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  • Hopefully a good aperture.†   (source)
  • A soft beam of light fell through the aperture, illuminating the crater's center, though it left the rest of the cavernous expanse in hushed twilight.†   (source)
  • The stars still shone in the aperture of sky between cliff walls that rose an impossible distance on either side.†   (source)
  • "There's a new one here!" the woman called Frau Mikes called through the aperture.†   (source)
  • " "We need a mechanism for sealing off the upper aperture too," Quentin said.†   (source)
  • But the air does not rush out of him, he fails to collapse, and you can look into the aperture of a sword cut and see, instead of bones and meat, the back of the skin on the other side.†   (source)
  • Other than this there were no openings or apertures through which light could seep.†   (source)
  • The next three weeks were a honeycomb of determination with apertures for the days to go in and out.†   (source)
  • The large-aperture towed array was at the end of a thousand-foot cable.†   (source)
  • What aperture setting did you use?†   (source)
  • From this aperture, the subterranean rivers traveling under sixty-two kilometers of ice shot into the open with an airblast like a jet engine's exhaust.†   (source)
  • Rocket launchers and mortar tubes hid under concrete covers with firing apertures.†   (source)
  • It was a simple cube of granite, the size of a toolshed, it had no windows, no apertures of any kind, only a door of polished steel and a complex set of wire antennae branching out from the roof.†   (source)
  • He focused her in his view-finder, set the aperture, adjusted the angle no more than a fraction and waited.†   (source)
  • Staring down into the black aperture, Max could hear nothing above the rain, no slapping of tentacles or gasps from the injured creature.†   (source)
  • Above was a small round aperture through which poured a shaft of scalding sunlight.†   (source)
  • "Understand what?" he said finally in a distant tone, giving her yet another small aperture through which she might try to implant a hook.†   (source)
  • With a pipette and an alcohol flame he bent a glass tube to go through the aperture where a tooth was missing so that she could drink and take liquid food without moving her cracked jaw.†   (source)
  • It was a very low-built car, a very small car, with a bonnet sloping forward to an aperture that lay close to the ground.†   (source)
  • The dish, one of the most distinctive landmarks on the Fairbanks skyline, had been erected to collect data from satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar of Walt McCandless's design.   (source)
  • The canvas I stole from it has valve apertures (triple-redundant ones, actually).†   (source)
  • The clam's siphon came into view; they saw the aperture through which its neck had retreated.†   (source)
  • Also, the bedroom has several valve apertures in its canvas.†   (source)
  • Three dwarf guards bowed and moved away from the aperture.†   (source)
  • She sat down on the chair, still warm from his flesh, and looked through the aperture.†   (source)
  • She sensed another aperture chinking open ever so slightly.†   (source)
  • When the tiny aperture of light at the mouth of the cave had shrunk to the size of an eye, Tally dropped to the stone, panting, her hands still shaking from the flight, telling herself again and again that she'd made it.†   (source)
  • Dr. Geffard teaches her the names of shells—Lambis lambis, Cypraea moneta, Lophiotoma acuta—and lets her feel the spines and apertures and whorls of each in turn.†   (source)
  • David must have been testing the range of his camera, keeping the subject the same and varying the focus, the aperture, the available light.†   (source)
  • She turned and stood before Howard, his head bent over the aperture, watching his hand move across the sketch pad.†   (source)
  • The salesman, young and eager, had plied her with technical information about apertures and f-stops and wide-angle lenses.†   (source)
  • Once through the grilled aperture of the door above her she caught a quick glimpse of a familiar face, and her heart turned to lead.†   (source)
  • Just before Pearl Harbor—Mr. Field went on in his quiet instructive tone—the Federal government opened bidding among fabricators of molded plastic for the manufacture of this dinky object, a bare two inches long, irregular in outline and containing at one end a squiggly bulge which had to fit into a similarly shaped aperture with absolute precision.†   (source)
  • A ball thrown up so as to land on the platform at the top of the tower rolled down into the interior, fell on a rapidly revolving disk, was hurled through one or other of the numerous apertures pierced in the cylindrical casing, and had to be caught.†   (source)
  • …of tons of expensive mechanism looks like after it's turned turtle three times at eighty and could give your undivided attention to the exhibition of muscular co-ordination, satanic humor, and split-second timing which was Sugar-Boy's when he whipped around a hay wagon in the face of an oncoming gasoline truck and went through the rapidly diminishing aperture close enough to give the truck driver heart failure with one rear fender and wipe the snot off a mule's nose with the other.†   (source)
