them especially the pyrenomycetes, which are frequent in the waters of mines. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
MCKAY: Yes, we find in those seedlings in some cases the tendency to vegetate very early and others very late. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
The same fish are always more lively, powerful, and enduring when they live in swift water, battling with the current, than when they vegetate in the quiet depths of a lake. Days Off And Other Digressions
They desire to free the nations among whom they now vegetate from a presence which is considered disagreeable. Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil
If those cooks of the soul had any skill, if they served their clients with delicate meats, theological essences, gravies of prayer, concentrated sauces of ideas, they would vegetate misunderstood by their flocks. En Route
Maybe he spent his forty-two months of vegetating driving against those blocks until he partially broke them down and could speak. The Short Life
The heat, lasting for several days, reached a high of 80.4 degrees and, as a result, the McKinster tree started vegetating. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
They can no more exist—they may vegetate—but they can no more live without some excitement, than a fish could live on the top of the Alleghany. The Young Man's Guide
To sit still and stay in one place is to vegetate. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
Their successors the Turks may be taken as interpreters of the sentiments of the Byzantine Romans on this subject, who, while vegetating in Stamboul, gravely tell you that Mecca is their country. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
At 45°, the seed would rot in the ground, without vegetating. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
In connection with early vegetating, it may be remarked that Mr. McKinster, several years ago, presented two small grafted trees of his variety to a relative living in eastern Kentucky. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
“I cannot imagine how he can content himself there, after the active life he lived on this side of the water; he will degenerate into an old fogey, vegetating there,” said Harry. Janet's Love and Service
What a miserable being must an old bachelor be!—he vegetates, but he cannot be said to exist—he passes his life in one long career of selfishness, and dies. Olla Podrida
Up to the present time the French Canadians have merely vegetated, but as the country fills up, and they gradually amalgamate with the other settlers, there is no doubt that they will rapidly improve. Diary in America, Series Two
It has been stated, on high authority, that drainage raises the temperature of the soil, often as much as 15° F. Indian corn vegetates at about 55°. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
We should encourage everyone to watch for any late vegetating kinds for trial in the South. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
These warts, although easily removed, have a tendency to recurrence, especially as long as the moist bed that has once grown them there is still vegetating. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
Since the bells rang in my marriage morn, I have dozed away life like a lump of clay, vegetating like a peasant, sleeping like a German boor. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The mass of the people South don't live, sir! they vegetatevegetate and nothing else. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
In the middle of the lawn is one of the greatest natural curiosities in the kingdom: an immense arbutus tree, unfortunately blown down, but yet vegetating A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779
He was not content to vegetate, but longed to escape. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen
The Misses Harper were, like most female branches of "county families," vegetating on their estates from generation to generation in uninterrupted gentility and uniformity. Agatha's Husband A Novel
On entering the hall, I found them as anxious to know where I was destined to vegetate next winter, as they before had been to learn who was going off. Hudson Bay
The seeds seldom vegetate well if sown late in spring, or during warm, dry weather. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
If association and activity are characteristic of normal social life, it is unreasonable to suppose that rural young people will be contented to vegetate. Society Its Origin and Development
The phlegmatic, the dull, and the commonplace vegetate easily through this state of probation. Rattlin the Reefer
Expensive in his habits and ideas, longing for competence, while he vegetated on half-pay, he was now looking out for a matrimonial speculation. The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook
They were devoid of vivid sensations, and vegetated merely. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
Sowing and Cultivation.—In its natural state, the seeds ripen towards autumn, lie dormant in the earth during winter, and vegetate the following spring or summer. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
She could have come to no worse fate than this if I had left her to vegetate in Clearwater.” Sisters Three
I may persuade them to send me abroad for a year or so for languages and music, but even then I should be only twenty, and I can’t settle down to vegetate at twenty. Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story
A French poet aptly describes the centralizing influences of his own capital as regards France, when he tells us that ‘at Paris people live, elsewhere they only vegetate.’ The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4
For the first time I had a motive for exertion; I no longer vegetated; I had a friend, and my real life commenced from that day. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I
They will keep well two years; and if preserved from dampness, and placed in a cool situation, a large percentage will vegetate when three years old. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
Many have been planted, but they merely vegetate, and are wretchedly inferior to the splendid natural trees of Praslin and Curieuse. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852
