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
"I have interpreted them in my own way," he said, "endowing them with animal and vegetable life, and with that mysterious growth of the mineral world."
From Time Magazine Archive
While thousands on thousands of soft-handed, pale-necked civilians are beginning to learn the facts of animal and vegetable life, the great burden will still be borne by the professional farmers and poultrymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
It therefore naturally moves towards spots where smaller forms of animal and vegetable life abound and conditions are favourable for the polyp.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
