It is conditions like these that bring out the brute latent in all men.

Usually the numbers will be found to agree; that is, all the buds will have the same number of rings between them and the cut end of the branch, but occasionally a bud will remain latent for one or several seasons and then begin its growth, in which case the numbers will not agree; the difference will be the number of years it remained latent.

But the thought of it had remained latent within her for long months, and frightful evidence thereof now burst forth.

We have latent among us the talent and genius necessary to play such a part.

He was not in white flannels now, but he looked almost as wonderful to the girl in his gray business suit, with the air of easy command, and the quiet half-smile only latent on his face.

What seems to happen in fact, is this: the corpus luteum secretion stimulates the dormant cells of the mammary glands, formed during puberty, but latent until the advent of pregnancy.

Prometheus is properly the incarnation of the divine fire latent from the beginning in the soul of man.

There was much latent love to Dorothy in her heart; I may go further and say there was much latent love to God in her heart, only the latter was very latent as yet.

But I can hardly believe now that we ever really thought that there were great qualities and powers latent beneath his proud reserve.