Example Sentences

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And how scarifyingly he would laugh at me, if he knew what comic relics of old prudish reflexes are stirred up by the contact with his mere human livingness.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

It is the grand intelligence and livingness of Universal Spirit continually pressing forward to manifestation of itself in a glorious humanity.

From The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science by Troward, T. (Thomas)

May we not enter into the originating Spirit of Life itself, and so reproduce it in ourselves as a perennial spring of livingness?

From The Doré Lectures being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre by Troward, T. (Thomas)

In whatever way we turn the subject we shall always find that what we call the "livingness" of any individual life is ultimately measured by its intelligence.

From The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Troward, T. (Thomas)

Glimpse of its livingness will wave A light the senses can discern Across the river of the death, Their close.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George