inanimateness

Twice they stiffened into inanimateness as others tramped into the open.

The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954

Twice they stiffened into inanimateness as others tramped into the open.

The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954

The monads completely fill the world; there is never and nowhere a void, and never complete inanimateness and inertness.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

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.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

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.

The House of the Dead Hand 1904

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.

The House of the Dead Hand 1904

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.

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 Edith Wharton 1899

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.

The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804

Crabbe's poetry is like a museum, or curiosity-shop: every thing has the same posthumous appearance, the same inanimateness and identity of character.

Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804