They also think that the vigorous faculties of the mind are derived from the brain, on which account, I have seen some of their heroes drink out of a human skull; they imagine, they only imbibe the good qualities it formerly contained.
When Sir Charles M'Carthy was killed by the Ashantees in 1824, it is said that his heart was devoured by the chiefs of the Ashantee army, who hoped by this means to imbibe his courage.
But he had previously said that the dry substance wished to imbibe fatty humour, and therefore it was borne towards it.
For metals imbibe quicksilver, just as clay water; nor do they do this unless they are touching, for quicksilver does not allure gold or lead to itself from afar, but they remain motionless in their places.
Assuredly for the body to imbibe muddy waters is a different thing from sucking in the transparency of a sweet fountain.
By no bitter antidote, but by a delicious draught, you shall imbibe life--life, in itself the sweetest of all things.
Mere perusal at the average reading pace is not the way to imbibe the contents of any work of importance, especially if the subject is new and difficult.
To overtake all these would employ several years of learned leisure; and to imbibe their substance would be a rich and varied culture, especially of the poetic and rhetorical kind.
Even to imbibe the best qualities of the style of Thucydides would not require whole pages to be learnt verbatim; a much better way would readily occur to any intelligent man.
They might, living alongside a civilized community, gradually imbibe civilized ideas and habits.
Although these vampires only imbibe a few ounces of blood, the subsequent haemorrhage is very great, and full-grown mules sometimes die of the exhaustion caused by their repeated attacks.
Neither will they, for any consideration, allow themselves to imbibe the spirit of the world, or be tempted to lose their faith, which will be the result with those who divide their interests, devoting some to other organizations.
He had a snug bar curtained with crimson drapery, for the convenience of those who, declining the ostentation of the public room, might prefer to imbibe their morning-draught with becoming privacy.
Let us take a turn around the town and imbibe a little fog.
It is a shame to leave him to be educated by our enemies, who will give him evil counsel; whereas, brought up by the coadjutor, for instance, he would imbibe national principles and love his people.
And these excellent young curates--I almost wish it was Protestant to speak a word behind a board to them and imbibe comfort.
These tubes imbibe the aqueous fluid during the day, which freezes, it is said, in the cold of the night, and expands while in the act of congelation.
But even such persons insensibly imbibe ideas and moral influences from the more cultivated society about them which, in countries less favored, are denied to multitudes.
For then it willimbibe it into it self presently; whereas if you Salt it not, till it grow cold in the air, it will not take it in.
New company, by degrees, made him imbibe new sentiments, and what he had formerly considered as miseries, began insensibly to assume the name of pleasure, and his former happiness was soon construed to be misery.
Were I totally to forsake you, man would become a senseless being, and presently imbibe the ferocity of the savage inhabitants of the forest.
We must not, however, imbibe a disadvantageous idea of Aristotle from the above exposition of his System of Generation.
The leaves now commence the process of absorption, and imbibe both uncombined gases and an unascertained but probably inconsiderable quantity of aqueous vapor from the humid atmosphere of spring which bathes them.
Plants imbibe from the air carbonic acid and other gaseous or volatile products exhaled by animals or developed by the natural phenomena of decomposition.
Or, let the cloth imbibe a little water without dipping, and hold the part over a lighted match, at a due distance.
There are substances which are said toimbibe and retain the rays of light, and to emit them only in certain situations.
Thus simply relying on Thy justifying grace, may I seek to walk in Thy footsteps and to imbibe Thy spirit.
Let me die to the world; let me not imbibe its false maxims, conform to its sinful tastes, or accord with its evil practices.
But let any peopleimbibe the spirit of Christianity, and slavery cannot exist amongst them; let all nations imbibe the spirit of Christianity, and slavery would become immediately extinguished throughout the world.
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