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Sentences starting with animal

Animal life had something in it akin to her own voiceless being. [11]
Animal beauty was hers, too. [11]

Sentences ending with animal

In considering the wing of a bat, he brings forward (p. 218) what appears to me (to use Auguste Comte's words) a mere metaphysical principle, namely, the preservation "in its integrity of the mammalian nature of the animal. [1]
Descartes was asked where was his library, and in reply held up the dissected body of an animal. [3]
The country squire was a long-lived but not always an intellectual animal. [4]
Besides, the king was a brave man, and he had strength, and more than once he had laid his hand on the chest of the other, as one might on a grand animal. [11]
We are reverting to the animal. [9]
He had first to help Dorippe cut the green branches, and, while thus engaged, sought pleasant gifts not only on the ground, but from his sweetheart's red lips, then moved up the mountain with his donkey, very slowly, without urging the animal. [10]
The eyes were those of a troubled and hunted animal. [4]
Man is a sporting as well as a praying animal. [6]
To study the skillful tactics and aims of Napoleon and his army from the time it entered Moscow till it was destroyed is like studying the dying leaps and shudders of a mortally wounded animal. [2]
So if you share my wish to form a brotherhood, walk with me, according to the custom of our fathers, between the halves of this slaughtered animal. [10]

Short sentences using animal

He is the money-making animal. [4]
The animal will die. [9]
Shangois was transformed--an animal. [11]

Sentences containing animal two or more times

India-rubber is modern, but the yellow animal substance which is elastic like that, and serves the same purpose in the animal economy which that serves in our mechanical contrivances, is as old as the mammalia. [6]
The Quadrumana and all the higher mammals are probably derived from an ancient marsupial animal, and this through a long line of diversified forms, from some amphibian-like creature, and this again from some fish-like animal. [1]