  • He found himself in a lofty cavern, shaped somewhat like a Gothic chapel, of vague outline,—the only light within was that which came through the narrow aperture between the stone lips.†   (source)
  • and a slightly adenoidal lisp, like too much hot porridge, when he opened the aperture under the beautiful blond mustache.†   (source)
  • The Young Executive put his right arm about her shoulder, and kissed her with the aperture under the beautiful blond mustache, and she seized him by the sleeve and drew him over toward me, and he said, "Well, well, old boy, it's fine to see you.†   (source)
  • Then before I reached the aperture I heard the yelp of a staghound.†   (source)
  • He made a motion to indicate his length across the front of the narrow aperture.†   (source)
  • Then she stepped up on the sill and slipped through the aperture.†   (source)
  • It was necessary, at any cost, to enlarge the aperture still further.†   (source)
  • I endeavored, but of course in vain, to look through the aperture.†   (source)
  • We brought the door, too, from Falconhurst, and fitted it in the aperture we had made.†   (source)
  • Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind?†   (source)
  • A rope fastened to the edge of the aperture might have helped us down.†   (source)
  • He remained motionless and pensive, his eyes fixed on the gloomy aperture that was open at his feet.†   (source)
  • The Black Knight's eyes seemed to flash fire even through the aperture of his visor.†   (source)
  • Early the next morning, I seated myself near the little aperture to examine the newspaper.†   (source)
  • This aperture formed a sort of peep-hole.†   (source)
  • When I lifted my head I perceived the gradual contraction of its aperture.†   (source)
  • Yes, if nothing stops us; if this well has an aperture.†   (source)
  • When we first sighted it, it seemed to be empty, and, at first we thought that there was nothing suspicious about, until we saw some smoke issuing through an aperture at the side.†   (source)
  • The little pink sloth-creature was still blinking at me when my Ape-man reappeared at the aperture of the nearest of these dens, and beckoned me in.†   (source)
  • It was an oblong hut, built of mud and clay; it had at one end a wide door of stout planking, which so far had not come off the hinges, and in one of the side walls there was a square aperture, a sort of window, with three wooden bars.†   (source)
  • Joan could hear them slipping in at the hidden aperture in the back of the cabin; she could hear the low voices, but seldom what was said; she could hear these night prowlers as they departed.†   (source)
  • Raoul turned to the luminous aperture.†   (source)
  • And looking curiously and yet somehow indifferently at Clyde, while he forced it through an aperture only wide and high enough for its admission, though Clyde wanted nothing at all.†   (source)
  • The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt gray wolf.†   (source)
  • There was no door on the sides exposed to Shefford's gaze, but small apertures two-thirds the way up probably served as windows and port-holes.†   (source)
  • Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge.†   (source)
  • Crawling on all fours, I made steadily but slowly towards them, till at last, raising my head to an aperture among the leaves, I could see clear down into a little green dell beside the marsh, and closely set about with trees, where Long John Silver and another of the crew stood face to face in conversation.†   (source)
  • At every turn he expected to come upon a huge cavern full of little square stone houses, each with a small aperture like a staring dark eye.†   (source)
  • Of its five apertures, only the skylight and the two doors were large enough for the passage of a man.†   (source)
  • It was rather more of a door than window, being a large aperture closed by two wooden doors on hinges.†   (source)
  • I heard it give a peculiar thick cry, and forthwith another of these creatures appeared darkly in the deep shadow of the aperture.†   (source)
  • Then he leaned the bushy spruces slantingly against this branch on both sides, quickly improvising a V-shaped shelter with narrow aperture in front.†   (source)
  • Glancing upward, I saw the aperture, a small blue disk, in which a star was visible, while little Weena's head showed as a round black projection.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I heard a noise without, the run and smash of slipping plaster, and the triangular aperture in the wall was darkened.†   (source)
  • And then walking to within a few feet of Clyde's cell he was able to view him—at the moment lying face down on his iron cot, his arms above his head, a tray of untouched food standing in the aperture, his body sprawled and limp.†   (source)
  • The woman was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and beautiful face.†   (source)
  • The sergeant brought his lantern, and together the two men explored the little place: with a rapid glance Chauvelin noted its contents: the cauldron placed close under an aperture in the wall, and containing the last few dying embers of burned charcoal, a couple of stools, overturned as if in the haste of sudden departure, then the fisherman's tools and his nets lying in one corner, and beside them, something small and white.†   (source)
