vegetable life
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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
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
Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi, and to deny animal existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may be that on the wide waste fields of the Arctic zone there are places where no vegetable life exists, and there may be many thousand miles where no animal life can be found.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
