Sentence Examples:
A voice came; and clouds, rosy, ambient, such as angels hang around the pavilion of the sun, were unfolding their glory-woven webs and weaving me in.
They breathed in deep breaths of the ambient atmosphere, chewed it up with loud smacks of enjoyment, and then blew it out, snorting like whales.
The man who employs Jargon does not get 'there' at all, even in a raw rough pioneering fashion: he just walks around 'there' in the ambient tracks of others.
Note that all animal life is cold-blooded, with a negligible difference between body and ambient temperatures.
It is around them, like the invisible but ambient air on which the eagle, with an awful gulf below, throws herself from her rocky nest in fearless freedom, and with expanded wings.
Ambient appeared to see in my appreciation of her simple establishment a sign of limited experience.
Ambient were in a good vein of work, and when we might look for the appearance of the book on which he was engaged.
Ambient left me and went to meet them; she stopped and had a few words with her husband, which I did not hear, and which ended in her taking the child by the hand and returning to the house with him.
I reflected, as we went into the house, where we found Ambient unfolding the Observer at the breakfast-table, that none of them were probably quite so queer as his sister.
Ambient gave me rather a cold stare; she seemed to be recommending me to mind my own business.
Ambient till six months after this, and therefore cannot pretend to have verified the comparison.
They built air castles and lived in them, seeing life through a poetic ambient as a long summer day in which they should ride and work and play together.
She had begun to work for her First in order to evade Aunt Beatrice; but the fever of it grew upon her, either from the ambient air of the University or from a native passion to excel in all she did.
In these changed times, something in the ambient air prevents any active intelligence from being unconscious of lands, peoples, struggles far beyond any province.
Instinct with life he seemed, something in his pose suggesting that he had either alighted from the golden, ambient air, or was about to commit himself to it.
The sun was dipping to the western edge of the bare plain, and the air was filled with ambient gold.
He owned that she had a right to her taste, which he found almost always good, and accounted for as instinctive in the absence of an imaginable culture in her imaginable ambient.
The figure must stand out as if against infinite space, surrounded by ambient air, in majestic solitude, pondering over the everlasting roll of life towards perfection.
He emerged from the depths, as a swimmer after a dive, shaking his head and opening his mouth to the ambient air.
In other words, her personal observations had ceased to be applicable except in certain details of ambient and had passed into the realm of autobiography valuable for historical reading.
This figure of speech is literally true, but only great creative geniuses have the consolation of projecting themselves beyond their ambient in time.
Research shows that, while an atmosphere is important, living systems can survive a wide range of ambient pressures and are little affected by a wide range of magnetic field strengths.
She pulled out a guinea and started matching him as they passed from the ballroom and out upon the balcony under the ambient, silver light of the romantic moon which was, indeed, shining.
The cloud remains suspended in space until the moment when, under the influence of the ambient medium, it dissolves in rain.
Opportunity to regulate temperature by behavior was limited in these snakes in traps, which tended to match ambient temperatures.
As falling is part of the stone's nature, it would be unreasonable to assert that its falling was due to the reaction exerted by the ambient air.
In order to accomplish this purpose more effectively, perhaps, as he thinks, he seeks the tall tree-tops, and for many a long and weary hour, thrills the ambient air with his sweetest music.
The different modifications provoked in the receptive system by the variations of the ambient, determine in their turn the intervention of the active system which realizes the internal variations.
In like manner the noise that I hear is not the effect of this or that motion or collision of the ambient bodies, but the sign thereof.
Yet what is the harm, if only we move and change inwardly in harmony with the ambient flux?
His style, his attitude, his product, are directly conditioned by the ambient in which he works and the problems he has set out to solve.
Could this intermediate space of ambient atmosphere lay claim to a life of fact and reality?
The struggle and its hopelessness seamed his face and clouded his brow, despite his courage, so that all too soon he lost the glow and ambient fire of his youthful days.
An individual is the sum of many victories over exterior elements, the result of many and infinite adaptations to the ambient which surrounds it.
There are men and women who very much resemble cold-blooded animals, which have the same temperature as the ambient that surrounds them, but can generate little or no heat.
The filters of a safety-suit remove, together with all the dust of the ambient air, all its character, including odor.
When the soul left the corpse, of which it kept the form, it first, as we have seen, floated in the ambient air.
The lower the ambient temperature, the more heat can be lost by convection and the less water is required for cooling.
Finally, it brings the organic functional activity into relation with the conditions of the ambient medium.
The living body is sometimes more sensitive to variations of the ambient medium than is the brute body, but at other times the reverse is the case.
The cause of the death of a tree, of an oak many centuries old, is to be found in the ambient conditions, and not in some internal condition.
One night a full moon shone clearly, and through the ambient light ominous sheets and splashes of silver glimmered in the low fields.
They have no knowledge of the ambient air, but the winds are the breath of beasts living in the four quarters of the earth.
The scanner head detects light, and you want the only internal light source to be from the scanner itself, not ambient room light or sunlight.