Do we say animate or adamant

animate 375 occurrences

no mantling life-blood flows; But, animate with deity alone, In deathless glory lives the breathing stone.

They were observed with great pomp and splendor in the open air in front of temples, in sacred groves, wherever the people could conveniently assemble to join in jocund dances, in athletic sports, and whatever could animate the soul with festivity and joy.

One thing was probable, whether a supernatural wisdom and power were given her or not,she yet might animate the courage of others, she might stimulate them to heroic action, and revive their hopes; for if God was with them, who could be against them?

It was one thing to animate starving troops to a desperate effort for their deliverance; it was another to assault fortified cities held by the powerful forces which had nearly completed the conquest of France.

It directed all the energies of human nature to the pampering and decorating of this mortal body, not believing that the mind and soul which animate it, and which are the sources of all its glory, would ever live beyond the grave.

A wholly new spirit was introduced to animate the conversation with which those royal entertainments were enlivened.

Thy daring art shall animate the dead, And draw the thunder on thy guilty head: Then shalt thou die; but from the dark abode Rise up victorious, and be twice a god.

But when Colbert died, in 1685, another spirit seemed to animate the councils of the King, and great mistakes were made,which is the more noteworthy, since the moral character of the King seemed to improve.

When he was four years old the family moved to Herne Hill, a suburb south of London, where his intense love of nature developed as he looked over open fields, "animate with cow and buttercup," "over softly wreathing distances of domestic wood," to the distant hills.

Of the author's home-life we get many delightful reminiscences in "Praeterita," with entertaining talks of his childhood days, his youthful companions, his toys and animate pets, his early playful adventures in authorship, and other garrulities with which, late in life when the work, as it remains, was incompletely put together, he beguiled the weariness and feebleness of old age.

The first of these is, the introduction of the American method of observing transits, by completing a galvanic circuit by means of a touch of the finger at the instant of appulse of the transiting body to the wire of the instrument, which circuit will then animate a magnet that will make an impression upon a moving paper.

They would have murdered any white men they might meet for their arms alone, without considering the spirit of wantonness or revenge that might animate them.

As I stood there a last moment, pressing down the final seal, I had no doubt but that I had come across one of those rare and horrible cases of the Inanimate reproducing the functions of the Animate, I made a grab for my lamp, and went quickly to the door, looking over my shoulder, and listening for the thing that I expected.

Then I gave him a little lecture on the False Re-Materialization of the Animate-Force through the Inanimate-Inert.

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.

I remember now, that the idea of that insensate thing becoming animate, and attacking me, did not occur to me with any sense of possibility or reality.

Some authorities say Giuliano lent a not unwilling ear to those overtures, but a saner view is that expressed by Agnolo Poliziano in an epigram: "LorenzoGiulianoone spirit, love, and aim Animate you boththis, truly, I, your friend, proclaim.

The feelings of conscious patriotism and worth will animate such men under every change of fortune and pursuit, but their country performs a duty to itself when it bestows those testimonials of approbation and applause which are at once the reward and the incentive to great actions.

These contemplations, sweetening the remnant of my days, will animate my prayers for the happiness of my beloved country, and a perpetuity of the institutions under which it is enjoyed.

All this has been accomplished; and if I have not wandered so far, nor enriched myself with such varied knowledge of the relics of ancient history, as I might have purposed or wished, I have at least learned to know the Turk and the Arab, been soothed by the patience inspired by their fatalism, and warmed by the gorgeous gleams of fancy that animate their poetry and religion.

But in what manner that divine operation, which is the Lord's divine providence, is received by animate subjects, will be shewn in what follows.

jimmy and skeleton-key, character of; canary birds: query, would not their admission into every cell animate in the human prisoners a similar buoyancy?

He was attracted by the marvellous mechanism of the human frameits goodliness regarded as the most highly organised of animate existences.

All things animate suddenly awoke and field and road were alive with people.