  • Swinging myself in, I found it was the aperture of a narrow horizontal tunnel in which I could lie down and rest.†   (source)
  • There was no sign of anyone, and as there were no corners, no doors, no aperture of any kind, but only the solid walls of the passage, there could be no hiding place even for him.†   (source)
  • Taking the edge of the loose flange, he bent it back towards the foot of the coffin, and holding up the candle into the aperture, motioned to me to look.†   (source)
  • The little pink sloth-creature stood in the aperture of the hut, and something else with a drab face and bright eyes came staring over its shoulder.†   (source)
  • The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture.†   (source)
  • Apparently it was considered bad form to remark these apertures; for when I pointed to this one, and tried to frame a question about it in their tongue, they were still more visibly distressed and turned away.†   (source)
  • Through the aperture in the wall I could see the top of a tree touched with gold and the warm blue of a tranquil evening sky.†   (source)
  • And then the light filtered in, not through the window, which remained black, but through a triangular aperture between a beam and a heap of broken bricks in the wall behind us.†   (source)
  • An ugly-looking man, a hunch-backed human savage to all appearance, squatting in the aperture of one of the dens, would stretch his arms and yawn, showing with startling suddenness scissor-edged incisors and sabre-like canines, keen and brilliant as knives.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Phil has fallen to work at his usual table, where he screws and unscrews, and cleans, and files, and whistles into small apertures, and blackens himself more and more, and seems to do and undo everything that can be done and undone about a gun.†   (source)
  • At his back he carried by a looped strap a rush basket, from which protruded at one end the crutch of a hay-knife, a wimble for hay-bonds being also visible in the aperture.†   (source)
  • If you stand on its summit and look at these two F-shaped spoutholes, you would take the whole head for an enormous bass-viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in its sounding-board.†   (source)
  • Edmond was obliged to assist him, for otherwise he would not have been able to enter by the small aperture which led to Dantes' chamber.†   (source)
  • A sudden heaviness overpowers me, and I grope through the surrounding darkness, to find the aperture which will restore me to daylight and the air.†   (source)
  • The aperture was so small, that the inmates had probably not thought it worth while to defend it more securely; but it was large enough to admit a boy of Oliver's size, nevertheless.†   (source)
  • My eyes had become accustomed to the dim light, and by holding my book or work in a certain position near the aperture I contrived to read and sew.†   (source)
  • Rosier gazed a moment through this aperture; he was afraid that Pansy would run away, and felt almost capable of stretching out a hand to detain her.†   (source)
  • By this time they were at the corner, where Edwards and Natty were in the act of drawing the almost helpless body of Benjamin through the aperture.†   (source)
  • In order to facilitate this operation, and to enfilade the base of the building, the upper stories projected several feet beyond the lower in the manner usual to blockhouses, and pieces of wood filled the apertures cut in the log flooring, which were intended as loops and traps.†   (source)
  • It wandered along the crest of the hill and terminated before a fragment of wall pierced by a rough aperture which had once been a door.†   (source)
  • At length they spoke together, earnestly, in the Delaware language, when Uncas, passing by the inner and most concealed aperture, cautiously left the cavern.†   (source)
  • Upon it, one of the two men lolled, half sitting and half lying, with his knees drawn up, and his feet and shoulders planted against the opposite sides of the aperture.†   (source)
  • They set noiselessly to work, and the Parsee on one side and Passepartout on the other began to loosen the bricks so as to make an aperture two feet wide.†   (source)
  • Think, too, how great must have been that strength which could have thrust the body _up_ such an aperture so forcibly that the united vigor of several persons was found barely sufficient to drag it _down!†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan remained for a moment motionless, asking himself where he could be; but soon a ray of light which penetrated through the chamber, together with the warm and perfumed air which reached him from the same aperture, the conversation of two of three ladies in language at once respectful and refined, and the word "Majesty" several times repeated, indicated clearly that he was in a closet attached to the queen's apartment.†   (source)
  • Out of the recesses of a dark closet, into which this aperture gave admittance, he brought a large pasty, baked in a pewter platter of unusual dimensions.†   (source)
