Beings

Examples

• A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Winifred did not notice human beings unless they were like herself, playful and slightly mocking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That you and the Maria should make use of what time there is as two human beings. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I could not see how human beings could enjoy the sufferings of beasts, and often of men, as they seemed to do on these occasions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I remembered the ancient fables, in which human beings are described as dissolving away through weeping into ever-gushing fountains. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Human beings have desires that are far more important than the tools and toys and churches they make to satisfy them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The mines, for him, were primarily great fields to produce bread and plenty for all the hundreds of human beings gathered about them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The truth was driven home upon him that political science is a science of human relationship with the human beings left out. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• How did he know, who knew nothing of the customs of human beings? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• You are one of those beings who must be _kept down_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This quality, therefore, consists in the relations of objects to intelligent and rational beings. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Moreover, the majority of human beings still lack economic freedom. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mr. Jones, a dried-in man of businessstood behind his desk: he seemed one of the greatest, and I one of the happiest of beings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They have a general belief in Manitous, or spiritual beings, one of them being spoken of as the Great Spirit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Why should he pretend to have anything to do with human beings at all? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Human beings were wanted only as human beings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What an ironical comment of Fate on the strivings of great beings to subordinate the senses to the soul. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Frazer's _Golden Bough_ about the ancient use of human beings as well as statues to represent gods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• St. Clare opened his eyes, and looked fixedly on the distressed beings, whom Miss Ophelia and the doctor were trying to urge from the apartment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• With all organic beings, excepting perhaps some of the very lowest, sexual reproduction seems to be essentially similar. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He was always genuinely sorry for them as human beings. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The clergy were sacred beings in Miss Ainley's eyes; no matter what might be the insignificance of the individual, his station made him holy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She is always having stalls at Fancy Fairs for the benefit of these hapless beings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Edited by Ian