Darwin challenged the fixity of species. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We connect the idea of fixity with the mountains, but they seem to me to be continually pirouetting with each other, -- exchanging or entirely losing their identity. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
Human artifices such as fixity and certainty are a big bore to the immortals. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
They depend on the degree of fixity of the substance. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Chained Lines show lack of force or fixity of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
Beth's great eyes settled upon him with sudden fixity. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
There is a rigid fixity written over the face of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
"It is all tomfoolery," John answered with fixity of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
The fixity of musical pitch and freedom of degrees of force in. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it] Reference
The fixity of Zeke's staring penetrated the girl's consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
She had never seen such fixity of purpose in any man's expression. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
I responded to his words and to the fixity of his gaze by silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Her eyes stared up at the ceiling with an intense and horrible fixity. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
In certain ecstatic cases, fixity of thought produces analogous effects. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
And Chia Lin says: "there should be no fixity in your rules and arrangements.". From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
“Greeting, daughter,” returned Marufa without lessening the fixity of his gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
But to my mind there is no fixity, no absolute truth in any form of religious dogma. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Islam] Reference
This is a wonderful contrast to the fixity of position of vertebrate limbs generally. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Then the fixity of the smile became ominous: Faxon saw that its wearer was afraid to let it go. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
The fixity of gaze must, according to him, exhaust the nerve centers of the eyes and their surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
'Compulsory valuation and fixity of tenure would bring about total demoralisation and a Saturnalia of crime.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Vermont stood looking after him, his gaze almost still in its fixity; then he turned and passed up the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
"Visitors first," she nodded to the Norwegian who, as always, was staring at her with a perfectly civil fixity. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
De Candolle supposes divergence to be the natural law which has governed their growth, and not hereditary fixity. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
"Quite so," said Miss Falconer, dropping her lorgnette and giving the canvas the fixity of her unobstructed gaze. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Jouffroy settled himself to listen; his shaggy eyebrows lowering over his eyes, not in severity but in fixity of attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
The face was grotesque in its weazened fixity; the little legs were twisted, and the thin body lay crooked among its blankets. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
The purport of the passage is simply to illustrate the want of fixity in war by the changes constantly taking place in Nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
The comparative fixity of the portion of bowel struck is a matter of great importance in the production of this form of injury. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Yet, before him, as desirable as formerly, despite the painful fixity of her dry eyes, and more mysterious than ever, he saw her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
State of tension of the muscles, fasciæ, and ligaments at the moment of impact, and fixity or otherwise of the part of the body struck. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
"Thank you," she says, faintly, not knowing what else to say, and feeling thoroughly embarrassed by the fixity and duration of his regard. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Those who think that "browsing" is an education should reflect that it is like any other wandering employment, fatal to fixity of purpose. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Knowledge of Reality -- the existence of such ideas would necessarily also give permanence, fixity, law, and order to our intellectual activity. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
We should give heed to the fixity of temperamental characteristics in order to determine their adaptability to conditions that prevail at certain ages. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
To return to the goose, however, it may be remarked that it is at least as probable that its fixity of character is the cause of the neglect, as the reverse. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Emphasis upon customs as already established tends to promote fixity and repetition, and to discourage change regardless of the benefits to be derived from specific changes. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
At first a sceptic, he began experimenting and proved that fixity of gaze had in some way such an influence on the nervous system of the subject that he went off into a sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
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