A short satire on the Dutch, written to animate the people of England against them, appeared in 1662.

adamant 155 occurrences

High winds and fog hampered the operations to a considerable extent, but the purpose of the Allies under Vice-Admiral Carden was adamant and would not be denied.

At one end was a chimney made of slabs of wood, with the chinks filled in with mud that, in the process of time, aided by the heat of the fire, had become as hard as cement or adamant; and from this there curled wreaths of lazily ascending blue smoke, the source of that delightful odor that had drifted to Bandy-legs's nostrils.

She has no heresies, she can prove every assertion from the Bible, her principles are as firm as adamant and her heart as tender as a mother's.

In this she was adamant.

" At last, however, when the magistrates, the clergy and many of the principal citizens entreated him, the proud old governor, who had "a heart as big as an ox, and a head that would have set adamant to scorn," consented to capitulate.

In this tossing sea of delusion, we feel with our feet the adamant; in this dominion of chance, we find a principle of permanence.

In this expedition the Mongals are said to have penetrated to the Caspian mountains, which being of adamant, attracted their arrows and other weapons of iron.

Ne do I wish (for wishing were but vaine) To be acquit fro my continual smart, But ioy her thrall for ever to remayne, And yield for pledge my poor and captyved hart, The which, that it from her may never start, Let her, yf please her, bynd with adamant chayne,

Of course they started to make objections, and the air was filled with various excited exclamations; but Frank proved as firm as adamant, and showed the automatic revolver sticking from his pocket all the while, a fact that kept the two men from venturing to do more than shout.

Only Lou's violent temper and intense hatred of her enemies kept the woman from being adamant in matters moral or spiritual.

" They vowed that they would be adamant.

The great difficulty with which the release of these free men was procured, notwithstanding the personal efforts of Mr. Jacob Barker, who is a gentleman of influence, and has, we believe, been an alderman of New Orleans, reveals a 'public opinion,' insensible as adamant to the liberty of colored men.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear; yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone."

.....I saw the living pile ascend, The mausoleum of its architects, Still dying upwards as their labors closed; Slime the material, but the slime was turned To adamant by their petrific touch: Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable.

Of most perfect metal it was made, Tempered with adamant ...

Abad made no reply, but, raising the enchanted hammer against the ponderous bulwark with his whole strength (and he felt as though gifted with more than mortal strength), he, at one tremendous blow, dislodged the stone which had stood at the entrance of the cave, amidst the shock of tempests and the convulsions of nature, from the creation of the worldas hard as adamant, heavy as gold, and as round as the balls on the cupolas of Bagdad.

"A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire.

'Tis more than life, to watch him hold His hand forth, tremulous yet bold, Over his second's, and to clasp His rival's in a quiet grasp; To watch the noble attitude He takes,the crowd in breathless mood, And then to see, with adamant start, The muscles set,and the great heart Hurl a courageous, splendid light Into the eye,and thenthe FIGHT.

The Parliament opens; everybody is bribed; and the new establishment is perceived to be composed of adamant.

Sir Julian was as adamant when Constance proposed a trip to London, and would under no circumstances allow her to leave the inn.

Cedric had raised her from the floor and half-supported her as she poured out her grief in words of pleading and entreaty; but Cedric was as adamant, he would not bend to offer any hope.

There was no rest for me away from that abode, whose gates of adamant, with all their bars and fastenings, one magic word had openedwhose sentinels were withdrawnwhose terrors had departed.

This is the first good voyage the Oswego ever made me; if another ship, the Adamant, will come full while oil is high, I shall arrange matters with my creditors before the three years are up.

No; this prodigy has its place on the prophetic page; and the path which has thus far led us to the conclusion that the two-horned beast is the prophetic symbol of the United States, is hedged in on either side by walls of adamant that reach to heaven.

But he wuz as firm as adamant in his idee.

Do we say   animate   or  adamant