After this we retired, and conversing again on this subject, I said, "Those differences originate solely in this circumstance of your existence in the spiritual world, that you are in substantials and not in materials: and substantials are the beginning of materials.

The most apparently substantial of these was the unprecedented character of the measure.

But the most gorgeous effects are, as is usual with air-castles, created out of nothing,that is, nothing more substantial than air, mist, and sun- or moon- or star-beams.

When they got out into the world of action, when they began to ask for something more substantial than bonbons, the club women found that the American man was not so very generous after all.

She couldn't expose her father to a stranger; yet if her apprehensions were grounded on anything more substantial than fear, strangers must in time know all.

No doubt they thought quickly of something or they would have chosen something more substantial than leaves.

It was so generally felt in Congress that the resolutions were founded on nothing more substantial than spite that Giles could not hold his forces together, and as the debate proceeded the number of his adherents dwindled.

It did not take me many minutes to discover that these men needed something more substantial than tea.

Nevertheless, the amorous Marquis, who might have relied upon the solemn promise of his mistress, had it not been for the intense fears which were ever present in his mind, and becoming more violent as the hour for his departure drew nearer, required something more substantial than words.