But even this spectacle is far less sublime and not a whit more substantial than what we may behold of these storm-streams of air in the mountain woods.

I could not see this Devil's cloven Foot; Nor am I such a Coxcomb to believe, But he was as substantial as his Gold.

No other tree of my acquaintance, so substantial in body, is in its foliage so thin and so pervious to the light.

"Nick" is known from one end of the National League circuit to the other as one of the most solid and substantial of the writing force, and also as one of the most demure and modest.

A joint of cold roast and boiled beef should be placed on the buffet, as being something substantial for the gentlemen of the party to partake of.

The order of food is from the most substantial to the lightest.

Can we blame him for being glad to earn something substantial at last?"

[Footnote 1: It is admitted, moreover, in the correspondence with Miss Fourmantelle that Sterne received something more substantial from the Bishop, in the shape of a purse of gold; and this strange present gave rise to a scandal on which something will be said hereafter.

The sympathy of Ohio was rich in fair fruits of substantial aidfrom the hall of the State legislature down to the humble abode of noble-minded working menand associations of the friends of Hungary, spread through that powerful commonwealth, promise a permanent, noble protection to the cause I plead.

She lived with her husband about thirty years, and until towards the end of that period, a long one for the age, we find nothing substantial against her.

o' this sort without summat substantial on.

We are very glad to find someone to take it off our shoulders if we can; so glad that we are prepared to pay him for the service, to pay him a sum which covers not only the actuarial equivalent of the risk, but something substantial over and above.

They all went into the house at about seven o'clock, after a good deal of croquet and flirtation, and found a free-and-easy kind of banquet, half tea, half luncheon, but very substantial after its kind, waiting for them in the long low dining-room.

But perhaps you would like something more substantial before tea, would you?" "Look alive, then!" Porphyrius Petrovitch went out to order tea.

There was something respectable and substantial about him, notwithstanding his moustaches and a carriage too debonair for his years."