Realm

Examples

• A railway here in Asia--in the dreamy realm of the Orient--in the fabled land of the Arabian Nights--is a strange thing to think of. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mr. Edison is preeminent in the realm of engineering. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Again he speaks, as Englishmen to-da y very well might, of the neglect, disdain even, of the country for great intellectual men, especially in the realm o f exact science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They are inevitable as the spirit and quality of an activity having specific consequences, not as forming an isolated realm of inner consciousness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If the piano is properly the queen of musical instruments, the organ may be rightly regarded, as it has been named, King in the realm of music. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The situation tended to raise the question as to the existence of anything constant and universal in the realm of nature and society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What if political methods existed in the realm of business? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• On the traces of this brilliant in cursion of the natural philosopher into the realm of mental science, later psychologists must follow but haltingly. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• When the mental is regarded as a self-contained separate realm, a counterpart fate befalls bodily activity and movements. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• William James might also be cited for his defense of those beliefs that are beyond the realm of proof. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She chased Jessie and Rose from the upper realm of the house; she forbade the housemaids to set their foot in it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• May I ask if you expect some man of title--some peer of the realm--to demand your hand? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Gradually they extended their purview of grievances to a criticism of all the affairs of the realm. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In that state the vast realm of China has remained almost down to the present time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That they were disciplinary stifled every question, subdued every doubt, and removed the subject from the realm of rational discussion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The same could then have been said of the march of the human mind in the realms of Nature. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No foreign god shall be supreme in our realMs.. Plato. The Republic.
• The voice of Burke was, however, hardly silent when the human mind suddenly awoke, and its march in the realms of government and of natural science since then cannot be regarded as slow. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• You anticipate the realms of Pluto, but you will find Arcadia. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The only way to look queenly without realms or hearts to queen it over is to look as if you had lost them; and Eustacia did that to a triumph. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• At any rate, he destroyed thirty-one kings, and divided up their realms among his Israelites. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Martin grinned as he toiled up the steep, encumbered field, difficult to the foot as a slope in the upper realms of Etna. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Powers of Europe began by a frantic claiming of the new realms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To admit all this is, as it seems to me, to enter into the realms of miracle, and to leave those of science. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Mind and the world are regarded as two independent realms of existence having certain points of contact with each other. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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