A living (or once living) entity.
1 A window is such a gay, animate thing .
2 Then they waved, and the maroon and white flag stood out tense and defiant like some animate thing .
3 Pity is the invisible embrace which enfolds all animate things .
4 Until today, they'd thought demons could only animate things of the earth-ceramicor stone, concrete or clay.
5 If intellectual processes were responsible for life, the world no doubt would soon be bare of animate things .
6 As one reads on, however, one becomes aware of an intimacy and fellowship with animate things that go deeper.
7 He directed these epithets never at animate things , never at anything he could by mental or physical contest overcome.
8 A feudal baron had nothing between war and the chase - keenly animating things both-andwhat was called "inglorious ease".
9 As we look at a snake, or a spider, we know that evil is shaped like that; and not only animate things but inanimate.
10 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.
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