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Example sentences for "its body"

  • The Academy, finding that it could not stifle my discoveries tried to make it appear that they had emanated from its body.

  • This is only a consequence of the representative nature of the soul, which is, to express what happens and what will happen in its body, by the connexion and correspondence of all the parts of the world.

  • A fuller power to represent the universe is necessarily combined with dominance over an organized troop of members; for the mind knows the universe only in so far as the universe is expressed in its body.

  • It has only two natural relations: to its body as a whole and to its effective environment.

  • The human mind is capable of perceiving a great number of things, and is so in proportion as its body is capable of receiving a great number of impressions.

  • The mind does not express the actual existence of its body, nor does it imagine the modifications of the body as actual, except while the body endures (II.

  • Emotion, in so far as it is referred to the mind, is an idea, whereby the mind affirms of its body a greater or less force of existence than before (cf.

  • In so far as the mind conceives the present existence of its body, it to that extent conceives duration which can be determined by time, and to that extent only has it the power of conceiving things in relation to time (V.

  • We have seen a British starfish with its fully-formed young ones creeping about on its body, though the usual mode of development for shore starfishes is that the young ones pass through a free-swimming larval period in the open water.

  • Note its remarkable sucking tongue, which is about twice the length of its body.

  • It deserves especial attention that von Fischer has never seen any species purposely exhibit the hinder part of its body, if not at all {272}coloured.

  • It lives alone or in pairs, and moves about very slowly, with its head curiously drawn up close to its body, with the latter arched and its limbs very angularly disposed.

  • According to the notes of this excellent field-naturalist, it has a habit of turning its head almost completely round without moving the rest of its body.

  • Its body is covered with skin instead of calcareous plates.

  • The distinguishing features of this crab are its large and hairy antennae, the hirsute margins of its abdomen and walking-feet, and the numerous hairs on the under side of its body.

  • It does not deviate from a straight path, going over elevations or through depressions without turning aside; its body conforms to the irregularities of the road and never bridges over spaces.

  • In this attitude it will stand for an hour at a time on one leg, with the other drawn close to its body, looking as dull, inert, and sluggish a bird as can well be imagined, and reduced apparently to one half of its former size.

  • The Anteater develops a temporary pouch in its body, when it lays an egg, and hatches the egg in it.

  • It was throwing its head and about forty feet of its body in a horizontal position out of the water as it passed onwards by the stern of our vessel.

  • The anaconda, however, we saw from the movements of its body, still retained sufficient vitality to be mischievous.

  • Arthur tried to seize its bridle to help it; but in another instant we saw it fall on the rocks below with a force which must have broken every bone in its body.

  • I picture it capable of feeding all over the surface of its body.

  • A Cetonia grub, which resists the scorpion's sting, even though repeatedly administered, dies in a very short time if I inject a tiny drop of my terrible fluid into any part of its body.

  • Its body is a smooth cylinder; its mouth simply a circular lip.

  • But let it contract ever so little towards the front, or, better still, let it stick out a part of its body: a vacuum is formed behind this sort of piston, which may be compared with that of a pump.

  • Patiently, with its mandibles, grain by grain, it digs a tunnel the width of its body.

  • At last Samson yielded, and told his wife how he had killed the lion and afterward found the honey in its body.

  • The bearers looked with wonder on this stranger, and set down the frame with its body, and stood still.

  • On his way he stopped to look at the dead lion; and in its body he found a swarm of bees, and honey which they had made.

  • Gringalet, furious in the extreme, barked and jumped all round the reptile, which, raising its head from the centre of the coil formed by its body, shot out its tongue.

  • The whole of its body seems to glitter; it looks as if it was blue, green, and gold color.

  • It was about three feet in length, and its hair, which was slightly waved on some parts of its body, showed it was a young one.

  • What takes place in its body in the matter of respiration is an exact counterpart of what happens in ours, and the history of its fat is simply the history of our own.

  • The Cachalot, or Spermaceti Whale, an enormous cetacean, which rivals the true whale in size, and whose head alone forms nearly the half of its body, has teeth in the lower jaw only.

  • You see a successive swelling up of the whole surface of its body, as the creature gradually pushes forward, just as if there was something in its inside rolling along from the tail to the head.

  • You see a successive swelling up of the whole surface of its body as the creature gradually pushes forward, as if there was something in its inside rolling along from the tail to the head.

  • The dead animal touches the ground throughout the length of its body.

  • For the harsh work of its two gouges, or curved chisels, the larva of the Capricorn concentrates its muscular strength in the front of its body, which swells into a pestle-head.

  • In its three years' wanderings, it always dug its gallery according to the mould of its body.


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