More example sentences with the word animal in them

I was conscious, yet for a time I had no thought: I was like something half animal, half vegetable, which feeds, yet has no mouth, nor sees, nor hears, nor has sense, but only lives. [11]
Ivry man and wumman here at Tralee looks like an animal or a bird in a zoolyogical gardin. [11]
Very often a wounded animal, hearing a rustle, rushes straight at the hunter's gun, runs forward and back again, and hastens its own end. [2]
Obviously no animal would be capable of admiring such scenes as the heavens at night, a beautiful landscape, or refined music; but such high tastes are acquired through culture, and depend on complex associations; they are not enjoyed by barbarians or by uneducated persons. [1]
And when Jason, with Mopsus's assistance, put the same ribbons on his own lank pig, it looked neither better nor prouder than before, for it was no lucky animal and did not appreciate beautiful gifts. [10]
A good dog will bark at a woodchuck-hole long after the animal has retired to a remote part of his residence, and escaped by another hole. [4]
It pervades the whole animal fabric as areolar tissue, which is the universal packing and wrapping material. [3]
Every healthy cell, whether in a vegetable or an animal, necessarily performs its function properly so long as it is supplied with its proper materials and stimuli. [3]
All these things were "packed" on the back of a led horse--and whoever has not been taught, by a Spanish adept, to pack an animal, let him never hope to do the thing by natural smartness. [5]
It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
He knew the ways of every domestic animal, and such sounds were only uttered by a little pig that felt comfortably fat, and lived under favorable circumstances. [10]
To this John was sometimes prefixed, as betokening from the purely animal point of view a certain resemblance to the imputed grimness and earnestness of the great reformer. [4]
That old life was lonely and primitive, but it had its compensating balance of bright sun, wild animal life, and an air as vivid and virile as ever stirred the veins of man. [11]
This little animal was kept in confinement, and the performance was repeatedly heard. [1]
As the sun was going down, we saw the first specimen of an animal known familiarly over two thousand miles of mountain and desert--from Kansas clear to the Pacific Ocean--as the "jackass rabbit. [5]
When the animal was at length ready to go, Davie took him by the bridle, ran by his side, coaxed him into a gallop, and then, leaping in behind, lashed him into a run, which had little respite for ten miles, uphill or down. [4]
Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed. [4]
Jacko was a very clever little animal, and behaved, in all respects, with propriety. [4]
The animal walked up to the stranger in a very sociable fashion, and began making his acquaintance, after the usual manner of well-bred dogs; that is, with the courtesies and blandishments by which the canine Chesterfield is distinguished from the ill-conditioned cur. [6]
He went down under the hoofs of the enraged animal, as his huge boar- hound, always with him, fastened on the moose's throat, dragged him to the ground, and tore gaping wounds in his neck. [11]
We are all turned loose with our animal passions and instincts, of self-preservation, by an indifferent Creator, in a wilderness, and left to find our way out as best we can. [9]
During this whole transaction the smith felt like a wild animal in the hunter's toils, and could say neither "yes" nor "no. [10]
The animal seemed to understand this, for it nodded to him. [10]
But in order to treat this subject properly, I have found it necessary to pass the whole animal kingdom in review. [1]
Klea was about to stroke the coaxing animal, but it sprang back, stared at her shyly, and, as she could not help thinking, angrily with its green eyes, and then shrank back into the corner close to Irene's couch. [10]
He was quick to see a bush move, to observe the flick of a branch, to catch the faintest sound of an animal origin. [11]
She was good to look at: warm, lovable, fascinating in her little daring wickednesses; a fiery little animal, full of splendid impulses, gifted with a perilous temperament: and she loved him. [11]
Arsenic-eating may seem to improve the condition of horses for a time,--and even of human beings, if Tschudi's stories can be trusted,--but it soon appears that its alien qualities are at war with the animal organization. [3]
This animal seems to have been more like the larvae of the existing marine Ascidians than any other known form. [1]
He is like to burst with animal spirits; he runs like a deer; he can nearly fly; and he throws himself into play with entire self-forgetfulness, and an energy that would overturn the world if his strength were proportioned to it. [4]
In the mean time, Dick Venner, who had been dashed down with his horse, was trying to extricate himself,--one of his legs being held fast under the animal, the long spur on his boot having caught in the saddle-cloth. [6]
From time to time he yawns, and stretches, and scratches himself with a tranquil, mangy enjoyment, and now and then he grunts a kind of stuffy, overfed grunt, which is full of animal contentment. [5]
I began to tighten the girths, venting my feelings on Firefly until the animal swung around and made a vicious pass at my arm. [9]
His head was thrown forward even more than his deformity compelled, his white teeth showed in a grimace of hatred; he was half-crouched, like an animal ready to spring. [11]
It had passed through various animal forms, and now began a new human course in the body of a paraschites, once more to stand after death in the presence of the judges of the under-world. [10]
What an exquisite thrill ran through my frame when the timid nose appeared, was withdrawn, poked out again, and finally followed by the entire animal, who looked cautiously about, and then hopped away to feed on the clover. [4]
The instinct of those far-off days which had been little removed from the finest animal intelligence had now developed into thought. [11]
And he and they liked me, and respected my office; but as an animal, without birth or sham title, they looked down upon me--and were not particularly private about it, either. [5]
We suspected that they had headed for the great Debil-devil Waterhole, where, it was said, the Bunyip appeared: that mysterious animal, or devil, or thing, which nobody has ever seen, but many have pretended to see. [11]
Now do not these actions clearly shew that she had in her mind a general idea or concept that some animal is to be discovered and hunted? [1]
In the woods there was not much sign of animal life, scarcely the note of a bird, but we noticed as we rode along in the otherwise primeval silence a loud and continuous humming overhead, almost like the sound of the wind in pine tops. [4]
They browse on them, as the animal to which they would not like to be compared browses on his thistles. [6]
The distance between them was very great, but the size of the animal caused him to be plainly seen. [5]
The plight of the whole army resembled that of a wounded animal which feels it is perishing and does not know what it is doing. [2]
He called himself the victim of a cruel, inexorable fate, and felt like a bunted animal driven to its last gasp and hearing the dogs and sportsmen fast coming nearer. [10]
One man renounces the use of animal food; and another of coin; and another of domestic hired service; and another of the state; and on the whole we have a commendable share of reason and hope. [6]
When you ascend the scale of being, and come to an animal that is, like ourselves, inedible, you have arrived at a result where you can rest. [4]
