4281 examples of substance in sentences

Upon the banks Of Tweed, slow winding through the vale, the seat Of war and rapine once, ere Britons knew The sweets of peace, or Anna's dread commands To lasting leagues the haughty rivals awed, There dwelt a pilfering race; well-trained and skilled In all the mysteries of theft, the spoil Their only substance, feuds and war their sport: Not more expert in every fraudful art 300

The Vicar of Harrow in 1820 very fairly sums up the substance of innumerable German speeches, pamphlets, and election addresses in 1912 on the subject of the Social Democrats.

provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property &c 780; command of money.

pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes^. rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob [Slang], Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens^; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae.

And all this, barely stated, is a very different matter from what it is when it is poetically symbolized in the vast and shapely substance of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

And so it is atmosphere, in Tasso and Camoens, that counts much more than substance; both poets seem perpetually thrilled by something they cannot expressthe non so che of Tasso.

It is the difference between an accidental device and essential substance.

We have to consider the flame, the charred substance, and the ash.

This receptacle is found constantly filled with a soft, unctuous, brownish substance, of the most powerful and penetrating scent, and which is the perfume in its natural state.

In proof of this, and in order that what has been said may not be deemed an exaggeration, it will suffice to quote the substance of two regulations, remarkable for their obvious tendency to weaken the influence and credit of the spiritual administrators.

That it consists of five ethers, corresponding to our five senses, as the ancient Hindus assertwho can say? "I mention this subject of the differentiation of the ether merely that you may not suppose that the ether is a simple substance.

For the present we will treat it as a simple substance, but next year we will take it up as a compound one.

"In 1882, Professor Lodge, in a lecture before the Royal Institution on 'The Luminiferous Ether' defined it as: "'One continuous substance, filling all space, which can vibrate as light, which can be sheared into positive and negative electricity, which in whirls constitutes matter, and which transmits by continuity and not impact every action and reaction of which matter is capable.'

All the solids and liquids of this earth of ours gather at the centre, in a core, each of the elements (or their combinations) in this core vibrating in their three lower notes, producing the attraction, which is "in proportion to the mass" and which decreases from the surface of the core "as the square of the substance.

The Angel man had but one body, of manasa, in which the spirit dwelt; but that body was identical in substance with the body that made the mind of the animal man.

A fiction it might be termed, but it was a fiction admirably calculated to preserve the constitution, and, by adopting its forms, to preserve its substance.

confundir, to confuse, confound, mingle, unite; refl., to lose form (or substance); to blend, be confused (confounded or mingled); to mingle, intermingle, vanish, be lost, be lost to sight (en, in).

The much elaborated chronicle of the Moors was made to eke out substance for "The Arragonian Queen" (1724), a story of "Europe in the Eighth Century," while "Cleomelia: or, the Generous Mistress" was advertised as the "Secret History of a Lady Lately Arriv'd from Bengall."

But how long before they will be so,when they shall have become the mere creatures of the State, and, under the plea of no sectarianism, mere naturalism shall be the substance of all the religious, and the basis of all the secular teaching which they shall give?

Mr. Sim also stated that, in his will, he should divide his substance equally between the brothers; and he did so.

Is quackery a thing, i.e. a substance?

The poet's cemetery is the human mind, in which he sows the seeds of never ending thoughthis monument is to be found in his works: "Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memory, But the eternal substance of his greatness.

You, gentlemen, take the liberty to depart from our standard English translation of the Bible, and to substitute "slaveholder" for "master""slave" for "servant"and, in substance, "emperor" for "ruler"and "subject of an imperial government" for "subject of civil government generally."

And Abraham took Sarah his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their SUBSTANCE that they had gathered; and the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan."Gen.

Many will have it, that these souls were a part of Abraham's substance (notwithstanding the pains here taken to separate them from it)that they were slaves taken with him in his migration as a part of his family effects.

4281 examples of  substance  in sentences