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Sentences ending with substance

He shines most upon such small expeditions as the exploration of the Chesapeake; then his energy, self-confidence, shrewdness, inventiveness, had free play, and his pluck and perseverance are recognized as of the true heroic substance. [4]
The reply is that matter is a phenomenon, not a substance. [6]
Persons who are shut up in that way, confined to their chambers, sometimes to their beds, have a very small amount of vital expenditure, and wear out very little of their living substance. [6]
I do not quote; but this in substance. [7]
Repeat the same process with the same quantity of fresh sugar of milk, and every grain of your powder will contain the millionth of a grain of the medicinal substance. [3]
His elbow was pressing against some hard substance. [5]
Mendicant priests do not prowl among them with baskets begging for the church and eating up their substance. [5]
I have lost my old petition, (which was brief) but will draft and enclose another--not in the words it ought to be, but in the substance. [5]
I observe that Kolliker calls the true nervous elements of the retina "the layer of gray cerebral substance. [3]
I'll pay for it, in spite of the numerous leeches that suck my substance. [10]

Short sentences using substance

He said in substance, 'Mr. [7]

Sentences containing substance two or more times

All the more exasperating, therefore, was a propinquity creating an intimacy without substance, or without the substance he craved for she had magically become for him a sort of enveloping, protecting atmosphere. [9]

