Every sapient prophecy with regard to America has been disproved. We were forewarned that she was too free, and her liberty has proved her security. From LearnThat.org. [Frances Wright (1795 - 1852), Scottish author and speaker. Speaking of the United States forty-four years after the Revolution.]
No sapient life-forms registering at all, Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Let That Be Your Last Battlefield] Reference
The worthy and sapient burgher had kept his appointment at. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
"You have an equine rear, but a sapient head," he remarked. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
It was this sapient pair that received Cowperwood in the old. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
Though not sapient, it was scale-skinned and quite colorful. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Scales]
It was no just and sapient counsellor, in its last analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie] Reference
"No doubt," said Fritz, laughing at this sapient declaration. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Some - the infallibly sapient Roger Kimball, for example - still do. From Wordnik.com. [Terrance Heath: Three Questions, Pt 1.: Can We?] Reference
That sapient journal lately announced the dethronement of Charles X. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
Perhaps the policy won't be feasible with marginally sapient peoples. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
As sapient beings, is there anything more important than information?. From Wordnik.com. [Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] Reference
“She canna do that,” said another sapient of the same profession. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of the Canongate] Reference
Only sapient beings emitted emotions his aberrant talent could detect. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
He says these creatures aren't sapient except in groups of five or so. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Carlyle and a much inferior man being coupled by some sapient review as. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
"No, most sapient Jacques: fortunately I do not need comfort as you do.". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
I made him into a sapient tree-really a man in tree form, not a true tree. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
If I were a tree, I would be a (n): weeping willow - that, or sapient pearwood. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
In the end, is there anything more important to a sapient being than information?. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay: One Visionary Response] Reference
Your galaxy is huge, with countless desirable worlds having no sapient inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Both sapient, for a time both dominant, the gulf that separated them was not great. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
"That which lies within every sapient being and cannot be quantified needs feeding.". From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Was she familiar with the demicloning process, as it was applied to sapient entities?. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
But, alas! he had tried it, and could shake nothing, except his sad and sapient head. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
"I hope you have followed this sapient, but rather preternatural advice," said Father Letheby. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
He paused, then rubbed his digits together in a gesture nearly universal among sapient beings. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Lady O set her cane aside, hitched herself up on her bed, and fixed Portia with a sapient eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
She paused, glancing back up at the Tree of Seeds and the monstrous sapient bird perched on it. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
Imagining that the fly wanted to buy meat, this sapient vender said to it, "Do you want to buy meat?". From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
As this sapient precept dropped oracularly from his lips, a word at a time, his figure faded and turned pale. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
Washington's letters to his managers are filled with exhortations and sapient advice about all manner of things. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington: Farmer] Reference
There was no doubt of this; and nothing was left for present consolation but sapient resolutions for the future. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
The kzinti wouldn't wonder about her; their females not being sapient, any active intelligence was, in their minds, male. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
In defiance and utter contradiction of all the sapient predictions there anent, it seemed that this dreamy, poetizing Everett. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
"And there is not a breath of wind on the horrid downs," continued the sapient youth, perfectly unconscious of Frank's mimicry. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
I am not describing the soft, sapient, pretty man who lisps, nor the weak-kneed young gentleman with pink cheeks who sings tenor. From Wordnik.com. [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference
This company are moderns to a man, and, if we may judge of their capacities by their countenances, are indeed a most sapient society. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
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