There are nearly fifteen thousand of our co-religionists in that city; and, while their lot is not an enviable one, it is decidedly better than vegetating in a village. Rabbi and Priest A Story
I was in London during January and February last, but have been vegetating down here ever since.  Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1
"I have vegetated down here until I run a risk of softening of the brain," he said aloud. The Village by the River
The seed vegetates quickly, and the plants grow rapidly. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
The seeds of friendship for the one, and of enmity towards the other belligerent, which the Revolutionary War had plentifully scattered through the whole country, began everywhere to vegetate. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
You are forced to vegetate, rather than live, within the narrow confines of an uninviting and unhealthy quarter. Rabbi and Priest A Story
His son, unhappy as myself, vegetates in the lowest ranks of the army; the daughter, my poor sister, was abandoned, on the evening of our departure, before the house of a neighboring farmer. The Queen's Necklace
It is the lot of military men to vegetate in days of peace. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
When practicable, the seed should be sown in the autumn; as it seldom vegetates well, unless subjected to the action of the winter. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
Prospero must always, in the widest sense, lord it over Caliban, with his diminished understanding and aggravated appetites, who vegetates rather than lives. A Hero and Some Other Folks
In fact, I was vegetating just then, thinking of nothing in particular. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
"I begin to feel," he wrote, "I could be well content to vegetate here for one half of my life, to say nothing of the remainder." James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters
But Foch did not yield to the blandishments of his new home to the extent of vegetating here. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
Though they will sometimes vegetate when kept for a longer period, they are not considered good when more than two years old. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
By this beneficial influence everything is born, grows, and vegetates. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
When desiring a good crop they trod it down with their feet, and prayed the gods it might not vegetate. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Consequently, come and sow those seeds in a pure, sweet and fertile soil, in order that they may vegetate, become fresh and verdant and form into heaps on heaps of harvest.” Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
Drifting helplessly and aimlessly about Europe in search of employment, he had taken root where he came ashore, and vegetated, as floating weeds will do. Sword and Gown A Novel
As these retain their vitality but a single year, and, even when kept through the winter, vegetate slowly, they are frequently sown late in summer, or early in autumn, immediately after ripening. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
It is difficult to get the seeds to vegetate. Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop
It is the great human men, the "men in the natural order," that have made it possible for "the plain, common men," that make up civilization, to live, rather than merely to vegetate. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches
Tyope continued to vegetate, anxiously taking care to give no occasion for recalling his former conduct. The Delight Makers
Did God create man, merely in the end to become dead earth in the midst of healthful vegetating nature? The Last Man
The seeds should be sown in August, or immediately after ripening; as, when sown in spring, they seldom vegetate well. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
I suppose he'll vegetate here till he comes into that money he's waiting for. The Hidden Places
They are always taking them up to see how they are going on, and I like to vegetate in peace.' Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
Our path lay for the first three hours through a richly vegetated country, and the scenery at times was quite English, owing to the amount of oak trees which overhang the path. The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro
Man was compelled to vegetate in his primitive stupidity; he was preserved only by invisible powers, upon whom his fate was supposed to depend. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
Sowing.—As the seed vegetates slowly,—sometimes remaining in the earth four or five weeks before the plants appear,—the sowing should be made as early in spring as the ground is in working condition. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
Roots should be dug in the spring when the sap is rising if you wish to make extract; or they may be gathered in autumn when they have ceased to vegetate. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
I scarcely know a greater injury that can be inflicted than the advice too often given to the first class "to vegetate"—or than the admiration too often bestowed on the latter class for "pluck." Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not
And I am rather ashamed to be vegetating, though I think all must pass through this phase, just removed from the hell of the front. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915
So the workers vegetated throughout a passably comfortable existence, leading a righteous and peaceful life in all piety and probity; and their material position was far better than that of their successors.  The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892
Little will be gained by very early planting; as the seeds are not only liable to decay before vegetating, but the plants suffer greatly from cold, damp weather. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
"I shall be the one who will do the vegetating." A Prince of Sinners
That lift you from the simple state In which you chose to vegetate. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse
We soon anchored opposite the post, and every exertion being made to expedite the departure of the vessel, we were in the course of a few days left to vegetate in quiet. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II.
