Meanings of animate thing in English

A window is such a gay, animate thing.

Then they waved, and the maroon and white flag stood out tense and defiant like some animate thing.

Pity is the invisible embrace which enfolds all animate things.

Until today, they'd thought demons could only animate things of the earth-ceramicor stone, concrete or clay.

If intellectual processes were responsible for life, the world no doubt would soon be bare of animate things.

As one reads on, however, one becomes aware of an intimacy and fellowship with animate things that go deeper.

He directed these epithets never at animate things, never at anything he could by mental or physical contest overcome.

A feudal baron had nothing between war and the chase-keenlyanimating things both-andwhat was called "inglorious ease".

As we look at a snake, or a spider, we know that evil is shaped like that; and not only animate things but inanimate.

Alone of animate things, Captain Vyell's coach-and-six crept forth and along the beach, as though tempted by the promise of a wintry gleam to landward.