  • I raised my head and saw straight above me the upper aperture of the cone, framing a bit of sky of very small circumference, but almost perfectly round.†   (source)
  • His arrival at this aperture was most opportune, for he had no sooner placed his eye at a crack, than a sight met his gaze that might well have alarmed a sentinel so young and inexperienced.†   (source)
  • That was, in fact, a marvellous grimace which was beaming at that moment through the aperture in the rose window.†   (source)
  • These apertures, of dissimilar shape and size, hang so, all together, over the human scene that we might have expected of them a greater sameness of report than we find.†   (source)
  • In an aperture of the western wall of Jerusalem hang the "oaken valves" called the Bethlehem or Joppa Gate.†   (source)
  • The morning light, however, soon stole into the aperture at the foot of the bed, betwixt those faded curtains.†   (source)
  • They both came to the door, and a chain grated, and a woman with her apron thrown over her face and head stood in the aperture.†   (source)
  • Do you two pretend to read the Dominus in the breviary, while I thrust my nose into the aperture; the recluse knows me a little.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were closed, and for more than a minute her spirit was abstracted; but the interests of the world too strongly divided her feelings to be altogether suppressed; and when they involuntarily opened again, she perceived that the streak of flame was no longer flaring in the room, though the wood around the little aperture had kindled, and the blaze was slowly mounting under the impulsion of a current of air that sucked inward.†   (source)
  • I stepped near the aperture, and was about to make a further examination, when a sudden rush of poisonous air turned me giddy, and shouting to my sons to stand off, I leaned against the rock.†   (source)
  • Ralph Touchett had been joined in his visit to the excavation by Miss Stackpole and her attendant, and these three now emerged from among the mounds of earth and stone collected round the aperture and came into sight of Isabel and her companion.†   (source)
  • The dungeons were to be distinguished, externally, from the debtors' apartments only by the size of the apertures, the thickness of the grates, and by the heads of the spikes that were driven into the logs as a protection against the illegal use of edge-tools.†   (source)
  • The island, or castle, stood in this belt of comparative light, but still the night was so dark as to cover the aperture of the ark.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bread had begun to move away from the spot where they were sitting, and he helped her through the aperture in the wall and along the homeward path.†   (source)
  • Deliberation caused sundry attacks on the moss of adjoining walls with the end of his stick, a change of his hat from the horizontal to the less so; a sense of tediousness announced itself in a lowering of the person by spreading the knees to a lozenge-shaped aperture and contorting the arms.†   (source)
  • My eye was quickly at the aperture.†   (source)
  • The two women are grouped close by the aperture; one is seated, the other is half reclining against her; there is nothing between them and the bare rock.†   (source)
  • Duncan seized a pile of the sassafras, which he drew before the passage, studiously concealing every appearance of an aperture.†   (source)
  • He was preparing to ascend a steep staircase, or rather ladder, leading to another floor of warehouses above: when a bright flash of lightning streamed down the aperture, and a peal of thunder followed, which shook the crazy building to its centre.†   (source)
  • the corpse of the daughter, head downward, was dragged therefrom; it having been thus forced up the narrow aperture for a considerable distance.†   (source)
  • Through this aperture Newman passed and found himself in a nook peculiarly favorable to quiet conversation, as probably many an earnest couple, otherwise assorted than our friends, had assured themselves.†   (source)
  • At length, the blanket was slowly raised, and the scout stood in the aperture with a countenance whose firmness evidently began to give way before a mystery that seemed to threaten some danger, against which all his cunning and experience might prove of no avail.†   (source)
  • The bay window projecting into the street, whose interior was so popular among the frequenters of the inn, was closed with shutters, in each of which appeared a heart-shaped aperture, somewhat more attenuated in the right and left ventricles than is seen in Nature.†   (source)
  • The ray of light which penetrated through this aperture made its way through a spider's circular web, which tastefully inscribed its delicate rose in the arch of the window, and in the centre of which the insect architect hung motionless, like the hub of this wheel of lace.†   (source)
  • I'll try if I cannot discover the secret spring of your confidence, and find an aperture in that marble breast through which I can shed one drop of the balm of sympathy."†   (source)
  • Who shall say how much of the eight years they have spent in that space there in front of the aperture, nursing their hope of rescue by that timid yet friendly ray of light?†   (source)
