III The first part of Parini's Day is Morning, that mature hour at which the hero awakes from the glories and fatigues of the past night.
The venerable minister who bore it had his thousands of ardent young disciples, as well as defenders and followers of mature age and acknowledged talent; a hundred pulpits propagated the dogmas which he had engrafted on the stock of Calvinism.
There is a noticeable difference between the case of Timon and the two other cases (diverse enough between themselves) of late or mature work but partially assignable to the hand of Shakespeare.
I divined that he spoke of that purposely to show me how seriously he looked on my significance as a mature person and the first son in the family.
I know that I am not mature yet; but have not the immature just the same feelings and the same honor as grown persons?
To the Past, with its mythic delusions, simplicity, and dense ignorance of Nature, we can never return, any more than the mature man can shrink into the fresh boy again.
You had a mature prudence,--a careful thoughtfulness for self.
Myths are the religion of youth, and of primitive, unsophisticated nations; while science may be called the religion of the mature man, full of experience and immersed in the actual.
I argued that we were young and could wait; I dreamed, too, that my ardor could outrun time, and grasp in youth the rewards ofmature life.
Suddenly the Sauk rose to his feet and stood in the attitude of listening, as though he had caught some signal.
Austen may be spared a repetition of the very painful conversation that ensued; suffice it to say that, after mature deliberation, violets were chosen.
During many of his mature years he had pondered as to how the welfare of community and State could be improved, and the result of that thought was embodied in the bills of which they had doubtless received copies.
She had never been one to indulge herself in what her old friend Eurie Mitchell used to characterize as "useless whining"; and it would be beneath the mature Christian to allow it.
It seemed strange, but the child was really helping the Christian of mature years.
But in regard to appeals, it is very material to remark, that congress is to make such regulations and exceptions, as upon mature deliberation, it shall think proper.
Mature man and woman; and we longed for each other.
Of course, he would say nothing more; it would be interesting to await the outcome of his wife's mature reflection on her folly.
A slow and subtle modification of her features was tending to a mature beauty which would make bolder claim than the charm that had characterised her in maidenhood.
Circumstance, at this stage of his career, was Harvey's god; he waited upon its direction with an air of wisdom, of mature philosophy.
Many eminent men of his time were polite to Richardson after he had won fame at the mature age of fifty.
Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esse senex=--You must become an old man soon if you would be an old man long.
Judgment is not a swift-growing plant; it requires time and culture to mature it.
These hatch and mature to chrysalids during the next six weeks, the butterflies of this brood emerging about the middle of September.
Then in spring they awaken and feed again upon the violet leaves for a short time, becoming mature and changing to chrysalids sufficiently early to emerge as butterflies late in May.
These lay eggs upon various cruciferous plants which hatch into greenish caterpillars that eat the leaves and soon mature so far as their caterpillar stage is concerned.
Perhaps because of the pre-digested nature of its food, it is able to mature much sooner than most butterfly larvae.
Eggs are laid by these for a second brood of caterpillars that feed upon the host plants in the same way as the others, and mature as butterflies late in August or early in September.
The larvae hibernate and mature early the following summer.
Then they develop into little caterpillars that feed upon the willow leaves and mature in time to form chrysalids early in June.
In consequence these must eat for a longer period the following spring, so that the butterflies into which they mature will be likely not to appear until well along in June.
There seems to be normally but one brood each year although under exceptional conditions some of the eggs laid in July mature into butterflies the same season.
In New England and the Northern states the short life of the larva enables this insect to mature three broods each season.
The caterpillars will soon mature and change to beautiful green chrysalids with golden markings.
On hatching the caterpillars feed upon stems, leaves, flowers, and even seed pods of these plants, becoming mature in a few weeks and changing to chrysalids under the protection of such shelter as they can find.
The plants that should mature and be diffused will be kept down to the earth; those which should be warred upon and eradicated will flourish untouched, ripen their seed, and diffuse it far and wide.
He is morally certain of doing something--perhaps many things--that he will sadly wish undone, if he fails to study peculiarities and mature a plan before he begins to improve or to fit his several fields for profitable cultivation.
Less water being evaporated from drained than from undrained land, the soil will be warmer throughout the growing season; hence, the crop will be heavier, and will mature earlier.
I mentioned in a former chapter, that possibly it would be better to bury such a subject in the gulf of oblivion; but upon mature consideration, I think it advisable to portray a few of its many instances as well in times past, as now.
The new Wesleyan Chapel was fearfully rent, and doubts were at first entertained for the safety of the building; but upon a mature deliberation, it was determined to repair it without pulling it down; which has since been done.
Friedrich Wilhelm goes on visits, goes on huntings; leaves the matter to itself to mature a little.
Ibsen used to say that his chief reading, even in mature years, was always the Bible; "it is so strong and mighty.
Again a young man will marry and settle down when mature consideration would show that his career would advance much more rapidly if he were not burdened with a family.
On this rigidity which comes to mature races in the lower life as well as in man, depends the vigor with which they do their appointed work.
Though the best test for a child's book is the fact that it has charms for the grown-up, he would certainly be foolish who would insist that the great books for mature men and women be read in youth.
That every boy who is going to become a mature reader of good books needs to know the myths of Greece and Rome, goes without saying.
In mature years he can again read it and marvel at its intrinsic greatness and find it something of a reflection of his own experiences in life.
The tendency to take great books for mature readers, abridge and overedit them, and then present them to adventurous boys by a laboratory method of minute dissection, is annoying and foolish.
One might regret that the curious and helpful information of the notes had not been reserved for a separate treatise for mature readers, did not the amusing illustration of the court-crier by John D.
In selecting this list for schoolboys there is a temptation to take works too mature for school age.
It was the parent, my dear Dumont, of dead-sea fruit of the most mature variety.
We know of no better book to be placed into the hands of the college student or young doctor or lawyer whose casual reading or not wholly maturethinking has infected him with agnostic or Spencerian views.
Regarded as the first work of a new writer, it is simply wonderful; even as the product of mature experience it is still worthy of being termed remarkable.
Oh, there are some pretty mature Roses here," said Mrs. Pasmer, laughing evasively.
Mature ladies always like to imply something of the sort in these cases.
Whether the arguments adduced in support of this statement are sufficient to prove its accuracy must be left to the mature judgment of the scientific world.
As the man of mature years has lost the memory of his childhood, so have the civilized races of men lost, even beyond the reach of tradition, the memory of their barbaric state.
Hume does not really bring his mature powers to bear upon his early speculations, in the later work.
It may, however, be grown well on flat beds of peat soil, where its fruit will mature finely, but it cannot be so well seen.
Upon the whole the jury, after the most accurate examination and mature deliberation, brought in their verdict that one of the assailants must necessarily have done the murder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
