substance of the thing

"I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

The substance of the thing was surprisingly tough.

The new things will be indeed of the substance of the thing that is, but differing just in the measure of the will and imagination that goes to make them.

Misrepresentation (Section 18): " causing, however innocently, a party to an agreement to make a mistake as to the substance of the thing which is the subject of the agreement".

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that what a municipality calls itself doesn't matter: "It is the substance of the thing done, and not the name given to it, which controls".

And I continued: "As the truthful pen, Father, of thy dear brother wrote of it, Who put with thee Rome into the good way, Faith is the substance of the things we hope for, And evidence of those that are not seen; And this appears to me its quiddity."