Do we say inveterate or invertebrate

inveterate 414 occurrences

I can palliate her detestable bigotry only on the ground that she was the slave of an order of men who have ever proved themselves to be the inveterate foes of human freedom, and who marked their footsteps, wherever they went, by a trail of blood.

The long digression on the Jews is not artistic; and the subject itself is uninteresting, especially to the English, who have inveterate prejudices against the chosen people.

Even this basis of power was daily weakened by their intestine jealousies and animosities; their ancient and inveterate quarrels broke out when they came to share the spoils of the crown; and the rivalship between the Earls of Leicester and Gloucester, the chief leaders among them, began to disjoint the whole confederacy.

A mighty athlete, an inveterate wanderer, a philological enthusiast, and a man of large-hearted simplicity mingled with violent prejudices, he was one of the most original and engaging personalities of nineteenth century English literature.

She was Mrs. Herne, "the hairy one," who had conceived inveterate spite against me at the time when Petulengro had proposed that I should marry his wife's sister.

THE BLACKBIRD [Bowing with every sign of admiration.] Allow me to CHANTECLER That inveterate mocker!

Tending to evil, as Leanness, dryness, hollow-eyed, &c. Inveterate melancholy is incurable.

Even as one distillation, not yet grown to custom, makes a cough; but continual and inveterate causeth a consumption of the lungs;" so do these our melancholy provocations: and according as the humour itself is intended, or remitted in men, as their temperature of body, or rational soul is better able to make resistance; so are they more or less affected.

If inveterate, or a habit, yet they have lucida intervalla, sometimes well, and sometimes ill; or if more continuate, as the [4071]Vejentes were to the Romans, 'tis hostis magis assiduus quam gravis, a more durable enemy than dangerous: and amongst many inconveniences, some comforts are annexed to it.

If it be inveterate, they are insensati, most part doting, or quite mad, insensible of any wrongs, ridiculous to others, but most happy and secure to themselves.

that will see all his soldiers go before him and come post principia, like the bragging soldier, last himself; when other helps fail in inveterate melancholy, in a desperate case, this vomit is to be taken.

If it be violent, or his disease inveterate, as I have determined in the precedent partitions, both imagination and reason are misaffected, first one, then the other.

Silence again, long, inveterate, dangerous.

One or two small incidents have in the meantime shown us that there is a little rift in the idyllic happiness of Inga and Gar, arising from her inveterate habit of telling trifling fibs to avoid facing the petty annoyances of life.

Another theme which ought to be relegated to the theatrical lumber-room is that of patient, inveterate revenge.

Flaccus declared, that "he had individually no quarrel with the Campanians, but that he did entertain an enmity towards them on public grounds and because they were foes, and should continue to do so as long as he felt assured that they had the same feelings towards the Roman people; for that there was no nation or people on earth more inveterate against the Roman name.

And is not an inveterate evil very difficult to cure?

She finds in every man a natural and inveterate enemy.

It was not a market-day, but Stephen Whitelaw had announced at dinner-time that he had an appointment at Malsham, and had set out immediately after dinner in the chaise-cart, much to the wonderment of Mrs. Tadman, who was an inveterate gossip, and never easy until she arrived at the bottom of any small household mystery.

Inveterate feuds and narrow-minded local jealousies, arising out of an isolated position or differences of language and institutions, had created endless divisions between man and man.

I'll sleep among my most inveterate Foes

The Superior of a modern Convent is but the antitype of Kanwa; and what is Romanism but humanity developing itself in some of its most inveterate propensities? 14.

Marna turned adoring eyes upon her; Mrs. Barsaloux, that inveterate encourager of genius, grieved that the girl had no specialty for her to foster; the foreigners paid her frank tribute, and there was no question but that the appraisement upon her that night was high.

The spiritual power of a scientific, right thought, without a direct effort, an audible or even a mental argument, has oftentimes healed inveterate diseases.

Such an inveterate stupidity, such a scorn for literature and art, such a hatred for all the ideas he worshipped, were implanted and anchored in these merchant minds, exclusively preoccupied with the business of swindling and money-making, and accessible only to ideas of politicsthat base distraction of mediocritiesthat he returned enraged to his home and locked himself in with his books.

invertebrate 54 occurrences

Wagner was greatly over-estimated, in her opinion; she asked for invertebrate music, the free harmony of the passing wind.

Somehow we felt that the daughter of the New England parson was speaking, not the child of the invertebrate Southerner.

She has no vital parts, such as France has in Paris or Germany has in Silesia or Westphalia, upon which the life of the whole State organism depends; she is like some vast multi-cellular invertebrate animal which it is possible to wound but not to destroy.

It is only your invertebrate husband whose wife drifts into the divorce court.

A king who would permit such cruel cuttings-up as these wicked animals were guilty of on the fair face of old England, should live in history only as an invertebrate, a royal failure, a decayed mollusk, and the dropsical head of a tottering dynasty.

There it dangles, limp, invertebrate, yet how eloquent!

But this tradition has failed to produce the beginnings or promise of any new phase of civilised organisation, the growths have remained largely invertebrate and chaotic, and, concurrently with its gift of splendid and monstrous growth, it has also developed portentous political and economic evils.

A considerable proportion of people, men no less than women, are born invertebrate, and they must got on as they best can.

R113096, 8Jun53, Haldeman-Julius Co. (PWH) The intelligence of invertebrate animals.

HEGNER, JANE Z. Invertebrate zoology.

SEE Hegner, Robert W. HEGNER, ROBERT W. Invertebrate zoology.

A manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects.

PRATT, HENRY SHERRING, ESTATE OF Manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects SEE PRATT, HENRY SHERRING.

Progress of invertebrate life.

The intelligence of invertebrate animals.

The lower invertebrate animals.

Invertebrate Spain.

Comparison of fossil and modern invertebrate animals.

Progress of invertebrate life.

Selected invertebrate types.

In all communities where the men are invertebrate the women become the real heads of the family, doing not only most of the actual work, but also taking the dominant position in affairs generally.

Indeed, in reading even great poetry, is one not sometimes sadly aware, as in the case of Shelley or Swinburne, that the logical sequence of thought is loose and indeterminate, and that this is concealed from one by the reverberating beat of metre, which gives a false sense of structure to a mood that is really invertebrate?

This puerile dogma was asserted ostensibly in the interest of Slavery, in order to get rid of the power of Congress over that subject; but the real source of it was the cowardice of those invertebrate and timorous politicians who desired to evade the responsibility of expressing opinions concerning this power.

CHITIN, a white horny substance found in the exoskeleton of several invertebrate animals.

CREATIN, a substance found in the muscles of vertebrate animals, but never in invertebrate.

Do we say   inveterate   or  invertebrate