Do we say vittle or vital
"How on arth be yew goin' ter vittle him?
Friday told me such a boat would do very well, and would carry "much enough vittle, drink, bread;" that was his way of talking.
My man told me, that such a boat would do very well for the purpose, sufficient to carry enough vittle, drink, bread, for that was his manner of talking.
Those of the latter kind have been applied with a view to resist or check many operations of nature, which insensibly consume the vital heat, and other powers of life, such as respiration, muscular irritation, etc.
And the vital importance of the long struggle on the Somme was becoming every day more evident.
" Cadorna had inspected our Batteries soon after their arrival in Italy, and we had been visited and officially welcomed on behalf of the Italian Government by the Minister Bissolati, perhaps the most vivid and vital personality in Italian politics, and a wise counsellor, whose advice has more than once been disastrously ignored.
It would be so to ourselves, were we not so used to the fact, had it not so grown into our essence and ingrained itself with our nature as to seem a vital organism of our being.
What statesman has she reared, since Jefferson died and Madison ceased to write, save those intrepid discoverers who have taught that Slavery is the corner-stone of republican institutions, and the vital element of Freedom herself?
I think it is R.H. Hutton who remarks that it is not "easy to give us a firm grasp of any great class of truths without loosening our grasp on some other class of truths perhaps nobler and more vital;" and undoubtedly Patmore and his school in emphasizing the fallacies of neo-platonic asceticism are in danger of precipitating us into fallacies every whit as uncatholic.
Struck dead with a rifle ball through the heart or some other instantly vital spot.
No administrative reforms are at all practicable; their moral maladies have attacked the vital element; the sole cure is conquest, and the substitution of Christian Governments in Northern Africa, and Turkey in Europe and Asia.
The soulless, practised, and specious reasoning of the state, had long since deadened all feeling in the senator on any subject that touched an interest so vital as the maritime power of the Republic.
It suggests a nation vast in numbers and in power, existing not as an aggregate of fragments, but as an organic unit, the vital spirit of the whole prevailing in each of its parts; and consequently predicts a man suitable for wide and yet intimate societies.
The air of England seems favorable to richness and abundance of blood; there the life-vessels sit deep, and bring opulent cargoes to the flesh-shores; and the rotund figure, the ruddy solid cheek, and the leisurely complacent movement, all show how well supported and stored with vital resources the Englishman is.
The only falsehoods of appalling efficacy for evil are those which circulate subtly in the vital unconsciousness of powerful but obscure or undemonstrative natures,deadly from the intimacy which also makes them secret and secure, and silently perverting to their own purposes the normal vigors of the system.
His manner indicated that a mysterious and untold tragedy lay behind what they had heard, a tragedy pregnant with primordial vital passions, involving the most sacred of human relationships, which when known would rouse the spirit of chivalry of the entire panel.
The fact that the girl has acquired the habit of dropping a little cologne on a lump of sugar and nibbling it when tired or depressed gives an indication of the struggle that the children have before them, a struggle of their own, in the midst of their luxurious surroundings, more vital, more real, perhaps, than any that Mr. Chambers has yet depicted.
Of these differences the most vital was in the character of the international guaranty of territorial and political sovereignty.
An immediate restoration of peace was, as I then saw it, of vital importance to the world as it was the universal demand of all mankind.
While other questions vital to a preliminary peace treaty were brought up in the Council of Ten, he showed a disposition to keep them open and to avoid their settlement until the Covenant had been reported to the Conference.
Not on the very Alps, where their black needles seem to dart into the blue depths, or snow-fields to mingle with the clouds, is the immediate, vital sympathy of Earth with Heaven more evident and striking.
Blood and treasure, poured out like water, have been the beginnings of retribution in one case; a deeper and more vital punishment, such as belongs to bosom-sins, awaits us in the other.
Having bestowed a line of alternate sections on this immense undertaking,vital in importance, and impossible without such aid,the Government at once doubled the price of the intermediate sections, and sold them at the doubled price, though they had been years, and might have been ages, in market unsold, without means of communication and building.
It is Life,that is, pregnant with vital energy, and capable of infinite transmutations.
The apocalyptic vision granted her Of Love immortal, vital and supreme, Kept by the grace of God all undefiled, Had dowered her with largess; what she gave, Albeit not the utmost, was more worth Than best had been from her starved soul before.
"He has no right to refuse to talk with me about such a vital matter."
And, if I send down to the south inquiring about you, I got an idea that I'll find out enough to hang ten like you, eh?" Once more Arizona received a vital blow, and he winced under the impact.
The motor kept up its insistent humming, and there was not a quiver to indicate that a vital part of the monoplane had been injured.