One was lying on one's back in the woods, where the birds were astir and eager to begin their house-building, and twittered hysterically over the potentialities of straws and broken twigs.

But in that innocent-looking tube lay vast potentialities for evilnay, devilish certainties of dealing death and destruction.

Thus when Professor Mivart speaks of Evolution as "the continuous progress of the material universe by the unfolding of latent potentialities in harmony with a preordained end," the latent potentialities, the preordained end, the procession of one species from another, the extension of this law to every difference of time and placeall are matters of hypothesis or intuition; but by no means of exterior observation.

"On the contrary, I have found you both amusing and instructive, and I only spoke when I had exhausted your potentialities as a silent entertainer.

An infinite energy required a resisting or doggedly indifferent material, itself quasi infinite, to take the impression of its life, and render potentiality into power.

Although it was no more than just possible, he cuddled the potentiality to him as if it had been a purring kitten.