  • When spring returned, and I took in the little patch of green the aperture commanded, I asked myself how many more summers and winters I must be condemned to spend thus.†   (source)
  • The aperture was already sufficiently large for him to enter, but by waiting, he could still cling to hope, and retard the certainty of deception.†   (source)
  • "You must not—you shall not!" exclaimed Ivanhoe; "each lattice, each aperture, will be soon a mark for the archers; some random shaft—"†   (source)
  • But, from this aperture, he had never ceased to call on those without, to guard the back; and thus, when the murderer emerged at last on the house-top by the door in the roof, a loud shout proclaimed the fact to those in front, who immediately began to pour round, pressing upon each other in an unbroken stream.†   (source)
  • He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture.†   (source)
  • The spreading field, the human scene, is the "choice of subject"; the pierced aperture, either broad or balconied or slit-like and low-browed, is the "literary form"; but they are, singly or together, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher—without, in other words, the consciousness of the artist.†   (source)
  • The movements of Mabel, notwithstanding, soon awakened one so accustomed to vigilance; and then the two took a survey of what was passing around them by means of the friendly apertures.†   (source)
  • …staircases and corridors, from Mrs General's apartment,—hoodwinked by a narrow side street with a low gloomy bridge in it, and dungeon-like opposite tenements, their walls besmeared with a thousand downward stains and streaks, as if every crazy aperture in them had been weeping tears of rust into the Adriatic for centuries—to Mr Dorrit's apartment: with a whole English house-front of window, a prospect of beautiful church-domes rising into the blue sky sheer out of the water which…†   (source)
  • The aperture of the rock had been closed with stones, then this stucco had been applied, and painted to imitate granite.†   (source)
  • The aperture was so screened and narrow, that curtain or shutter had been deemed unnecessary; and when I stooped down and put aside the spray of foliage shooting over it, I could see all within.†   (source)
  • Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom.†   (source)
  • Some houses which had become insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street, by huge beams of wood reared against the walls, and firmly planted in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the nightly haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body.†   (source)
  • Herod, when he took hold of the Temple and Tower, put a facing yet more massive upon this outer wall, and shut up all the apertures but one, which yet admitted a little vitalizing air, and a ray of light not nearly strong enough to redeem the room from darkness.†   (source)
  • The first face which appeared at the aperture, with eyelids turned up to the reds, a mouth open like a maw, and a brow wrinkled like our hussar boots of the Empire, evoked such an inextinguishable peal of laughter that Homer would have taken all these louts for gods.†   (source)
  • These apertures admitted, even at mid-day, only a dim and uncertain light, which was changed for utter darkness long before the rest of the castle had lost the blessing of day.†   (source)
  • One or two of these accidents did occur, but the balls entered at an angle that deprived them of all chance of doing any injury so long as the Indians kept near the block; and if discharged from a distance, there was scarcely the possibility of one in a hundred's striking the apertures.†   (source)
  • In an apartment lighted by a row of three of these jealous apertures—one of the several distinct apartments into which the villa was divided and which were mainly occupied by foreigners of random race long resident in Florence—a gentleman was seated in company with a young girl and two good sisters from a religious house.†   (source)
  • —"Continue!" he had said for the third time, to his comedians, speaking machines; then as he was marching with great strides in front of the marble table, a fancy seized him to go and appear in his turn at the aperture of the chapel, were it only for the pleasure of making a grimace at that ungrateful populace.†   (source)
  • The west, too, was warm: no watery gleam chilled it — it seemed as if there was a fire lit, an altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour, and out of apertures shone a golden redness.†   (source)
  • Full of self possession, he calmly wore his way through the rock with a steady succession of light and skilful strokes, working through an aperture six inches wide at the outside.†   (source)
  • The apertures, where doors and windows stood an hour ago, disclosed a mass of raging fire; walls rocked and crumbled into the burning well; the molten lead and iron poured down, white hot, upon the ground.†   (source)
  • Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern.†   (source)
