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  • Enthroned there under his hat, he observed our household through his un-glasses and swished the animal-tail fly swatter that denoted his station in life.†   (source)
  • Down the walls were lines denoting the breaks in the mirrors.†   (source)
  • This highly ungainly word denoting a most useful notion comes to us from the great Russian formalist critic Mikhail Bakhtin, who limits it pretty much to fiction, but I think I'll follow the example of T. S. Eliot, who, being a poet, saw that it operates throughout the realms of literature.†   (source)
  • Bright green lines denoted the buildings, allowing viewers to see inside; it reminded Mae of heat-reading visual displays.†   (source)
  • By using the number denoting the specific impulse, calculations can be made to determine the exhaust velocity of a rocket and ultimately its overall performance.†   (source)
  • Often the sheep were marked with a circle of bright iridescent spray paint to denote their owners.†   (source)
  • Those asterisks denote the passage of time.†   (source)
  • He noted the silver bar on her shoulder denoting her rank as a first lieutenant.†   (source)
  • He was astounded by its many overlapping swirls and heavy rectangles and triangles, each figure denoting a weapon emplacement or a fortified blockhouse.†   (source)
  • The middle aged sergeant had removed the two red-and-gold flags denoting the impressive rank of his superior, the commander of NATO.†   (source)
  • The sound conveyed no shock or censure, it was merely a vocal punctuation mark, denoting the acceptance of a fact.†   (source)
  • Another expression gaining currency is metrosexual, especially popular in Honolulu, denoting heterosexual men obsessed with such grooming activities as facials, manicures, and body-hair waxing, the latter now known as manscaping.†   (source)
  • He crudely referred to the comfort girl as chosen-pi, a base anatomical slur which also denoted her Koreanness.†   (source)
  • The Decemvirs of Rome, whose name denotes their number,' could more easily usurp power than any ONE of them, alone.†   (source)
  • Such was their haste that they forgot to remove the small rows of red flags denoting the narrow but safe path through the minefields, a mistake that saved hundreds of Union lives as soldiers entered the city.†   (source)
  • I make flutters with my eyelids denoting an urgent need for sleep.†   (source)
  • If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?   (source)
  • He said three failures denote uncommon strength since a weakling would have given up before trying the third time.   (source)
  • At its best, it denotes an alarmin' mistrust of one's own race."†   (source)
  • In fact, this exact phallus symbol is still used today on modern military uniforms to denote rank.†   (source)
  • The second one makes a twirling motion beside his ear, with his finger, denoting craziness.†   (source)
  • She felt sorry for middle-aged matrons who after much analysis discovered that the seat of their anxiety was in their seats; she felt sorry for persons who called their fathers My Old Man, denoting that they were raffish, probably boozy ineffective creatures who had disappointed their children dreadfully and unforgivably somewhere along the line.†   (source)
  • There was certainly no lack of steep ice in Although I use 'commercial to denote any expedition organized as a money-making venture, not all commercial expeditions are guided.†   (source)
  • Mani stones are small, flat rocks that have been meticulously carved with Sanskrit symbols denoting the Tibetan Buddhist invocation Om mani padme hum and are piled along the middle of trails to form long, low mani walls.†   (source)
  • Across the way was the ladies' room, denoted by small, uncapitalized letters of gold that read FEMMES.†   (source)
  • Although the girls wear jeans, denoting freedom, they aren't as noisy as they used to be; there are no chants, no catcalls.†   (source)
  • The headstones for Mike and Ira at Arlington are similar to all the others there: simple white slabs that denote only their names, ranks, and birth and death dates.†   (source)
  • They walked through what appeared to be a maze of antiseptic white walls broken up only by recessed white panels with glass knobs that denoted doors.†   (source)
  • It stands on the vest of every fat, pig like figure in every cartoon, for the purpose of denoting a crook, a grafter, a scoundrel-as the one sure-fire brand of evil.†   (source)
  • Denoting the passage of time.†   (source)
  • "Sayyed" is a religious title denoting a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed on both sides of the family, and Moody possessed a complex family tree, written in Farsi, to prove it.†   (source)
  • The first required a trip to the secondhand stores and pawn shops in Montmartre, where he found faded trousers and a surplus French army shirt, and an equally faded small combat ribbon that denoted a wounded veteran.†   (source)
