| 1. | I shuddered as I assigned to them in imagination a sensitive and sentient power, and even when unassisted by the lips, a capability of moral expression. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | Thus, from the very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind man. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Force has its origin in spiritual motion and this motion, flowing through the limbs of sentient animals, enlarges their muscles. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 4. | What an ominous minute is that in which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment of a sentient being Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the galleys. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | The artistic intelligence is not interested in things from this standpoint of mechanical accuracy, but in the effect of observation on the living consciousness--the sentient individual in each of us. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 6. | Science demands that phenomena be observed with the unemotional accuracy of a weighing machine, while artistic accuracy demands that things be observed by a sentient individual recording the sensations produced in him by the phenomena of life. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |