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Meanings of as unsubstantial in English

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Usage of as unsubstantial in English
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But when the pinch came it proved as unsubstantial there as elsewhere.
The Winning of the West, Volume 4 / Louisiana and the Northwest,...
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One other reminiscence of Roosevelt at Harvard, almost as unsubstantial as this.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography
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But dismiss thy fears, and think of them as unsubstantial as the morning mist.
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
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Every sound was hushed into silence, every object appeared as unsubstantial as a shadow.
The Miller Of Old Church
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He had vanished like a shadow; was he as unsubstantial?
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
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Within a minute afterwards, he was, to all outward appearance, as unsubstantial as ever.
A Tale of Two Cities
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Obstacles which had appeared insurmountable at sunrise, showed now as unsubstantial and evanescent as shadows.
The Miller Of Old Church
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Mystic, lovely, they seemed to float above the earth, as unsubstantial as the clouds from which they rose.
The Elephant God
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Were I a fat man I could not bear it, but I am as unsubstantial as they themselves.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
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The distant, forest-crowned uplands, seen dimly in the direction toward which the ark floated, looked as unsubstantial as clouds.
A Dream of Empire; Or, The House of Blennerhassett
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Here, indeed, was the supreme vulgarity of suffering-andbefore it his own personal afflictions appeared as unsubstantial as shades.
The Wheel of Life
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Yet again, some regard the divine nature as unsubstantial and without form, while others conceive it as a substance.
The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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They were as light as thistle-down, as unsubstantial as mists upon the mountain, as wayward and flickering as will-o'-the-wisps.
The Unruly Sprite: A Partial Fairy Tale
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Ruth could not have been more discontented if all the wealth about her had been as unsubstantial as a dream.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
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I tell him, by way of joke, that he is as dim and forlorn as Memory, though as unsubstantial as Hope.
P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
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Only, beside the living, breathing-occasionallycoughing-realityof Phoebe, God was something as unsubstantial as the Binomial Theorem....
The Soul of a Bishop
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