  • Allegorically, then, the passage into a temple and the hero-dive through the jaws of the whale are identical adventures, both denoting, in the picture language, the life-centering, life-renewing act.†   (source)
  • Or on the other hand, the male figure may be regarded as symbolizing the initiating principle, the method; in which case the female denotes the goal to which initiation leads.†   (source)
  • Hung above the entrances of the temples, festooned along the streets at the New Year festival, it denotes the renovation of the world at the threshold of the return.†   (source)
  • The term mabinogi, " juvenile instruction," denotes the traditional material (myths, legends, poems, etc.) taught to a mabinog, and which it was his duty to acquire by heart.†   (source)
  • Yet such designations do not tell what it is to be man, they denote only the accidents of geography, birth-date, and income.†   (source)
  • He considered that there was denoted a lack of purpose on the part of the generals.†   (source)
  • His quick heavy breathing denoted a laboring under excitement.†   (source)
  • She had evidently anticipated an adventure, but her smiling, resolute face had denoted confidence.†   (source)
  • All this swift action denoted an inner combat, and it nearly overwhelmed him.†   (source)
  • She had inherited the feature from her mother without the quality it denoted.†   (source)
  • They fought swiftly and with a despairing savageness denoted in their expressions.†   (source)
  • Deep, distant, weird, it denoted a thunderstorm to Milly.†   (source)
  • This one denoted fire, speed, blood, loyalty, and his eyes were as soft and dark as a woman's.†   (source)
  • In the regiment there was a peculiar kind of hesitation denoted in the attitudes of the men.†   (source)
  • But his thin frame denoted strength and endurance still unimpaired.†   (source)
  • His motions plainly denoted his extreme exhaustion.†   (source)
  • He answered quite seriously, and used the word as if it denoted some profession.†   (source)
  • And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:— "A lass."†   (source)
  • A murky red and yellow sky, and a rising mist from the Seine, denoted the approach of darkness.†   (source)
  • Ned Land put in, his tone denoting reservations.†   (source)
  • We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pegler's cup, rattling against her saucer as she held it, denoted some nervousness on her part.†   (source)
  • * Sleigh is the word used in every part of the United States to denote a traineau.†   (source)
  • Some were red, and some of a green colour, which I supposed to denote various degrees of ripeness.†   (source)
  • The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined.†   (source)
  • The greater this angle, the higher intelligence denoted by the formation of the skull.†   (source)
  • A step, a gesture, a word, on your part, denoting an effort to escape, and you are to be fired upon.†   (source)
  • He is undoubtedly very much in love—every thing denotes it—very much in love indeed!†   (source)
  • They're early with the kitchen fire, and that denotes good servants.†   (source)
  • Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena.†   (source)
  • Lord Warburton broke into a smile that almost denoted hope.†   (source)
  • But I do not dispute in the least that the number of persons consumed appears to denote a spice of greediness.†   (source)
  • He lay down then among the other men and soon his deep and heavy breathing denoted the tranquil slumber of an ox.†   (source)
  • "Yes, your Excellency," replied the Jew, who spoke the language with that peculiar lisp which denotes Eastern origin, "I and Reuben Goldstein met a tall Englishman, on the road, close by here this evening."†   (source)
  • He strode over to the cursing circle, swinging his shoulders in a manner which denoted that he held victory in his fists.†   (source)
  • Well the heart here denotes the feminine in man is as that piteous woman, and hard tho' it be, she must here be ruled out.†   (source)
  • Yet something seemed to denote that she was not quite so comfortably circumstanced, nor so bouncingly attired, as she had been during Cartlett's lifetime.†   (source)
  • Indiana and Ohio, with their green pastoral farms, and numberless villages, and thriving cities, denoted a country far removed and different from the West, and an approach to the populous East.†   (source)
  • He told her that the report probably wasn't true; that, after all, a young man might take a walk with Annie from Number 54 without its denoting anything very serious.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X My intimacy with Wolf Larsen increases—if by intimacy may be denoted those relations which exist between master and man, or, better yet, between king and jester.†   (source)
