Force cannot initiate the movement, though cold will stop it, and heat will set in motion again the suspended animation of the leaves.

Suddenly she turned to him with more animation in her manner than she had hitherto shown.

The great number of the latter, streaming through the windows of the western wing of the building, showed how many were now collected within the walls, and gave an unusual appearance of life and animation to the place.

When, at two o'clock, he entered the club-house grounds, it was without buoyancy or any of the natural animation with which he usually went about his work.

Plants and animals, biding their time, closely followed the retiring ice, bestowing quick and joyous animation on the new-born landscapes.

It seemed to be a main thoroughfare, but with little life and animation about it at that evening hour.

Animations by A. V. Warren.

He presented the appearance of a person eminently satisfied with the present and full of hope and animation for the future.

The arrival put joy and animation into every countenance.

A lad of about thirteen turned and began pointing with animation towards a slowly approaching figure.

Marcia took her place at the table, but with less animation than usual.

Even the hens of the farm-yard cackle with no new tone of hope and animation at the birth of the English Spring.

Each stood as devoid of animation as a statue.

Mr. John Heron stood grim and gaunt opposite Ida, as if he were a figure carved out of wood, and showed no sign of animation until the end of the service, when he looked round with a sudden eagerness, and opened his large square lips as if he were going to "improve the occasion" by an address; but Mr. Wordley, who suspected him of such intention, nipped it in the bud by saying: "Will you give your arm to Miss Ida, Mr. Heron?

His eyes turned at first upon that dead, dark mountain, which presently caught the reflection of the moon (in itself a miracle of loveliness); then the moon which held the reflection of the hidden sun, which in its turn reflected the power of All; and he, a bit of suppressed animation among the rocks of the cliff, audaciously comprehending that chain of reflections and adding his own!

As has been well said of him, he had a unique power of animation without combat; it was all stimulus and yet no contest; his talk was full of youth, yet had all the wisdom of mature judgment (R.H. Hutton).

And I do not see why they should not be liable to the same diseases, since they derive life and animation from the horse.

The old woman had seen them as they were walking along the road, and her little black eyes sparkled with peculiar animation behind her great spectacles.

The universal sympathy occasioned by the happiness of a being so generally beloved as Emmeline shed new animation over the little party.

She had ruled, like a queen, in the midst of her companions; she had shed her animation through their lives, and loaded them with prodigal favors, nor once suspected that a powerful favorite might not be loved.