More example sentences with the word substance in them

What was this wonderful substance which so astonished kings, princes, dukes, knights, and doctors? [6]
Only a little while before he had had one of those vivid dreams of Virginia which left their impression, but not their substance, to haunt him. [9]
Quite apart from wealth or position, personality plays a part more powerful than all else in the eyes of every woman who has a soul which has substance enough to exist at all. [11]
Madness, and a watching demon that whispered of substance, and sought to guide his wanderings in the night. [9]
Strangest of all was that William Wetherell understood and was not jealous of this thing: which leads us to believe that some essence of virility was lacking in him, some substance that makes the fighters and conquerors in this world. [9]
While a footman was lighting a candle, Toll communicated the substance of the news. [2]
In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
The substance has vanished, only the flavour remains. [9]
They found that two or three balls had entered his right side; one of them appeared to have passed through the substance of the lungs, while another passed into the liver. [5]
This he understood to be the substance of the objections of the gentleman from Ohio to the passage of the bill. [7]
Every grain of this powder contains the hundredth of a grain of the medicinal substance mingled with the sugar of milk. [3]
It is not thin sunshine, but a royal profusion, a golden substance, a transforming quality, a vesture of splendor for all these Mediterranean shores. [4]
At the "sugaring-off" they used to pour the hot sugar upon the snow, where it congealed, without crystallizing, into a sort of wax, which I do suppose is the most delicious substance that was ever invented. [4]
His own opinions, therefore, seem not to rest on a very firm basis, even in his own mind; and I suppose the world believes, and will continue to believe, that precisely on the substance of that change this whole agitation has arisen. [7]
This is partly the substance of what was said one winter evening before the wood fire in the library of a house in Brandon, one of the lesser New England cities. [4]
In what does the substance of those reproaches lie? [2]
I will repeat the substance of this final intuition: The one central fact an the Order of Things which solves all questions is: At this moment we were interrupted by a knock at the Master's door. [6]
After Junia read the substance of the will, she went springing up the mountain-side, as it were to work off her excitement by fatigue. [11]
She told him the substance of the letter, of David's plight, of the fever, of the intended fight, of Nahoum Pasha, of the peril to David's work. [11]
He then repeated the substance of Kitty Fagan's story, accenting the fact that she too noticed three remarkable spots on the paper which Mr. Bradshaw had pointed out to Miss Badlam as the one so important to both of them. [6]
In answer to the principal part of it, I repeat the substance of an order of the 8th and one or two telegraphic despatches sent you since. [7]
The rest of the page was resolved into a filmy floating substance, no more tangible than the ashy skeleton on which writing still lives when the paper itself has been eaten by flame, and the flame swallowed by the air. [11]
The substance of the Judge's speech on Kansas is an effort to put the free-State men in the wrong for not voting at the election of delegates to the constitutional convention. [7]
This results from the fact that they are truer to the substance of things, to universal human nature, while the French seem to be in great part an imitation, having root neither in the soil of France nor Attica. [4]
The assertion of the dignity of man and of labor is, we imagine, the sum and substance of the equality and communism of the New Testament. [4]
He was on the bridge, and was occupied with giving directions, so he asked me the substance of the letter, and handed it back to me, requesting me to make a copy of it soon and leave it in his cabin. [11]
Ex officio, as the agent of the Chippering Mill and a man of substance to boot, he was "in" politics, hail fellow well met with and an individual to be taken into account by politicians from the governor and member of congress down. [9]
Thus it was that when Jean Jacques' father died, and he came into his own, he found himself at thirty a man of substance, unmarried, who "could have had the pick of the province. [11]
Be it known that the Honourable Adam was a man of substance in this world's goods. [9]
You ask, in substance, whether I really claim that I may override all the guaranteed rights of individuals, on the plea of conserving the public safety when I may choose to say the public safety requires it. [7]
That there missionary's substance, unbeknowns to himself, actu'ly converted every last one of them heathens that took a chance at the barbacue. [5]
Carlyle said, in substance, this--I do not remember the exact words: 'This gospel is eternal--that a lie shall not live. [5]
He charges, in substance, that I invite a war of sections; that I propose all the local institutions of the different States shall become consolidated and uniform. [7]
Her means and substance wasted; her father nearly beggared by her husband's hand, and the hourly witness (for they lived now under one roof) of her ill-usage and unhappiness,--she never, but for him, bewailed her fate. [12]
This was the substance of their conversation, as I came to know long afterwards. [11]
I knew the substance of the sketch and the telling phrases of it; and so, the throwing of the rest of it into informal talk as I went along limbered it up and gave it the snap and go and freshness of an impromptu. [5]
This was the substance of Susan's testimony, which was not shaken in the least by severe cross-examination. [5]
Much of his substance he had lent to false friends never to see it more, and it would scarce be believed how many times knavish rogues had beguiled this learned man of his goods. [10]
In substance the storiette was as follows: John Brown, aged thirty-one, good, gentle, bashful, timid, lived in a quiet village in Missouri. [5]
Having never been States either in substance or in name outside of the Union, whence this magical omnipotence of "State rights," asserting a claim of power to lawfully destroy the Union itself? [7]
The kernal, the soul--let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances--is plagiarism. [5]
Simple, translucent, homogeneous solid, such as is found at the back of the cornea, or forming the intercellular substance of cartilage. [3]
Cart-loads of solid silver bricks, as large as pigs of lead, were arriving from the mills every day, and such sights as that gave substance to the wild talk about me. [5]
They did not seem to him to contain enough substance to warrant publication. [5]
After the useless search, I resumed my journey, fortified with a note of introduction to Dr. Letterman; also with a bale of oakum which I was to carry to that gentleman, this substance being employed as a substitute for lint. [6]
You would have said there can be no lamp without oil or gas, or other combustible substance, to feed it; and yet you see a filament which sheds a light like that of noon all around it, and does not waste at all. [6]
You may have said hut instead of cabin, but in substance it's the same. [5]
The dreaded voice repeated that word, and sent a thought that struck terror into her heart: Whence had come the substance of that charity? [9]
See H. J. Raymond: Life of Lincoln, p. 772] which phrase I do not remember using literally or in substance, and which I wish not to be published in any event. [7]
