单词 | animate thing |
例句 | Fire destroys not alone the valuable ingredient it consumes to make itself, but burns up the earth's vital moisture—the life-giving oxygen we breathe, without which no animate thing could survive. The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z The mules began to quiver in an eerie way, and the trembling of them subtly communicated itself to the cart which also began to quiver and creak like an animate thing. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Our eyes pained with the intense fixity of gazing, yet no animate thing appeared. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z He could not have said how he knew that, for it stood motionless in its empty clearing, not a branch trembling, yet in its immobility more awfully vital than any animate thing. The Tree of Life Now, the spirits which, in the period of animism, are believed to animate things, are not, it is true, concerned with morality; but then, neither are they gods. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion Neither within the building nor without was there any person or animate thing in sight, except some small birds fluttering and quarreling along the telegraph wires. The Vagrant Duke The metal foil sagged under him and slanted downward, trying like some animate thing to rid itself of the unwonted burden. The Great Dome on Mercury The wind and the rain still raged without, drowning and merging any sounds there might be in the road, though truly few animate things were abroad at that hour in that weather. Say and Seal, Volume II He seemed to throw out a strange devitalizing force that acted as well upon inanimate as upon animate things. Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life The storm seemed an animate thing, seemed to come upon the peacefulness of the lake like an evil genius, hurling its fury upon nature and her creatures. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old The difficulty of the task had suddenly become increased, for the pad seemed to become an animate thing. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands In the presence of plants and animals and all animate things we are also vaguely conscious of a strange psychological melancholy. The Complex Vision He thought of the arrow as an animate thing having a cutting or piercing quality. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Aristotle seems not to have believed in any transformation of species, but he saw that Nature passes gradually from inanimate to animate things without a clear dividing line. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Hence, of animate things some are inferior by reason of the meanness of the organ in which they operate; others are superior through the richness of the same. The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem Then the picture faded once more and he railed at the ensuing blackness as though it had been a wilful, animate thing. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands He directed these epithets never at animate things, never at anything he could by mental or physical contest overcome. Parrot & Co. Alone of animate things, Captain Vyell's coach-and-six crept forth and along the beach, as though tempted by the promise of a wintry gleam to landward. Lady Good-for-Nothing A window is such a gay, animate thing. The House in Good Taste A most incomprehensible bombardment was subsequently opened on an isolated place, called "the Brickfields," where no animate thing above the bite of a mosquito lived, moved, or had its being. The Siege of Kimberley This deep love of inanimate and animate things becomes individualized in those poems in which every tree, every spring, every bird is described with its own special features. The Glories of Ireland If intellectual processes were responsible for life, the world no doubt would soon be bare of animate things. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment It seemed to me that every animate thing was made to be happy. Small Means and Great Ends The winter rolled by, and the station Was green with the garland of spring A spirit of glad exultation Awoke in each animate thing. The Man from Snowy River Some other animate thing was within her hearing. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense Then they waved, and the maroon and white flag stood out tense and defiant like some animate thing. The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island As one reads on, however, one becomes aware of an intimacy and fellowship with animate things that go deeper. Vergil A Biography As we look at a snake, or a spider, we know that evil is shaped like that; and not only animate things but inanimate. The Worshipper of the Image Mile after mile of the charming woodland country they scoured, their hearts beating at the appearance of any animate thing that for a brief, intoxicating moment they could conjure into a rebel advance post. The Iron Game A Tale of the War Pity is the invisible embrace which enfolds all animate things. Man on the Box |
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