"Living thing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whom belongs this valley fair, That sleeps beneath the filmy air, Even like a living thing? Silent as infant at the breast, Save a still sound that speaks ...
— The Crater • James Fenimore Cooper
... shall agree. Then can you come to-day? My house is so hollow and dismal that I want some living thing there." ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... questioned him half humorously, half in alarm. From his broad brow to his strong hand, playing idly with a little heap of bread crumbs, she knew that she was conscious of his presence—with a consciousness that had quickened into a living thing. ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... apart from the activity of mind, whereby motion is related to that which is not motion, this planet could never have held the wonderful being, who in multiplying has replenished the earth and subdued it—holding dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth. ...
— Mind and Motion and Monism • George John Romanes
... though Birbanta had made the tanks, it was God who had made the water in them and so he considered that his cattle had a perfect right to drink the water. When Birbanta heard this he fell into a rage and vowed that he would not let the cattle drink, but would kill every living thing that went down to the water. From that day he let no one drink from his tanks: when women went to draw water he used to smash their water pots and put the rims round their necks like necklaces: all wild birds and animals he shot: and the cattle ...
— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas
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