"All-important" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lucy was not in the room when Mrs. Wilson was announced. I was, but I did not tell her; the all-important circumstance had escaped my memory. Where are you ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... moved towards the bay window, she was considering whether she would decide to have her say first, or whether she would let Ronnie begin. Her wonderful news was so all-important. Having made up her mind that the time had come when she might at last share it with Ronnie, it seemed almost impossible to wait one moment before telling him. On the other hand, it would be so absorbing to them both, that probably Ronnie's subject would be allowed to ...
— The Upas Tree - A Christmas Story for all the Year • Florence L. Barclay
... all-important result, there is kept up a continuous series of chemical changes in the cells. These liberate the energy, provide special substances needed by the cells, and preserve the life ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.
... utmost importance to animals in a state of nature. Therefore the conditions are favorable for their development through natural selection. The same conclusion may be extended to man; the intellect must have been all-important to him, even at a very remote period, as enabling him to invent and use language, to make weapons, tools, traps, etc., whereby, with the aid of his social habits, he long ago became the most dominant of all ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord
... by far of the traditions at our disposal for illustrating at once the dependence of the fairies upon man, and their anxiety concerning their souls' welfare, is one in which the all-important hope which we have said that they sometimes solicit from the grave and authorized lips of priests, appears as floating on the lightest breath of children. Our immediate author is James Grimm, speaking in his ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
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