The imaginary world recedes from view, and falls down like a withered leaf; and the living soul remains like a fried grain, without its power of vegetation or reproduction.
Relative velocity, the velocity with which a body approaches or recedes from another body, whether both are moving or only one.
Defn: That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance.
As science makes progress in any subject-matter, poetryrecedes from it.
To take another example, where the fossil fauna recedes a few steps farther back from our own times.
On the south it joins on to the half-circle of the coast range, which recedes from beyond the river in a wide amphitheatre, embracing both the bays and all the town.
Or the range recedes from the margin of the water, sweeping inland in the shape of a vast amphitheatre, and curving outwards again to form a distant promontory of the bold and sinuous coast.
The air bubbles rising from the sand or mud as the wave recedes mark the entrance to the burrows of worms.
Twice every twenty-four hours the sea water creeps slowly up the beach until high water is reached, and twice every twenty-four hours it recedes again toward the ocean.
When the shore alternately recedes and projects gradually, so as to trend towards a curve shape.
When a ship beating to windward approaches the shore by one board, and recedes from it when on the other.
Side-note: The Sophistes recedes from the Platonic point of view, and approaches the Aristotelian.
He presently however recedes from this doctrine, so far as to admit that wisdom, alone and per se, is not sufficient to constitute the Supreme Good: and that a certain combination of pleasure along with it is required.
That the Eleate in the Sophistes recedes from the Platonic point of view and approaches towards the Aristotelian, will be seen also if we look at the lesson of logic which he gives to Theaetetus.
This polygyny, in turn, also finally recedes in favour of monogamy.
For this very reason, however, it is also possible that tribal totemism is the older form, for on somewhat higher cultural levels it recedes in favour of the belief in protective spirits of individuals.
She recedes one or two steps, as if to give them space to approach each other.
The tail of a comet is always directed away from the Sun; it increases in size as the comet approaches the orb, and diminishes as it recedes from him.
The rock is almost severed by a fissure opening towards the sea: a wave surges in and spurts from the orifices on the landward side, then recedes and sucks the air back through them.
There was one event in his life, and his personality in it looms larger and larger as he recedesfrom it.
It broadens or narrows according as the phenomenal appearance approaches or recedes from the ideal.
As the planet alternately approaches and recedes from the sun its orbital velocity, as we have already remarked, varies between the limits of twenty-three and thirty-five miles per second, being most rapid at the point nearest the sun.
Venus recedes much farther from the solar orb than Mercury does, but both are visible only in the sunset or the sunrise sky.
The ideal of an all-embracing synthesis, such as the Middle Ages believed themselves to have attained, recedes further and further beyond the limits of what seems feasible.
It will come to be regarded, as it recedes farther and farther from our eyes, as the chief agency empowered to usher in the concluding phase, the consummation of this glorious Dispensation.
An ever-deepening gloom is settling on its fortunes as she recedes further and further from the outer fringes of the darkest zone of its agitated life and penetrates its very heart.
As the subject-matter recedes the mental datum ceases to have much similarity or inward relevance to what is its cause or its meaning.
It is inevitable, therefore, that as barbarism recedes the family should become more sensitive to its members' personal interests.
Thus, as you draw near, it becomes a line of perspective, in which each pyramid recedes and recedes behind the greater one, till only Cheops is left in solitary glory.
Recedes the bank of space; Fades away even the unfilled time, No light, no sound, not even a dream; Yet who speaks through silence?
In the mountains further east than the Shayuk it would appear that the snow-fall is so very small that the level of perpetual snow recedes to an enormous height.
That love and wisdom from the Lord is life can be seen also from this, that man grows torpid as love recedes from him, and stupid as wisdom recedes from him, and that were they to recede altogether he would become extinct.
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