The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. From LearnThat.org. [Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)]
That's what I call the quintessence of domestic economy. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference
It has an odour which I can only describe as the quintessence of onions, but this is concentrated in the rind. From Wordnik.com. [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference
Astrophysicists and cosmologists have resorted to the term quintessence to describe the mysterious "dark matter" that appears to be accelerating the expansion of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Would you care to explain this 'quintessence' that you think they have not understood?. From Wordnik.com. [Comments for Damn Interesting] Reference
AKA "quintessence," which is supposedly responsible for a supposed "speeding up of the rate of expansion of the Universe," which is NOT in fact actually occurring. From Wordnik.com. [democracyarsenal.org] Reference
We may leave its "quintessence" to the illustrious Dr. Schaeffle, to whom also we willingly leave the famous phrase, "The social question is a question of the stomach.". From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History] Reference
"quintessence," after the fifth element of the Greek philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [بالاترین] Reference
But as a whole they are the typical quintessence of the. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
This gallant officer proved the quintessence of gallantry. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Love is the very quintessence of all the graces of the gospel. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
These are the quintessence of loyalty and fellowship and love. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
The darkness was as it were the quintessence of an ink-bottle. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
The law of compensation itself is the quintessence of horse sense. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
The chimney-sweeper above, is the very quintessence of affectation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
But he emphatically rejects the notion -- and this is the quintessence of. From Wordnik.com. [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference
Pantheism, which is its quintessence, did not exist in the early Vedic times. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Apart from the historical sketch, each chapter presents only the quintessence of. From Wordnik.com. [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference
Armansperg, the quintessence of Bavarian corruption in Greece, called it the Phalanx. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Most ordinary lives are the quintessence of artificiality and the grossest waste of time. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
Such pictures symbolize for us the quintessence and highest level of definite types of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Such an idea is the very quintessence of folly and the personification of foolishness and superstition. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Such, briefly interpreted, appears to have been the quintessence of the wisdom of these political sages. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
I shall not mention the toasts that were given; as we were all loyal and true, they were the quintessence of loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Quite in accordance with such tenets which we need not qualify by name, Man, to him, is but a 'quintessence of dust.'. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
"" Hamlet's quintessence is never to be wholly committed to any stance or attitude ... or indeed to anything at all. From Wordnik.com. [King Of The Canon] Reference
(Humorist; Author, "Alphabet Juice"): It may be the quintessence of glitz, but Las Vegas is part of the global economy. From Wordnik.com. [Bluff The Listener] Reference
Great Mother and the power of life-giving, its fruit, "the love apple," became the quintessence of vitality and fertility. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
All His life long, that quintessence of eternal glory, that subtle and mysterious Being, was subjected to trials and ordeals. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
In that way, The Stones were like the Count Basie band, keepers of a rhythmic quintessence that will likely vanish whenever they call it quits. From Wordnik.com. [The Stones Defiant: 'A Bigger Bang'] Reference
A glow of solitude and radiant silence pulls me closer into the depths of contemplative understanding and the quintessence of a transcendent spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Solitude] Reference
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