Yet the vitality of the universe is being constantly increased, and this increase is also permanent.

"It is a fanciful idea, that whatever we say or think, is immortal; that every word we utter goes ringing through the universe forever; that every thought of the heart becomes a creation, a thing of vitality in some shape, starting forward among the things of some sort of life, never to die!

When, oh! when indeed, will the real human creature emerge from its age-long chrysalis? FOOTNOTES: And even the hundred and one humane Associations of to-day derive a great part of their enthusiasm and vitality from fighting each other! Put into English by Lady Gregory.

In this congenial soil they retain their vitality for a long time, and possibly may take on more virulent infective properties than they possessed when expelled from the diseased lungs.

It is to throw fresh vigor and intellectual vitality into the services of the Church.

If the black race possess a more exuberant vitality than some other race, then the black would not be forced to practise so severe a vital economy as some less virile folk.

He is not so great as Spenser or Shakspeare or Milton; but he has the same vitality as they, and is as wonderful as they considering his age and opportunities,a poet who constantly improved as he advanced in life, and whose greatest work was written in his old age.

But if it too sedulously observes all the Thou shalt not's of the rhetoricians, it will refine the vitality out of itself and leave its hearers unmoved.

It is, in fact, a mere particle of living jelly, without defined parts of any kindwithout a mouth, nerves, muscles, or distinct organs, and only manifesting its vitality to ordinary observation by thrusting out and retracting from all parts of its surface, long filamentous processes, which serve for arms and legs.

A nation has first to be born, then to grow; then it has to prove its passive vitality by undergoing a trial of life.

But there was vitality at the core of their creed, and its fuller triumphs were but a question of time.

Their spiritual forefathers had a stern beginning in this country; they were cradled in fierce tomes, said their prayers often amid the smoke of cannons and the tumult of armies; and maintained their vitality through one of the sternest and most revolutionary periods of modern history.

She seemed an invalid; but there was an atmosphere of overflowing vitality about her, in spite of her feebleness, which made her very presence stimulating and cheering to every one.

Even as it was, feeling convinced that the case was one of morphine poisoning, I was far from confident that I should be able to draw him back from the extreme edge of vitality on which he trembled so insecurely.

The whole affair looks very old,so old, indeed, that the front bulges forth, as if the timber framework were a little weary, at last, of standing erect so long; but the state of repair is so perfect, and there is such an indescribable aspect of continuous vitality within the system of this aged house, that you feel confident that there may be safe shelter yet, and perhaps for centuries to come, under its time-honored roof.

In speaking of the old rounds and rhymed formulas which have preserved their vitality under the effacing hand of Time, he says, "It will be obvious that many of these well-known game-rhymes were not composed by children.

Thus it was found that although vitality was retaineddepending largely upon the number of bacillifor a short time, yet withdrawal of the nutrient fluid for an hour or even less often sufficed; and it never happened that the bacilli retained vitality after a deprivation lasting twenty-four hours.

There was a thrill of new vitality throughout the city.

It loves vitality above all things, sometimes disguised by affected languor, always well kept under by the laws of good-breeding,but still it loves abundant life, opulent and showy organizations,the spherical rather than the plane trigonometry of female architecture,plenty of red blood, flashing eyes, tropical voices, and forms that bear the splendors of dress without growing pale beneath their lustre.

In spite of the vitality with which he overflowed, there was a certain timidity attaching to him.

The parents, by alcoholic poisoning, have lowered the race stock of vitality beyond the power of ascent or possibility to rise above or overcome the downward tendency.

The credit of the Government may be regarded as the very soul of the Government itselfa principle of vitality without which all its movements are languid and all its operations embarrassed.

Before the sixteenth century we may find traces of dramatic vitality among the great English seminaries; but if the supposition of Huber, in his account of English universities, is correct, the real founder of the college drama in England was a character no less dignified than its founder in Germany.