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He was well acquainted with the resources of the organization whose agents, unseen, surrounded him in that remote country house, but that their pretensions were extravagant his present immunity would seem to prove. If the speaker with the strangely arresting voice were indeed that Fire-Tongue whose mere name was synonymous with dread in certain parts of the East, then Fire-Tongue was an impostor.
The sense of activity is thus in the broadest and vaguest way synonymous with the sense of 'life. We should feel our own subjective life at least, even in noticing and proclaiming an otherwise inactive world. Our own reaction on its monotony would be the one thing experienced there in the form of something coming to pass.
Like all other rich men, he was beset continually by applicants for pecuniary aid, especially by his own countrymen. As a rule he refused to give: and he was right. He held beggary of all descriptions in strong contempt, and seemed to think that, in this country, want and fault are synonymous.
The doctor turned a surprised look towards Louise, whose face was instantly suffused with blushes. Holiday festivities and dancing parties were words synonymous in the early settlement of Minnesota, and, although Mrs.
The height of virtue is filial piety; for this is connected indissolubly with loyalty to the sovereign, who is the father of his people and the preserver of the State. Loyalty to the sovereign is synonymous with duty, and is outwardly shown by obedience. Next to parents, all superiors should be the object of reverence.
Is not domestic affection a synonymous term with domestic hearth? and where do you find either, except in honest old England?"
Brown remained connected with that journal it invariably bore the impress of his powerful intellect. The Globe and George Brown were always synonymous in the public mind, and the influence he exercised over his party no doubt a tyrannical influence at times proved the power that a man of indomitable will and tenacity of purpose can exercise in the control of a political organ.
It appears, therefore, from the above list, that the expression, animal life, is nearly synonymous with the expression, animal heat; for while Food may be regarded as the Fuel which keeps up the fire within us and Fuel serves only to prepare that Food or to increase the warmth of our bodies by addition from without Shelter and Clothing also serve only to retain the heat thus generated and absorbed.
If it be shown that all possible intelligence proceeds on the same laws as that of man, and that the essence of this is activity, permanence, or truth synonymous terms then the limitation of time ceases, and existence not in time but without regard to time, is a necessary consequence.
To Luther in 1518 Italian is synonymous with supercilious. Thus a worthy abbot in the Inn valley, writing to Erasmus in 1523, manages to achieve a Latin letter, but apologizes for only being able to write in German characters. The rising German feeling expresses itself on all sides in the letters of the humanists.
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