A thousand animate creatures had lived their long life of an hour, when the judge was wakened by the whistle of a bird, which sounded strange to him.

I went at all hours of the night, and often the whistling, inside, would seem to change to a brutally malignant note, as though the half-animate monster saw me plainly through the shut door.

None of the creations of this period, moreover, are devoid of intense animating emotions and ideas.

She adds that she often kept herself awake in order to listen to their animating remarks, feeling inexpressibly happy in their happiness,an indication of that devoted and unselfish affection which afterwards consecrated her whole life.

This certainly tended very much to strengthen that firm faith in God, and reverent animating sense of his presence, for which he was so eminently remarkable, and which carried him through the trials and services of life with such steadiness and with such activity; for he indeed endured and acted as always seeing Him who is invisible.

" With every animating syllable, the affrighted blood returned again, and I gained confidence.

The carcase indeed is presented to the English reader, but the animating vigour is no more.