The animal knew the regent, and did not let her disturb its repose. [10]
It accords with the principle of the division of physiological labour, prevailing throughout the animal kingdom, that as the hands became perfected for prehension, the feet should have become perfected for support and locomotion. [1]
Further indulgence in the plant results in death, but rarely does an animal recover from even one eating of the insane weed. [4]
He said that the permission to buy Jumbo was not a concession; the purchase was made and the animal delivered before the public knew anything about it. [5]
When late in the night he reached the break in the sage, he sent the burro down ahead of him, and started an avalanche that all but buried the animal at the bottom of the trail. [13]
The sullenness about the missionary's lips became charged with a contempt more animal than human. [11]
It had called the man back to earth--he was no longer a great animal, and the rock a monster with skin and scales of stone. [11]
As with Pharaoh, the Lord hardened his heart, while he opened his mouth, as of old he opened that of the unwise animal ridden by cursing Balaam. [6]
The joy of the hunter seized him, and guided his eye over the sights of his father's rifle, as he rested the barrel on the window- sill, and the animal was his! [11]
The legs of the heavy animal were tied together with ropes, and Marx was obliged to take the ends of the knot between his teeth like a bridle, and drag the carcass to the castle. [10]
Nearer and nearer the frightened animal came; the shout of those who led the horse was in his ears: "Lie close and still, O brothers of giants! [11]
These actions of the elephant and bear can hardly be attributed to instinct or inherited habit, as they would be of little use to an animal in a state of nature. [1]
It was only the easy-going Miss Tavish and two or three others who carried along their own animal spirits and love of amusement who enjoyed the chance of a possible contretemps. [4]
The people cheer the dog and laugh: a white-handed official, in gold lace, and without his hat, rushes out to "shoo" the dog away, but is unsuccessful; for the animal dashes between his legs, and approaches the royal and carpeted steps. [4]
Dick stood at the desk in a state of utter stupefaction, staring with all his might at the beauteous Sally, as if she had been some curious animal whose like had never lived. [12]
So completely does the cast-off arm resemble a separate animal, that it was described by Cuvier as a parasitic worm under the name of Hectocotyle. [1]
Did they feel the animal underneath it yet, giving it beauty, life, glory? [11]
One string of the animal nature has been taken away, but this gives only a greater predominance to the intellectual chords. [6]
The veterinary swears the animal is ruptured. [9]
He was not that powerful virile animal of the day when he caught Al'mah in his arms and carried her off the stage at Covent Garden. [11]
It was like that of an animal in torture. [11]
The fact is that no animal appears at its best in this necessary occupation. [4]
We have seen that idiots are often very hairy, and they are apt to revert in other characters to a lower animal type. [1]
Now she rejoiced that her wealthy father imposed no restriction upon her in the management of household affairs, for she need spare no expense in choosing the animal she intended to offer as a sacrifice. [10]
The Kanaka protested that he was perfectly willing to trust the gentleman with the saddle that was already on the animal, but Smith refused to use it. [5]
I am persuaded that a too exclusively porcine diet gives a bristly character to the beard and hair, which is borrowed from the animal whose tissues these stiff-bearded compatriots of ours have too largely assimilated. [6]
I heard him talking about this animal once. [5]
Others attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming; and the tyranny of man over brute nature; these abuses polluted his food. [6]
The North American sucker is not an engaging animal in all respects; his body is comely enough, but his mouth is puckered up like that of a purse. [4]
For answer, Clarence struck the paper out of my hand, pursed up a scornful lip and said with lofty disdain: "Dismember me this animal, and return him in a basket to the base-born knave who sent him; other answer have I none! [5]
As the blood streamed from the wound and the animal fell, he broke out into a piercing laugh, and cried: "Ye fools! [10]
Then steps outside,--a stray animal, no doubt. [6]
This was a strange animal, no larger than a calf, as thin as a goat, and in some places woolly, in others as bare as a scraped poodle. [10]
He sat very stiff, and his manner of twisting his mustache reminded her of an animal sharpening its claws. [9]
Thus, it is stated on good authority that "almost every animal becomes panic-struck at the sight of the rattlesnake, and seems at once deprived of the power of motion, or the exercise of its usual instinct of self-preservation. [6]
The first animal started it, its descendants have inherited it. [5]
Eva was soon standing beside her godfather's big bay, and while patting the smooth neck of the splendid animal he said hurriedly, in a low tone: "It's fortunate that it happened so. [10]
In the hall stand the scales; the dog headed ape, the animal sacred to Toth, guides the balance. [10]
Some of these spiders could straddle over a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes the animal world can furnish. [5]
She had not sought to remove his hand, nor struggled in the least; and once it seemed as if this new development of his character, this animal fierceness, would conquer her: she admired courage. [11]
He is a sociable animal, yet he turns aside and hides behind his shield when his mother-in-law goes by. [5]
It is a significant fact, that the more the habits of any particular animal are studied by a naturalist, the more he attributes to reason and the less to unlearnt instincts. [1]
The last will show you the series of enlarging compartments successively dwelt in by the animal that inhabits the shell, which is built in a widening spiral. [6]
Will he have shortened down to four feet and a little more, like the Esquimaux, or will he have been bred up to seven feet by the use of new chemical diets, ozonized and otherwise improved atmospheres, and animal fertilizers? [6]
This lad in short trousers, torn shirt, and a frayed straw hat above his mobile and cheerful face, might be only another sort of animal, a lover like themselves of the beech-nut and the hickory-nut. [4]
The tempest which shook her shook him also, and he swayed from side to side like an animal uncertain if the moment had come to try its strength with its foe; and in truth the man was fighting with himself. [11]
The foaming animal shied at Bartja who was lying in the road, threw his rider and dragged him into the Nile, whose waves became blood-red. [10]
The minute I set eyes on an animal I know what it is. [5]
He had never seen her so buoyant; her animal spirits had never leapt so high. [11]
I have not seen any other animal do that before. [5]
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable--namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts (5. [1]
But when he saw that the horsemen did not dismount and that the wolf shook herself and ran for safety, Daniel set his chestnut galloping, not at the wolf but straight toward the wood, just as Karay had run to cut the animal off. [2]
You know,' said Sampson, looking round as if in appeal to the bruised animal, 'he's quite a remarkable man--quite! [12]

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