The only guarantee of security was wealth, provided its possessor could keep itintact against the maraudings of his own class.
It is easier to keep the reservoir intact than to compromise with leakages, as in certain conditions of the human will total abstinence is less irksome than moderation.
On the contrary, they entered gay, laughing young, a youth guarded intact by freedom and hope.
If she had had any infirmity--a wooden leg or a glass eye--she would naturally have begun by showing it to me, but as she had been spared intact she chose second best.
Nature, that is, works by what we may call 'intact ideas'.
Well, if the 'idea' of man is to be intact, he must be enveloped in a supernatural world; and nature always works by intact ideas.
The Khokandian policy had always been, however, to maintain their interests intact in Eastern Turkestan, and to weaken in every possible way the credit of the Chinese.
Afghanistan, then as now the only formidable Mahomedan territory left intact from foreign conquest, was implored by the suffering Islamites to check the Chinese advance.
If it were blasted by shells and gutted by fire, we might regret it, but what would be our feelings if it were the legacy of Edward the First, and had been handed down to us intact through six centuries?
He conjured the king to withdraw his letters patent, and to leave intact the decree which had banished the Jesuits.
The Scottish Rifles charged against intact wire entanglements which halted them in the range of a murderous rifle and machine-gun fire.
Holy saints and the knowers of the knowable one like you, are never moved by joy or grief; but remain untouched by them, as the lotuses remain intact in the water.
Meanwhile, Posts 4 and 5 remainedintact and full of fight.
However, 12 survivors in all reached Post 1, which remainedintact and resisted stoutly.
A train journey on January 9th took us to Citerne, a quiet, comfortable village, intact of war, in the French area south of the Somme.
The artillery had done its work only too well in tearing the soil to pieces; but had none the less left intact many a pill-box which would only succumb to the direct hit of a 9.
It was vitally necessary to keep this bridge intact to facilitate the supplies crossing and recrossing every minute of the night.
We reached the wagon lines with our guns still intact and we felt as safe as if we were back in our beloved Dominion.
The pan of bacon he had been cooking was still intact except that it had a coating of plaster-of-paris from the walls and ceiling of the room, and I proceeded to put it under my belt as fast as my jaws would work, and then made for my dugout.
The excavations which have been made in intact ancient beds have brought to light skulls of ancient races of man, and these skulls present characteristics which approximate them to the skull of the ape.
Sometimes it was the head, sometimes the whole bust, or sometimes the lower limbs which were consumed, the ashes being deposited by the side of the intact portions of the skeleton.
All were fully convinced of the intact state of the bed and the high antiquity of the bone which had been found.
They all brought back to England a full conviction of the antiquity and intact state of the beds explored, and also of the existence of man before the deluge of the quaternary epoch.
The professed grounds on which it has been sought, as far as might be, to maintain the received standards and methods of culture intact are likewise characteristic of the archaic temperament and of the leisure-class theory of life.
Only the living albumin (plasm) decomposes of itself in a slight degree, and to a greater extent under the influence of external excitation; the dead albumin will remain intact for a long time under favorable conditions.
It remains intact as the first attempt to give a provisional reply--if only in the form of a temporary hypothesis--on the basis of modern science to one of the chief questions of natural philosophy.
He who believes that the despotism of the accursed institution expends its malignant forces upon the slave, leaving intact the white and (so called) free population, is the victim of a most monstrous delusion.
Donauwoerth was his objective, and upon Donauwoerth he marched, leaving intact this inferior hostile force which watched his advance from the south.
These plates are allowed to remain intact for a couple of days, by which time they become as hard as a piece of fine pottery.
It was agreed that he should dismantle his fortresses with one exception, surrender his artillery, and pay an indemnity, but that his territory should remain intact and its religion undisturbed.
Greece had remained neutral in the European War, judging that the best service she could render Servia was to hold in check Bulgaria by keeping her forces intact and her communications open.
For instance, a wall has been removedintact without being broken in any part.
In the next room there were two rifles in a case; one was intact but the other was broken, and there was a hole in the wall at the point where the muzzle leant against it, and there were two holes in the same wall a story higher.
Those still intact were never brought into action, as their gunners had no time to get out of the concrete shelters in which they were huddled to escape from the annihilating fire.
It seemed almost miraculous to him that he could emerge from Rachel's tent alive and find the world outside as intact as he had left it.
There are old men who would give that woman her own weight in gold to get their hands on anintact virgin child.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intact" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