  • The process of the work was precisely that resorted to in carving out the Tombs of the Kings, yet to be seen a short distance north of Jerusalem; only when the cutting was done, cell VI. was enclosed on its outer side by a wall of prodigious stones, in which, for ventilation, narrow apertures were left bevelled like modern port-holes.†   (source)
  • He kept his word; twice a day he cast out, through the barred aperture, the provisions his jailer brought him—at first gayly, then with deliberation, and at last with regret.†   (source)
  • In a moment that part of the floor on which Dantes was resting his two hands, as he knelt with his head in the opening, suddenly gave way; he drew back smartly, while a mass of stones and earth disappeared in a hole that opened beneath the aperture he himself had formed.†   (source)
  • And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the aperture.†   (source)
  • The aperture, which was almost round, was about five feet in diameter; the dark passage was cut out in the live rock and lined with a coat of the eruptive matter which formerly issued from it; the interior was level with the ground outside, so that we were able to enter without difficulty.†   (source)
  • The door was made of thoroughly rotten cask staves, which left large apertures for the passage of his hawklike gaze.†   (source)
  • At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box.†   (source)
  • Some few minutes had elapsed, and the stranger began to show manifest signs of impatience, when a slight noise was heard outside the aperture in the roof, and almost immediately a dark shadow seemed to obstruct the flood of light that had entered it, and the figure of a man was clearly seen gazing with eager scrutiny on the immense space beneath him; then, as his eye caught sight of him in the mantle, he grasped a floating mass of thickly matted boughs, and glided down by their help to…†   (source)
  • But instead of the darkness, and the thick and mephitic atmosphere he had expected to find, Dantes saw a dim and bluish light, which, as well as the air, entered, not merely by the aperture he had just formed, but by the interstices and crevices of the rock which were visible from without, and through which he could distinguish the blue sky and the waving branches of the evergreen oaks, and the tendrils of the creepers that grew from the rocks.†   (source)
  • Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the stairs.†   (source)
  • The explosion soon followed; the upper rock was lifted from its base by the terrific force of the powder; the lower one flew into pieces; thousands of insects escaped from the aperture Dantes had previously formed, and a huge snake, like the guardian demon of the treasure, rolled himself along in darkening coils, and disappeared.†   (source)
  • It had neither windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter there, air could not.†   (source)
  • Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom.†   (source)
  • …admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the Lions' Den, and finishing with Caesar's "Podium,"), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated himself at the foot of a column, and immediately opposite a large aperture, which permitted him to enjoy a full and undisturbed view of the gigantic dimensions of the majestic ruin.†   (source)
  • He approached the hut; its door consisted of a very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads.†   (source)
  • The plaster which should have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic.†   (source)
  • An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this point.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle.†   (source)
  • In a corner near the aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM.†   (source)
  • Under the third arch of the Pont de Jena, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining aperture made by Blucher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was still recognizable on account of its whiteness.†   (source)
  • He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags— a blue linen blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn cudgel shod…†   (source)
  • His universal suavity was less an instinct of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist apertures made by drops of water.†   (source)
  • Hand by the block stood the grim figure of the executioner, his visage being concealed in a tengallon pot with two circular perforated apertures through which his eyes glowered furiously.†   (source)
  • By inserting the barrel of an arruginated male key in the hole of an unstable female lock, obtaining a purchase on the bow of the key and turning its wards from right to left, withdrawing a bolt from its staple, pulling inward spasmodically an obsolescent unhinged door and revealing an aperture for free egress and free ingress.†   (source)
  • He deposited the articles of clothing on a chair, removed his remaining articles of clothing, took from beneath the bolster at the head of the bed a folded long white nightshirt, inserted his head and arms into the proper apertures of the nightshirt, removed a pillow from the head to the foot of the bed, prepared the bedlinen accordingly and entered the bed.†   (source)
  • I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound.†   (source)
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