There had, hitherto, been a vast number of small landowners, yeomen, who had vegetated in the same unthinking quiet as their neighbours, the farming weavers.  The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892
When cultivated, the seeds should be sown soon after ripening, as they vegetate best when exposed to the action of frost during winter. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
Taken as a whole, nobody could at first sight distinguish it in any way from the waving weed among which it vegetates. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
There must have come some sudden crash, or she would hardly have taken her child from an expensive Parisian school to vegetate in such solitude as that she had chosen. An Eye for an Eye
The hardy willow vegetates wherever it can find a particle of soil to take root in; and the plant denominated Labrador tea, flourishes luxuriantly in its native soil. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II.
I have obtained, from different quarters, seeds of the dry rice; but having had time to try them, I find they will not vegetate, having been too long kept. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
They will keep but two years; and, even when newly grown, sometimes remain in the ground four or five weeks before vegetating. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
Mrs. Adams gives me an account of a flower found in Connecticut, which vegetates when suspended in the air. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
Arrived early at Tabe-si-kuddi, a small talang, where the enemy had built three batteries or entrenchments and left behind them a quantity of grain, but vegetating and unfit for use. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
The sun in autumn may be bright and clear, but the seed which has not been sown until then will not vegetate. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
This endeavor towards vegetating, and performing uses thereby, is the outmost derivation from the Divine in created things. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
This beautiful child, so admired at Versailles and at the Tuileries, would not recognise himself, his form is scarcely human—it is something that vegetates—a moving mass of bones and skin. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
Did they know of her banishment? would they laugh at the thought of Queen Hildegardis vegetating for three months at a wretched— "Glenfield!" Queen Hildegarde
He had had a comfortable income, and had he not been Richard Wagner he might have vegetated happily, in the Reissiger way, for life. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
I can't stand this any longer," she said: "I shall turn into an oyster if I vegetate here. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118
Something like this is seen in the vegetable kingdom, in that heat alone does not cause seeds and trees to vegetate, but heat in conjunction with light effects this. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
In this style year after year rolled on, her mother still vegetating. Mary A Fiction
He insists on our having no rule but inclination: do you think we are in any danger of vegetating, my dear Bell? The History of Emily Montague
Before dark we passed through Burdwan, where a few Bengal civilians vegetate on large salaries, to do the work of the rajah, who is still more highly paid not to interfere.  A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
What, therefore, could she do with the dull years in which she might long vegetate through life but to give them in useful service to those who needed help? For Woman's Love
Here the duke vegetated until the meeting of Parliament, when he went up to London to institute proceedings for a divorce. The Lost Lady of Lone
We moved through a low country, densely vegetated, and still abounding in deep sluggish streams, almost unapproachable, on account of a dwarf bamboo and other tropical plants which clothed their margins. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1
The moon was, wid great respect to her character, night-walkin' in the sky; and the stars vegetated in celestial genuflexion around her. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
I look back into the regions of reminiscence, and behold our ancient days, before this earth appeared in its vegetated mortality to my mortal vegetated eyes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
In such a state of things, the principles, now only sown, will shoot out and vegetate in full luxuriance. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)
The father of the day can never fail us, he who makes every thing vegetate, and without whom cold, darkness, and horror, would every where prevail. An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton
In the afternoon, as we were passing through a densely vegetated bottom, we saw a very large iguana run up a tree. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1
She had even gone so far as to encourage her in the belief that she "vegetated," and the word opened up to her a new world. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
Of multitudes of other Moulds, Mosses, and Mushromes, and other vegetating Principles, in Water, Wood, &c. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
The sport was excellent, and, with the amusement the cultivation of my garden afforded me, enabled me to vegetate in great comfort—a comfort I was not destined long to enjoy. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.
Out of 100 nuts, only two-thirds, on an average, will be found to vegetate. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
Snow is said to fall in February, but sparingly—the hills around are bleak, thinly vegetated, except those on the south of the Geerea, which are more wooded.  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Giacomo she despised, on the ground that his occupation was so limited, that it contracted the imagination, and that he did not "live in the metropolis, but vegetated in a country town." Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
"And then, to get any benefit from a monastery, I ought not be in the state of dryness and diffusion in which I find myself vegetating," Durtal went on with difficulty. The Cathedral
Then, too, his mentality was of that amazing fighting quality which stirs youth to go out and seek the world rather than vegetate in the nursery of childhood. The Man in the Twilight
This process is at present unknown, hence all the indigo used there is imported from Europe, although the plant from which it can be made vegetates in every direction. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
The Persian empire rushed through a short career of flame to its tomb; the Chinese empire vegetates, unchanged, through a myriad of years. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology
"I—I guess I don't mind vegetating—a—a little," stammered Ruth, weakly. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund
Most of them simply vegetate; some perform Mass for Sisterhoods, or are convent chaplains, but that brings in very little, two hundred or two hundred and fifty francs perhaps. The Cathedral
Men had long vegetated quietly, without a past in which they could rejoice, without a great future in which they could hope. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
The seeds vegetate in forty days, and are planted out in the second or third month afterwards. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
He vegetated, superfluous and demoded, in a society which insisted that for its amusement the holy place be turned into a concert hall. Là-bas
So that in certain Parts of the Body it only animates and vegetates. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.
