There were fine reception-rooms and a pretty garden, but the living-rooms were small, not numerous, and decidedly gloomy.

On they rushed through every gulch and hollow, leaping, gliding, working with a will, and rejoicing like living creatures.

He laughed at the flash of cannon, but he trembled at the flash of a new living thought.

Hence, if the period represented by the rocks is greater than, or co-extensive with, that during which life has existed, we ought, somewhere among the ancient formations, to arrive at the point to which all these series converge, or from which, in other words, they have divergedthe primitive undifferentiated protoplasmic living things, whence the two great series of plants and animals have taken their departure.

In 1844 Mulder endeavoured to demonstrate that a peculiar substance, which he called "protein," was essentially characteristic of living matter.

Ouzels seem so completely part and parcel of the streams they inhabit, they scarce suggest any other origin than the streams themselves; and one might almost be pardoned in fancying they come direct from the living waters, like flowers from the ground.

join every living soul, Beneath the spacious temple of the sky, In adoration join; and ardent raise One general song!

(The Social living series) © 3May38; A116623.

Those who cannot do that are paid their actual living expenses if they are single; and if they have families, are allowed approximately the pay of a second lieutenant.

I especially enjoy what you [Mr. Spalding] have written, because you stand as the highest living authority on the game.

No man or woman has a living-wage, who has no money to give away.

(In The Living age, Sept. 1939)

Third, that the women laborers must, in groups, have comfortable living conditions without being a burden on the farmer's wife, must have adequate pay, and must have regulated hours of work.

The book of living reptiles.

This dead wood of the desk instead of your living trees!

Indeed, I had idealized it roughly in my pocket-book, intending to transfer the sketches, for elaboration on canvas, to Tankerville, the regimental Landseer, whose menagerie of living models, consisting of two bears, one calf-moose, one loup-cervier, three bloated raccoons, and a bald eagle, formed at once the terror and delight of the rising generation of the barracks.

When religion, education, art, and brotherly affection have joined hands in a charmed circle, we shall have new ideas of working-places, as well as of praying-places, and of living-places!

As Evangelicals their first step was to translate the Bible into all the living languages and current scripts of the Nearer East.

Herein, as usual, he treads in the steps of Professor Huxley, "the greatest living master of English prose" (though why his mastery of prose should add to his weight as a philosopher, we fail to see).

The book of living verse, limited to the chief poets.

"Poor Philip Vantine's nearest living relative, sir," he added.

O earth, the mother of each living wight, Open thy womb, devour this wither'd corpse.

And Ernest, on the other hand, was moved and agitated by the living images which the poet flung out of his mind, and which peopled all the air about the cottage-door with shapes of beauty, both gay and pensive.

My brother-men, will you take that living stream as a type of your life in the world?

The river, tinged by the long rays of the late afternoon sun, gleamed like a river of living gold, blinding her eyes and setting her to dreaming of magic seas and far countries.