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Meanings of inanimate things in English

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Usage of inanimate things in English
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The same conclusion may be reached in the case of inanimate things.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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There is often a perverseness in inanimate things which is beyond endurance.
The Lost Trail
3
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things.
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
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There is a terrible amount of total depravity in animate and inanimate things.
Bits about Home Matters
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Richard was struck by the subtile irony which lay in these inanimate things.
The Stillwater Tragedy
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But to inspire the affection of inanimate things is something greater.
Not that it Matters
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Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.
The Fountains of Paradise
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He saw their forms, but saw them as the forms of inanimate things.
Hyperion
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There is one law that regulates all animate and inanimate things.
Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Ch...
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When it comes to dealing with inanimate things, books of rules are invaluable.
Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View
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Oh, no; nothing of that sort: just the cursed depravity of inanimate things.
Empire Builders
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They abstained from bloody sacrifices; and lived on fruits or vegetables or inanimate things.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
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But with the quiet glee of inanimate things the snap immediately snapped out again.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
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Even the inanimate things belonging to a heretic were accursed.
History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 01
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Somehow, handling these familiar inanimate things was the acutest torture.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
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Without that privilege, we should cease to be intelligences, and become as inanimate things.
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