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
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
"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
Still more perplexing might it be to maintain the argument that these very insects have sprung according to a sure law of descent, from vegetable life itself.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Calderwood, Henry
