The value of the ornament and the value of the substance are closely connected.
They extract from the spaces between the joints of the young plant a feculent substance which supplies them with an agreeable nutriment, analogous to sago.
Its fruits contain three seeds thickly coated with a fattysubstance which yields the tallow.
The Indians of Guiana extract from the Paullinia cururu another substance with which they envenom their arrows, and which was long supposed to be the veritable Wourali.
Styrax officinale, a native of the Levant, furnishes the balsamic resinous substance known as storax, which is also one of the materials manipulated by perfumers, and in medicine is used as a stimulating expectorant.
Like the hedgehog, he can roll himself up into a ball, and present a solid impervious substance to the attacks of any adversary.
The substance of their conversation, as reported by Melville, goes far to explain Kirkcaldy’s attitude towards the party of which he had once been a zealous supporter.
It was in reply to a letter which the Lord-Lieutenant had written a few days earlier, and of which the substancemay easily be inferred from Kirkcaldy’s reply.
He became a blasphemy against all nature, for he caused to live and think and act a basic substance that before had never known the pulse and stir of animate being.
Transported beyond his age and his own individuality, he was seeing the transmutation of the being men called Khosatral Khel which crawled up from Night and the Abyss ages ago to clothe itself in the substance of the material universe.
The mental reactions are eliminated and the central nervous substance has an opportunity to build itself up.
Is it a chemical substance which poisons the brain during the sleep, or are the brain cells contracted so that the excitement cannot run over from the branches of one nerve cell into those of another?
Every person of any substance possesses several slaves, and a field, always at some distance from the village, and very carefully attended to.
I had several cut down, and the result of my observations was, that this substance is formed in the cavities of the trees, and that as they grow older it increases in quantity.
Bonpland believes to be the Moronobaea coccinea, furnishes but a small quantity of the substance employed in the trade with Angostura.
It is thus, that, on a principal vein, the appearance of a new substance in the gangue indicates to the miner the neighbourhood of a secondary vein that joins the first.
I must observe, in the first place, that the substance just described under the name of grunstein, in every respect resembles that which forms layers in the mica-slate of Cabo Blanco, and veins near Caracas.
We found in the Indian huts at Uruana the vegetable substance called touchwood of ants,* (* Yesca de hormigas.
The detonation of this muddy substance is very violent.
Here we saw for the first time that white and fungous substance which I have made known by the name of dapicho and zapis.
To this tonic impression on the nerves of the stomach the prompt and salutary effects of what are called nutritive medicaments may be attributed, such as chocolate, and every substance that gently stimulates and nourishes at the same time.
The substance is white, corky, fragile, and resembles by its laminated structure and undulating edge, the Boletus ignarius.
This substance is very superior to the ants' nests of Cayenne, which are employed in the hospitals of Europe, but can rarely be procured.
It is the absence of a nervous stimulant that renders the solitary use of a nutritive substance (as starch, gum, or sugar) less favourable to assimilation, and to the reparation of the losses which the human body undergoes.
The substance which falls down in grumous and filamentous clots is not pure caoutchouc, but perhaps a mixture of this substance with caseum and albumen.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped' for, the evidence of things not seen.
The substance was rubbery and lifelike in its resiliency, its tenacious grasp upon the Jeter-Eyer plane.
Then those next above, the gray substance retreating with what seemed to be pouting reluctance.
It seems to be some solid substance approximately a quarter mile square.
Countless fingers of shadowy gray substance were undulating up the surface of the window, like pale angleworms or white serpents of many sizes, trying to climb up a pane of glass.
Of course there should be some way to raid the Lake Baikal area and destroy any other ships in the making, besides ferreting out the secret of the invisible substance and the elements of the gravity inverter.
A search of the sky above Manhattan failed to disclose any visible substance from which the light beam might emanate.
Great masses of the gray substance still clung to the top of their cabin, like sticky tar.
It was as though the surface of this substance were globular.
Yes," said Jeter, "I know you are the rumored inventor of a substance which is invisible because light rays are bent around it instead of passing through, yet the result is as though they actually passed through.
I sense that the substance under us is malignant, inimical.
The surface of this stratospheresubstance was slippery smooth.
The materials which Sitsumi uses in the preparation of his light-ray-bending substance are found near there somehow.
Some substance or ray capable of being controlled and directed.
As above, with the red, we have here a subjective substance in an objective shell.
She seeks her substance in hard realities because she knows of nothing nobler.
In the joy of a well ordered home, be warned that this is not your rest; For the substance to come may be forgotten in the present beauty of the shadow.
I left him with the carriage, and approaching my husband told him in a few words the substance of our conversation, and requested him to invite Joseph to the library.
It was his invariable custom to place a stone or other heavy substance in his mail-bag before starting, for the purpose of sinking it in case of being pressed by the gunboats.
Lewis related in substance what he had already stated to the guard, which statement the Captain unhesitatingly received, and after a pleasant conversation, he invited the detective to accept the hospitality of the camp.
Did you never hear of writing in phosphorus, a substance that shines at night as the sea sometimes does?
How should then her eyes be clear to discern between substance and shadow?
He told the substance of the note, ending with, "If you could come with me!
Their misery at least had the grace of a high motive; ours is born of a short-sighted selfishness that grasps at the shadow of a fleeting satisfaction and loses the substance of lasting joy.
With a sigh over my lost joke, I did as I was bidden, and soon, after a vigorous shaking and the removal of a cork which I had not previously noticed, the substance within issued forth through the bottle's neck.
There is a small circle within the verge, which has had a red substance adhering to it like cement, as if it had served to fix some kind of body within the sockets.
The other instruments found on this occasion were all of flint, not the least fragment of metallicsubstance being visible.
The Antiquities of Ireland and Denmark; being the substance of two communications made to the Royal Irish Academy at its Meetings, Nov.
The projecting parts of the sides rested on a hard substance much mixed with ashes which had undergone the action of a very strong fire, and on which part of the grave had evidently been erected the funeral pile.
The secretion of a white, or bluish, waxy, or farinose substance from the surface of the body is as characteristic of this section as the nauseous odor is of the first.
This substance evaporates rapidly and will destroy all insect life, and does not injure specimens or pins nor stain the boxes.
Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, but the substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour.
It will likewise correspond with the notions of those who consider it as a mere phantom of the imagination, so devoid of substance as to elude all criticism.
The main substance with which they fill their bellies is Rice, the other things are but to give it a relish.
When they cut these Jacks, there comes running out a white thick substance like tar, and will stick just like Birdlime, which the Boyes make use of to catch Birds, which they call Cola, or bloud of the Cos.
I expect, unless my aunt, Lady Grinington, should betake herself to the tomb; and then it would be the substance of her heritage rather than the appearance of her phantom that I should consider as the support of my good resolutions.
We know at least two prominent conditions of this process, for it seems evident that it cannot take place without light and the peculiar green substance which gives the characteristic color to leaves.
No substance has ever been found in any of them which is not found in the earth.
The substanceis absorbed by the rocks where deposited and does not evaporate, therefore it would long ago have disappeared by absorption were it not that there must be vast areas of it still lying ready to be pumped to the surface.
With the help of light and this green coloring substance, known as "chlorophyll," the living substance in the leaves is able to do this marvelous work.
We are more partial to the substanceof the truth, than to shadowy forms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
