Twice they stiffened into inanimateness as others tramped into the open. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Ours]
The monads completely fill the world; there is never and nowhere a void, and never complete inanimateness and inertness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
In this inanimateness of nature, in this sad uniformity of plains of snow, in this desert of fields and woods, such sadness, such distress was evident, that the heart of the traveler, who however was young and brave, was filled with a kind of mysterious fear. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
There is no pause, no meagreness, no inanimateness, but a flow, a redundance and volubility like that of a stream or of a rolling-stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
Crabbe's poetry is like a museum, or curiosity-shop: every thing has the same posthumous appearance, the same inanimateness and identity of character. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
It was hard to say whether her expression implied ill-temper or apathy; but Wyant was struck by the contrast between the fierce vitality of the doctor's age and the inanimateness of his daughter's youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1] Reference
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