946 Verbs to Use for the Word forms

" This discontent takes many restless forms.

But in the three voyages I have made to the moon, I have acquired so many new facts, and imparted so many to the learned men of that planet, that it is, without doubt, the subject of their active speculations at this time, and will, probably, assume a regular form long before the new science of phrenology of which you tell me, and which it must, in time, supersede.

The danger is that "the child can begin no new thing with it, cannot produce enough variety by its means; his power of creative imagination, his power of giving outward form to his own ideas are thus actually deadened.

Higher, I saw the hideous form of the dread goddess, rising up through the red gloom, thousands of fathoms above me.

It changes form, motion, semblance,but the force, the energy, neither wastes nor dies away.

I now swear that I will no more discuss either my nephew or my umbrella with any living soul, until I have found once more the familiar boyish form and alpaca canopy, or brought vengeance upon him through whom I am nephewless and without protection in the rain.

Make 3/4 pint of melted butter by recipe No. 376; put in all the ingredients except the lobster-meat, and well mix the sauce before the lobster is added to it, as it should retain its square form, and not come to table shredded and ragged.

Shelley constantly uses the form 'wert' instead of 'wast.'

The new Breviary has adopted the modern form of reference, and we now read I. Pet.

Look how the dress conceals yet shows the form and beautiful movements!

If therefore the artificer of the universe produced it by art, he would not cause it simply to be, but to be in some particular manner; for all art produces form.

Not satisfied with the hitherto established forms of punishment, Philip now expressly commanded that the more revolting means decreed by his father in the rigor of his early zeal, such as burning, living burial, and the like, should be adopted; and he somewhat more obscurely directed that the victims should be no longer publicly immolated, but secretly destroyed.

Their long, Micawber-like waiting after the exhaustion of the placers has brought on an exaggerated form of dotage.

Christianity, as one of its distinguishing features, abolished all forms of outward sacrifice, as superstitious and useless.

He was fond of reading, and being indisposed to contention, or activity of any sort, his mind had admitted the impressions of what he perused, as the stone receives a new form by the constant fall of drops of water.

The poet, he says, is a maker who creates new forms out of his inner consciousness, and at the same time an imitator.

It consists in all of five stories;the lowest, having the form of an elephant, with five hundred apartments in the rock; the second, having the form of a lion, with four hundred apartments; the third, having the form of a horse, with three hundred apartments; the fourth, having the form of an ox, with two hundred apartments; and the fifth, having the form of a pigeon, with one hundred apartments.

She reached and drew the fair form to a kneeling posture.

Motioning to Kate, Jack crept along noiselessly, and fancied he could distinguish forms through the thick screen of bushes.

In another part of the long room Arthur Weldon was leaning over a table containing the half-empty forms, as if critically examining them.

The gods of the Egyptian Pantheon were almost innumerable, since they represented every form and power of Nature, and all the passions which move the human soul; but the most remarkable of the popular deities was Osiris, who was regarded as the personification of good.

The Roman rite follows the older form of enumeration, second Sunday after Easter and so forth, and not first Sunday after Trinity.

If a man desires above all things to conduit a great business, he is by nature qualified for trade; if he desires knowledge, he is designed for a scholar; if he is always observing form, rhyme, aesthetic beauty, and striving to produce verse, he is a born poet.

For what is slavery but woe and crime, And freedom is but liberty from these; Oh perfect hours, ye come, fair and sublime, Bearing the sweet form of the baby, Peace, Shine, golden star, oh shine o'er earth and sea, A herald of the Ti

He preferred that form.

946 Verbs to Use for the Word  forms