And I want each of you, as he leaves college, not to feel, "Now I have had my education, I can afford to vegetate." African and European Addresses
She was the daughter of a Frenchman whom the world had plucked of both money and courage, and he moved to the West Indies to vegetate and brood on the vanity of earthly ambitions. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women
The plants which I imported from the Mauritius some years ago, cost me, on account of many of them not vegetating, at the rate of £30 per acre. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
One family stuffed away in the ostensible security of a coal-hole vegetated there all day. The Siege of Kimberley
Before I vegetated; now all my actions have a motive, an end; they have become important. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
But, being an enthusiast, how can you expect to do anything but vegetate? The Son of Clemenceau
Thus quietly and comfortably did this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty button-wood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace. Tales of a Traveller
I am living here in uncertainty, while my wife is vegetating at her father's and is missing me. The Duel and Other Stories
We had to continue vegetating on Siege rations for two weeks after the arrival of French; but from the first moment of his entry the nightmare of horseflesh troubled us no more. The Siege of Kimberley
I seem to have arrived at the bosom of an after-life, where one's body has ceased to vegetate, and where, in an infinite and eternal world of imagination, one's soul expands with fullest freedom. Across China on Foot
No work, no intellectual or moral interests, nothing but vegetating . . . . disgusting. Love
You ought not to vegetate, my dear; you ought not to live like every one else, but to get the full savour of life, and a slight flavour of depravity is the sauce of life. The Party
In short, we rather vegetated than lived; we withered, and became indifferent to all that animates the soul at other times. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
Matters improved when the excited multitude were at length persuaded that one representative of each family sufficed to conduct negotiations in respect of their right to vegetate. The Siege of Kimberley
The pulse of a free life, where men lived instead of vegetating, was in his veins. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
In this scorching region one can only vegetate. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
Associated word: vituline. veering, n. shift, shifting; vacillation, tergiversation; temporizing, time-serving. vegetable, n. plant, truck. vegetable oyster. salsify. vegetate, v. sprout, grow, germinate, pullulate; rusticate, hibernate. vehemence, n. fervency, impetuosity, intensity, zeal. Putnam's Word Book
These were the men who vegetated in the mud along the shores of Pavonia, being of the race of genuine copper-heads, and were fabled to have sprung from oysters. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
With the banksia and xanthorrhoea always in sight, the idea of hopeless sterility is ever present to the mind, for these productions, in sandy soils at least, grow only where nothing else can vegetate. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1
In the tepid and reddish-brown water of the ponds plants vegetated; some were leathery and gray, and others long, soft, and transparent. Romance of the Rabbit
Near the neat mud cottage in which Simprella vegetated was a dense wood, extending for miles in various directions, according to the point from which it was viewed. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
The tender light pours up streets dank and ill-paved,—into noisome and cavernous dens called houses, where the peasantry of to-day vegetate in contented subservience. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862
He described himself as vegetating, but he was not idle; sustained mental activity was, in fact, a necessity to him whatever were his outward circumstances. Cavour
His gardens promised an ample supply of vegetables; but his seed-wheat, having been heated in the long passage to this country, turned out to be damaged, and did not vegetate. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King.