I asked many questions, and gathered, in substance, this: Since Reid's return from Europe, the Tribune had been flinging sneers and brutalities at me with such persistent frequency "as to attract general remark. [5]
As she was putting the letters back in their old place, she touched some cloths which seemed put in to fill up the bottom of the chest, and felt a hard round substance underneath. [10]
The attitude of Prussia compels all the little states to keep up armies, which eat up their substance, and burden the people with taxes. [4]
M. Brown-Sequard has proved by numerous experiments that the gray substance transmits sensitive impressions and muscular stimulation. [3]
Suppose, then, a physician who has a hundred patients prescribes to each of them pills made of some entirely inert substance, as starch, for instance. [3]
But I can perhaps give a deeper insight of her character if I here set down the substance of a letter written about that time, which came into my possession long afterwards. [11]
He's spread out over a good deal of ground at present, and so he's pretty thin; but come to gather him up into a lump, there's a good deal of substance to him. [8]
But she forgot one factor--the King, shadow of that substance named La Tremouille. [5]
Fix the mind on an orange, the ordinary occupation of the metaphysician: take from it (without eating it) odor, color, weight, form, substance, and peel; then let the mind still dwell on it as an orange. [4]
In the hands of modern Cabalists every substance, no matter how inert, acquires wonderful medicinal virtues, provided it be used in a proper state of purity and subdivision. [3]
Several horizontal rows of great square holes, obstructed by a thin, shiny, transparent substance, pierced the frontage of each cavern. [5]
Being the Substance of a Report to the Royal Academy of the Biological Sciences by a Committee of that Institution. [6]
There he sat --not a myth, not a shadow, but real, alive, compact of substance, and almost within touching distance with the hand. [5]
When he dies, Nirvana is his; he will be absorbed into the substance of the Supreme Deity and be at peace forever. [5]
After the first night no word had passed between the two watchers regarding the substance of Lepage's delirium. [11]
These phrases are my own--the substance, not the fashion, of her speech. [11]
Every medicinal substance must be administered in a state of the most perfect purity, and uncombined with any other. [3]
But it's too much like feedin' on live folks and devourin' widdah's substance, to lay yourself out in the eatin' way, when a fellah 's as hungry as the chap that said a turkey was too much for one 'n' not enough for two. [6]
He was even most puzzled at the tone and substance of their letters. [11]
You make that mistake when you devote your best energies to your possession of material substance, and neglect the enlargement, the training, the enrichment of the mind. [4]
What results is merely that the interviewer gives the substance of what is said and puts it in his own language and puts it in your mouth. [5]
This is the long staple textile substance of the body. [3]
Human nature is like the earth: the deeper the plough goes into the soil unploughed before, the more evil substance is turned up--evil that becomes alive as soon as the sun and the air fall upon it. [11]
In the next letter we get a sidelight on the type-setting machine, the Frankenstein monster that was draining their substance and holding out false hopes of relief and golden return. [5]
I began my letter by saying in substance that while he did not know me personally we had a mutual friend in Stanley, and that would answer for an introduction. [5]
His son would know what he meant, and to-morrow he would write down the particulars if he should succeed that night in finding again the substance through which he had attained to the greatest wonder that science had achieved since the days of Adam. [10]
The heart has its own little brains, so to speak,--small collections of nervous substance which govern its rhythmical motions under ordinary conditions. [6]
The substance of it was that his murderess is a Miss Laura Hawkins, whom he had known at Washington as a lobbyist and had some business with her. [5]
I think of it as a penitentiary, and the memory of the barred lower windows gives substance to this impression. [9]
In substance, it is this: The people say to General Taylor, "If you are elected, shall we have a national bank? [7]
In substance, this is his story: "Last autumn I was at work one morning at home, when a card came up--the card of a stranger. [5]
I set out in this campaign with the intention of conducting it strictly as a gentleman, in substance at least, if not in the outside polish. [7]
These, having lain in the water so long, were crusted with a strong substance, which they had to break with iron bars. [11]
It is asserted in substance that Mr. Vallandigham was, by a military commander, seized and tried "for no other reason than words addressed to a public meeting in criticism of the course of the administration, and in condemnation of the military orders of the general. [7]
At any rate, in substance it was this, as nearly as I can call it back to mind. [5]
But even as I stared its substance seemed to change, to dissolve, and the tower was no longer to be seen. [9]
And now, when I gave him my hand and asked him what might be his will, at first he could scarce speak, albeit he was a man of substance to whom all folks would lift their hat. [10]
The birch log holds out very well while it is green, but has not substance enough for a backlog when dry. [4]
The details of his wild environment seemed the only substance of a strange dream. [13]
She had wrapped him in that diaphanous substance with which young ladies (and sometimes older ones) are wont to deck their heroes. [9]
So we follow him from page to page and find him passing through many moods, but with one pervading spirit:-- "Melting matter into dreams, Panoramas which I saw, And whatever glows or seems Into substance, into Law. [6]
And in the heat of telling a thing that is memorised in substance only, one flashes out the happiest suddenly-begotten phrases every now and then! [5]
Thus far, however, he had absolutely no literary standing, nor is there any evidence that he had literary ambitions; his work was unformed, uncultivated--all of which seems strange, now, when we realize that somewhere behind lay the substance of immortality. [5]
All of these have been long dead, and the longer they had been dead the less like substance they looked and the more like shadows, so that the oldest was like one's breath of a frosty morning, but shaped like the living figure. [6]
On the other hand, these politicians cannot afford to ignore men of local importance like Leonard Dickinson and Adolf Scherer and Miller Gorse who represent financial substance and' responsibility. [9]
But before man had any artificial dwelling the same contrivance of mixing fibrous threads with a cohesive substance had been employed in the jointed fabric of his own spinal column. [6]
He replied he had already so directed in substance. [7]
He must have gone thither to seek once more for the lost substance after she had helped him to bed. [10]
Also, an execution from a judgment on the assigned note may take it all; it being the same thing in substance. [7]
It is necessary, for the sake of those to whom the whole subject may be new, to give in the smallest possible compass the substance of the Homoeopathic Doctrine. [3]
Nor was it expected that any party would assume to itself the entire control of legislation, and convert the means and offices of the State, and the substance of the people, into aliment for party subsistence. [7]

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