Tario maintains that there is no such thing assubstance, all being created from the substanceless matter of the brain.

On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause the people'ssubstance to be drained away.

Expressions which are in no way composite signifysubstance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, or affection.

True, from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparentsubstance, somewhat resembling the thinnest shreds of isinglass, only it is almost as flexible and soft as satin; that is, previous to being dried, when it not only contracts and thickens, but becomes rather hard and brittle.

Dimmesdale, conscious that the poison of one morbid spot was infecting his heart's entiresubstance, attributed all his presentiments to no other cause.

Will it be said that the alterations ought not to have touched thesubstance of the Confederation?

The terms used in them are in theirsubstance and general meaning the same, although they seem to be different.

Those of them which have been most labored with that view, seem insubstance to amount to this: "It is not true, because the exigencies of the Union may not be susceptible of limitation, that its power of laying taxes ought to be unconfined.

"My worthy Ned," I answered, "to the poet, a pearl is a tear of the sea; to the Orientals, it is a drop of dew solidified; to the ladies, it is a jewel of an oblong shape, of a brilliancy of mother-of-pearlsubstance, which they wear on their fingers, their necks, or their ears; for the chemist it is a mixture of phosphate and carbonate of lime, with a little gelatine; and lastly, for naturalists, it is simply a morbid secretion of the organ that produces the mother-of-pearl amongst certain bivalves."

As soon as it is taken from the fire the exterior is removed, the core extracted, and the remaining part is placed in a sort of shallow stone mortar, and briskly worked with a pestle of the samesubstance. While one person is performing this operation, another takes a ripe cocoanut, and breaking it in halves, which they also do very cleverly, proceeds to grate the juicy meat into fine particles.

In quarreling about the shadow we often lose thesubstance.

Come, thou jollysubstance, with thy shining face, keep back thy inspiration, but hold forth thy tempting rewards; thy shining, chinking heap; thy quickly convertible bank-bill, big with unseen riches; thy often-varying stock; the warm, the comfortable house; and, lastly, a fair portion of that bounteous mother, whose flowing breasts yield redundant sustenance for all her numerous offspring, did not some too greedily and wantonly drive their brethren from the teat.