It is naturally surprising that Prince Bernhardt, as heir to his father's crown, should not take up his residence in the capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, instead of being condemned to vegetate at Breslau. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2)
Upon entering the bay, the eye is attracted by an extensive river, circumscribed by the foregoing outline, and exhibiting upon its banks an assemblage of the productions of nature, vegetating in their native purity. Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa
I look back into the regions of reminiscence, and behold our ancient days before this earth appeared in its vegetated mortality to my mortal vegetated eyes. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
Pride in his son’s exploits was a compensation to the father, who declared them to be better than vegetating over the sheepfolds, like Robert Oakshott, or than idling at Portsmouth, like Sedley Archfield. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago
I scarcely know a greater injury that can be inflicted than the advice too often given to the first class to "vegetate"—or than the admiration too often bestowed on the latter class for "pluck." Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not
It is a region of desert mountains, where frost and snow continually reign, where the sun never shines, no plant vegetates, and no animal lives. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2
The seeds will not vegetate before May, and the crop not in perfection till late September. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II
Will it suit him to vegetate in Surrey? The Morgesons
Idiots have existed in all ages, and have commonly vegetated through life in utter wretchedness and degrading filth, concealed from public view. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858
Birds are very fond of the fruit of the Peepul, and often drop the seeds in the cracks of buildings, where they vegetate, occasioning great damage if not removed in time.--Voight. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden
He is a dear old man; but you know clerics of his date, especially when they have vegetated in the country, never know anything but the Fathers and church architecture. More Bywords
But, such as we are, there is not one amongst us who dreams of the possibility of vegetating as a captain in a reserve regiment, or of dying of old age as a commandant. The Shadow of the Cathedral
When near to him, in the palace of Versailles, men lived, and hoped, and trembled; everywhere else in France, even at Paris, men vegetated. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
Nor was he the type of farmer--of whom we have too many--content to vegetate like a lower organism, making scarcely more mental effort than one of his own potatoes, parsnips or pumpkins. George Washington: Farmer
Happening to be with Lady Suffolk when she received a parcel from Spain, he observed that it was bound with green twigs which looked as if they might vegetate. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden
If it had been in the earth, it would have vegetated, and burst the shell. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island
If she be lost to me, then truly nothing remains but to vegetate, and gloominess unutterable as the foretaste of decay. Without Dogma
"You certainly don't intend to vegetate here always?" Where the Trail Divides
Were he to submit himself humbly to his father, he might probably be allowed to vegetate at the old family home. John Caldigate
Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted, vegetating, deprived of his crown. The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe
That had vegetated on down in the country, and had grown poorer while the others grew richer. Autobiographical Sketches
I think my accounts with Aniela and the world in general may be considered as closed, and henceforth I will quietly vegetate at Rome until my time comes. Without Dogma
The seeds vegetate without any other care, though the more industrious annually remove the weeds and manure the land. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
Time has taught me the way to vegetate; and so I no longer need to live. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
One could be content to vegetate for ever here. This Is the End
To an Englishman, their mode of life would scarcely appear worthy to be called living, but merely vegetating. Travels through the Empire of Morocco
Liberty may yet vegetate and grow even here. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
She returned, as might have been expected, with ideas and desires far beyond the hill-side cottage where she was condemned to vegetate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected disposition to give up, and wither away. A Tale of Two Cities
I don't mind telling you the story, now that he is retired and vegetating in his ancestral pastures. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Another king, like James I, might make them vegetate again; and, more mischievous still, another pope, like Innocent VIII, might raise the decaying roots to strength and verdure. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
The shape of every branch and twig is expressed in a deep red glow, and as the light wind stirs and ruffles it, they seem to vegetate in fire. American Notes
In those countries which are but little developed, industrially and commercially, these two classes still vegetate side by side with the rising bourgeoisie. The Communist Manifesto
"Besides, I'm tired of vegetating, and having only one name," he continued. Baron Trigault's Vengeance
Many people merely exist, are kept alive by others, or continue to vegetate because the persistent action of normal functions will allow of their doing no less. The Shuttle
At this, Isenbiehl, declaring that he had written it in the hope of doing a service to the Church, recanted, and vegetated in obscurity until his death in 1818. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
From the outset he shone in the first rank, while his future rival, Robespierre, was vegetating almost in the lowest. The Psychology of Revolution
How should I dare to propose to my family to leave one of the great centres of the country to go and vegetate in a little provincial city like Washington?  Worldly Ways and Byways
"And you found him vegetating in a little village and took him by the hand and set him on his feet in Rome?" Roderick Hudson
This industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw material, which reacted on the manufacture. Les Misérables
The slaves of the mountainous north, who live in the deepest poverty, and the Roumanians of Transylvania, who vegetate in a like miserable condition, are all very prolific. Freeland A Social Anticipation
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