It gavetangibility to the intangible, indeed, but I can not see that our situation was any better.
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But Humboldt's isothermal lines for the first time gavetangibility to these ideas, and made practicable a truly scientific study of comparative climatology.
3
His confidant Peacock suggested, from his stage experience, the outlines of a plot, to which Vivian's astuter intellect instantly gavetangibility and coloring.