vegetable life
Example Sentences
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Underneath that veranda, Fitzgerald writes, if you lifted one of the loose planks, there was a good deal of rustling animal and vegetable life.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014
Somehow a slow batsman seems more vivid in the memory, infused with kind of gently throbbing vegetable life.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012
The evolution of animal from vegetable life is also dealt with simply, by showing the absence of a clear dividing line at or near the lowly, ambiguous bacterium.
From Time Magazine Archive
He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather.
From Time Magazine Archive
Per contra again, Mr. Volney affirms, that it contains neither animal nor vegetable life.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
