The scaffold is not a piece of carpentry; the scaffold is not a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of wood, iron and cords.
Marius, who was, perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh.
Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx.
Then swiftly muzzling Marcel's inert body she started to spring upon the bunk to wake him, when Julie Breton's arms circled her neck and aided by the drag on the rope, checked her.
The action of pleasure had come upon all at once, and we sank in an inert mass on those below us.
With elaborate care they raised theinert form of Mr. Gupperduck on to a chair.
Without such an element to overcome, the world would indeed be an inert and irrational affair.
The lightning-flash of individuality strikes the inert mass, permeates it, and a form no longer merely symmetrical, but infinite and spiritual, concentrates and molds its adequate bodily shape.
He touched the inert form on the shoulder, and said in an undertone, "Come with me away from the house, Judd.
Owing to the fact that it is an exceedingly inert substance, even more so than nitrogen, it has been termed Argon.
Would she be borne away by the victors like an inert Palladium, to be set up elsewhere on a new pedestal?
How we chafed and stifled when we lived on terra firma, pent in those horrible stone dungeons called houses and churches, and compelled to till those inert and filthy clods, year in and year out--a most stupefying existence!
The ancient Democritic or atomical physiology endows inertmatter with a motive power.
Skelton is a great creator only when he writes what baffles imitation, for it is his fate, when touching more solemn strains, to betray no quality of a poet--inert in imagination and naked in diction.
The truth was, Roldan fancied lying inert in a cave for several days as little as he fancied the somnolent life of a barrack, and Adan, who had a secret preference for the cave, was too loyal to oppose him.
Suddenly he lay down, but became so abruptly inertthat Roldan was not deceived.
I exchanged clothing with him, and it was no easy task, for he lay an inert mass.
It was empty save for a narrow cot, on which lay an inert figure, apparently asleep.
Huish read the letter with the innocent joy of amateurs, chuckled gustfully to himself, and reopened it more than once after it was folded, to repeat the pleasure, Davis meanwhile sitting inert and heavily frowning.
She seemed to lose and seize again her touch with life, now sittinginert in a sort of durable bewilderment, anon waking to feverish and weak activity.
She shook off the restraining touch of his hand as if it were contamination, and sank down upon her knees beside the inert body.
They sprang directly into the lurid flames, bending low, Brant's hands grasping the inert form lying across his shoulder.
His body seemed a leaden weight, his brain a dull, inert mass; nothing was left him but an unreasoning purpose, the iron will to press on across that desolate plain, which already reeled and writhed before his aching eyes.
It is customary to call nitrogen "an inert element" because it was hard to get it into combination with other elements.
Though Mendeléef had pointed out three missing links, he had failed to make provision for a whole group of elements since discovered, the inertgases of the helium-argon group.
Picric acid has the bad habit of attacking the metals with which it rests in contact forming sensitive picrates that are easily set off, but TNT is inert toward metals and keeps well.
The ability of caustic lime to improve the physical condition of land and to make inert plant food available has led many farmers to treat it as a substitute for manure, sods and commercial fertilizers.
Particles of a hard limestone may lie inert in the soil for many years.
Thus, at bottom, the institution was really good, and if it had to be cauterized it was merely essential to remove the inert or corrupted parts and preserve the healthy and sound parts.
We have been wont to think that nature, the universe, is inertor physical; that man is not-inert, or spiritual.
I see no proof that Nature, in fact, is living and active, though it admittedly looks inert and dead.
Since we have no reason, from the inertness of the phenomenal, for inferring the inertness of the essential, can we know whether that essential be inert or not?
It must be felt as passive A phenomenon must be inert because it is a phenomenon.
As rest to moving things is not truly rest, but motion; so life to inert things is not truly life, but deadness.
That which is inert, therefore, differs from that which is not inert by defect.
Why must a 'phenomenon beinert because it is a phenomenon?
And in that extreme and non-natural sense of the word, the phenomenon is no more inert than is the essence.
And if we now seem to have an insuperable conviction that Man is not inert and that Nature is inert, it is not stronger than our apparent consciousness that the earth is unmoving.
I hurried to my father and found him on the couch in his study, inert in the grip of a paralytic stroke that had deprived him of the use of his limbs and also of coherent speech.
By the time Miss Camilla had been extricated from the débris as lifeless and inert as the other two, the chauffeur had returned at mad speed from the village, bringing with him a doctor and many strange appliances for resuscitation.
