half-reasoning
- a word derived from reasoning.
Example Sentences
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How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared, half-reasoning elephant, with thine!
From An Essay on Man by Morley, Henry
The half-reasoning man arose, and would have moved towards it, but suddenly he stopped rigidly, with white and parted lips and vacantly distended eyeballs.
From A Sappho of Green Springs by Harte, Bret
The noble properties of the dog, the horse, and the "half-reasoning elephant," have long been known and praised.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
A sort of reasoning devil seems to possess us, to twitch our little morsels of unreasoned consolation, of sanctifying, mystical half-reasoning away from our peace-hungry souls.
From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Lee, Vernon
Hence, Pope is not philosophical, when he applies the epithet "half-reasoning" to the elephant.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various
