These examples shew clearly, that both Christians and pagans were so far agreed as to treat the greater number of oracles as purely human impostures.

This proclivity on the part of the little girls of our Nation is not distinctively American, nor especially childish, nor particularly girl-like; it is merely human.

No intelligible account could be got from them; they had seen things that shatter the nerves and brain of the weak and old; they were scarcely human in their extremity of fear.

Something intensely human, narrow, and definite pierces to the seat of our sensibilities more readily than huge occurrences and catastrophes.

Besides these the child has the essentially human need for social intercourse, for speech, for games, for songs and stories, for pictures and poetry.

It is, therefore, appropriate to emphasize the strictly human value of the work for which I am seeking provision.

To kill another for revenge was pitifully human and weak: "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," saith the Lord.

* There are, it is said, certain savagesjust barely human beingscalled Dyaks.

Yet, after all that can be said against its dramatic fitness, the statue remains an impressive and majestic yet strangely human thing.

and yet there was with me, all the way, and all the time, one who can talk, reason, philosophise, understand things as well as you or I; and one, to all appearance, as much and distinctly human as you or I." "Impossible!"

I imagine Homer would have been considerably surprised, if anyone had told him that the vast train of tragic events caused by the gross and insupportable insult put by Agamemnon, the mean mind in authority, on Achilles, the typical herothat this noble and profoundly human theme was a second-rate subject.

Poor Winthrop, marching with the city élégants, seems almost to have been astonished to find how wonderfully human were the hard-handed men of the Eighth Massachusetts.

It had a grotesquely human mouth and jaw; but with no chin of which to speak.

But, also, there was something more in itsomething gong-like and metallic, yet at the same time oddly and suspiciously human.

The characters of Shakespeare are not more exclusively human, not more perfectly men and women as they live and move, than those of this mysterious author.

so pitiably human, that you can only punish her by laughing at her, which she does not at all like.

in the course of his surprisingly human repartee under difficulties.

As we stood around our campfire to-night, our ears were saluted with a shriek so terribly human, that for a moment we believed it to be a call from Mr. Everts, and we hallooed in response, and several of our party started in the direction whence the sounds came, and would have instituted a search for our comrade but for an admonitory growl of a mountain lion.

And this oneHermia Challoner, an enthusiast without a missiona feminine abnormity, half child, half oracle, wholly irresponsible and yet, by the same token, wholly and delightfully human!

Observed from across the room of the Methodist Sunday-school, she was undoubtedly human like them; but always so befurbished with rare and shining garments, with glistening silks and costly velvets and laces, with bonnets of pink rosebuds and gloves of kid, that the thought of any secular relationship had been preposterous.

Briefly, an excellently human and stimulating novel, whose only drawback is that recent events have caused the suffrage atmosphere in which it is sat to taste somewhat stale.

A few pleasures bear discussion for their own sake, but only those which are most social or most radically human; and even these can only be discussed among their devotees.

"How human, how lusciously human!"

And this man whom we realise does not impress us unfavourably; if he is without charm, he is surely immensely interesting and attractive; he is so strong in his intellectual convictions, he is so free from intellectual affectations, he is such an ingenuous egotist, so naïvely human; he is so mercilessly honest and independent, and, at times (one may be permitted to think), so mistaken.

He's just awfulhardly human.