Respirationthat is, the absorption of oxygen and the exhalation of carbonic acidis the specially animal function of animals, and constitutes their fourth distinctive character.

Whether this was achieved through awe and respect for the Shamán, or through nervous absorption in the task he had undertaken, who shall say?

The individual German fulfils his life's mission by absorption into Nirvana and by having all his activities transformed in the collective whole for the benefit of the State.

A simplified device has lately rendered it practicable to make actual determinations by a few five-minute readings of the rate of oxygen absorption by the lungs.

It is this great principle of the prepotency of radiation over absorption with a diminishing atmosphere that explains the excessively low temperature of the moon's surface, a fact which also serves to indicate a very low temperature for Mars, as I have shown in Chapter VI.

Is it impossible that your study of zoologyyour thought, your absorption for years and years, in the classification, the structure, the habits of animalsmay have been stamped on your child's mind?

" Ann was sitting very straight, looking with great absorption up the river when Katie got back in the carriage with her dog.

A moment later he was staring with mystified absorption at the hat in his hands, quite as if the hat were a stranger'sand then he brushed it around and around with the cuff of his coat sleeve as if the stranger had not been careful enough of it.

Absorption from the Mouth and Stomach.

While the ground jarred with occasional tremors and the mountain puffed forth its vaporous threats, he and the surgeon, seated on a rock, gave themselves with complete absorption to the reading.

He pictured the Doge's absorption over the mother's portrait; he repeated Mary's story on the previous evening.

" "Why, Doctor," said Dr. Latimer, "you Southerners began this absorption before the war.

It seemed to be an unconscious absorption on his part of the views of another.