Those of us who were his friends and neighbors, by whose firesides he sat familiarly, and of whose life upon the pleasant Staten Island, where he lived, he was so important a part, were so impressed by his intense vitality, that his death strikes us with peculiar strangeness, like sudden winter-silence falling upon these humming fields of June.

This is a great truth which in all ages has been set forth under a variety of symbolic statements; often misunderstood, and still continuing to be so, though owing to the inherent vitality of the idea itself even a partial apprehension of it produces a corresponding measure of good results.

But the exertion sapped his little remaining vitality, and he could scarcely reach Ayesha's room again.

In itself, though it be written all over with words of truth and freedomthough its provisions be as impartial and just as words can express, or the imagination paintthough it be as pure as the gospel, and breathe only the spirit of Heavenit is powerless; it has no executive vitality; it is a lifeless corpse, even though beautiful in death.

When not immediately in my presence or Eveena's, their keen enjoyment of a life so new, the sudden development of the brighter side of their nature under circumstances that gave play to the vigorous vitality of youth, gave as much pleasure to me as to themselves.

A tremendous vitality thrilled in them from nose to paw tips.

He once said in forcible Saxon: "The Rehearsal! has not wit enough to keep it sweet," but a moment later he translated this into: "It has not sufficient vitality to preserve it from putrefaction."

It can rightly distribute the spiritual vitality of the world.

A great invalid from girlhood, owing to an unfortunate accident, Mrs. Browning's life was a prolonged combat with disease thereby engendered; and had not God given her extraordinary vitality of spirit, the frail body could never have borne up against the suffering to which it was doomed.

Death has bestowed upon him a vitality superior to that of mundane life.

To attract our service, there must be in the Church an inner vitality, a moving and spiritual fire.

What then is to be said of the prodigies of spontaneous vitality?

If the black race possess a more exuberant vitality than some other race, then the black would not be forced to practise so severe a vital economy as some less virile folk.

Enva, moreover, with the vigorous youthful vitality-so often found on Earth in women of her light Northern complexion, seemed less likely to suffer from the severity of the weather or the fatigue of a land journey than most of her companions.

The Greco-Roman Paganism was, at this time, far more powerful than Druidism in Gaul, and yet more lukewarm and destitute of all religious vitality.

It is to throw fresh vigor and intellectual vitality into the services of the Church.

Even overwork could not deaden his enormous vitality; but I hope that his immediate successor does not lecture so often.

Less expert swimmers would have sunk, but their muscles were hardened by years of forest lifeall Robert's strength had come back to himand an immense vitality made the love of life overwhelming in them.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Feeling this all through his cases, at the same time that he was moulding them and giving them dramatic vitality, they took their true position from natural reaction and rebound, with all the more sharpness of contrast, when he came out of them.

Thus Russia is powerful by an army held ready as a rearguard to support needy despots with; powerful by its ascendancy over the European continent; powerful by having pushed other despots into extremities where they have lost all independent vitality, and cannot escape throwing themselves into the iron grasp of the Czar; but above all, Russia is powerful by its secret diplomacy.

But Dorn penetrated all this, and established the relation between it and the nameless and dreadful significance of their weapons and medals and uniforms and stripes, and the magnificent vitality that was now all but spent.

And what a marvellous vitality it seems to have!

it killed him at last, twenty years before his time, sapping his splendid vitality, undermining his iron constitution.

Not only, as she says, does it "constitute the essential and main vitality of our nature," but when it is stored up in the human organism and inherited, it becomes the vital source out of which all moral and religious truth is built up.