"The first
thing required for the machine," said he, "is a body big enough to carry the entire party.
With respect to the requirements of art, a probable impossibility is to be preferred toga
thing improbable and yet possible.
He repeated that the
thing was so, and continued his account of his work.
He was fighting, tearing at a live
thing that was striking at him.
For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful
thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write.
An attempt and a risk seemed all commanding unto me; and whenever it commandeth, the living
thing risketh itself thereby.
The definition of a "momentary
thing" involves problems concerning time, since the particulars constituting a momentary
thing will not be all simultaneous, but will travel outward from the
thing with the velocity of light (in case the
thing is in vacuo).
Strictly speaking, only the
things which I have mentioned belong to the category of quantity: everything else that is called quantitative is a quantity in a secondary sense.
I meet a great many Americans, who, as a general
thing, I must say, are not as polite to me as the people over here.
And still he will go on imitating without knowing what makes a
thing good or bad, and may be expected therefore to imitate only that which appears to be good to the ignorant multitude?
This being within about a mile from the shore where I was, and the ship seeming to stand upright still, I wished myself on board, that at least I might save some necessary
things for my use.
Things which I didn't mind at all, at first, I began to mind now -- and more and more, too, all the time.