He considered how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner.Bacon.
Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner.Hazlitt.
Hast thou not made me here thy substitute ?Milton.
Ladies [ in Shakespeare's age] . . . wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol.De Quincey.
Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others.Congreve.
The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand.Boyle.
He substructs the religion of Asia as the base.Emerson.
It is a magnificent strong building, with a substruction very remarkable.Evelyn.
Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous, -- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French manner betrays men.De Quincey.
To subsume one proposition under another.De Quincey.
A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness.W. Pater.
The first act of consciousness was a subsumption of that of which we were conscious under this notion.Sir W. Hamilton.
But whether you see cause to go against the rule, or the subsumption under the rule.De Quincey.
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges , to avoid the force of an argument.I. Watts.
By a miserable subterfuge , they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory.Burke.
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