  • She had expected, when she came downstairs, to find him on the watch for her; and she had found him, instead, in a situation which might well denote that he had been on the watch for another lady.†   (source)
  • But there was a feeling that "John Hatcher" or "Hatcher's John" was not the proper title by which to denote a freeman; and so in many cases "John Hatcher" was changed to "John S. Lincoln" or "John S. Sherman," the initial "S" standing for no name, it being simply a part of what the coloured man proudly called his "entitles."†   (source)
  • Maybe there's some young lady in Lincoln, now, very grand,"—Amedee waved his hand languidly before his face to denote the fan of heartless beauty,—"and you lost your heart up there.†   (source)
  • Presently he turned to Duane with an expression that denoted resignation, and yet a spirit which showed wherein they were of the same blood.†   (source)
  • The blue flag of the boat club denoted the centre of interest, beneath which a band in red uniform gave out the notes she had already heard in the death-chamber.†   (source)
  • In a flash she remembered Mrs. Trenor's complaints of Carry Fisher's rapacity, and saw that they denoted an unexpected acquaintance with her husband's private affairs.†   (source)
  • "Is that man your husband?" he asked mechanically, denoting by a sign the labourer who turned the machine.†   (source)
  • In brief, it seemed to the doctor that the prince's choice, far from being a sign of foolishness, denoted, on the contrary, a shrewd, calculating, and practical mind.†   (source)
  • Making inquiries she came to a hoarding, within which were excavations denoting the foundations of a building; and on the boards without one or two large posters announcing that the foundation-stone of the chapel about to be erected would be laid that afternoon at three o'clock by a London preacher of great popularity among his body.†   (source)
  • Though unsophisticated in the usual sense, she was not incomplete; and it would have denoted deficiency of womanhood if she had not instinctively known what an argument lies in propinquity.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bart was famous for the unlimited effect she produced on limited means; and to the lady and her acquaintances there was something heroic in living as though one were much richer than one's bank-book denoted.†   (source)
  • When Izz Huett and Tess arrived at the scene of operations only a rustling denoted that others had preceded them; to which, as the light increased, there were presently added the silhouettes of two men on the summit.†   (source)
  • They crept along towards a point in the expanse of shade just at hand at which a feeble light was beginning to assert its presence, a spot where, by day, a fitful white streak of steam at intervals upon the dark green background denoted intermittent moments of contact between their secluded world and modern life.†   (source)
  • It was said afterwards that a cottager of Wellbridge, who went out late that night for a doctor, met two lovers in the pastures, walking very slowly, without converse, one behind the other, as in a funeral procession, and the glimpse that he obtained of their faces seemed to denote that they were anxious and sad.†   (source)
  • Here the savage advanced with confidence, his hand extended, his face smiling, and his whole bearing denoting amity and respect.†   (source)
  • She was looking at everything, with an eye that denoted clear perception—at her companion, at the two dogs, at the two gentlemen under the trees, at the beautiful scene that surrounded her.†   (source)
  • At first sight, nothing denoted the cardinal; and it was impossible for those who did not know his face to guess in whose presence they were.†   (source)
  • And indeed, no sooner had he uttered these words, when all at once, like the sun going behind a cloud, her face lost all its friendliness, and Levin detected the familiar change in her expression that denoted the working of thought; a crease showed on her smooth brow.†   (source)
  • Peggotty, who was also looking back on the other side, seemed anything but satisfied; as the face she brought back in the cart denoted.†   (source)
  • We were, as we believed, many hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in reality, so distant as we had supposed.†   (source)
  • They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal.†   (source)
  • Andrea seized the certificate of his father's marriage and his own baptismal register, and after having opened them with all the eagerness which might be expected under the circumstances, he read them with a facility which proved that he was accustomed to similar documents, and with an expression which plainly denoted an unusual interest in the contents.†   (source)
  • He was young, healthful, and manly in appearance; and he wore a dress which, while it was less rigidly professional than that of the uncle, also denoted one accustomed to the water.†   (source)
  • The Doctor, whose observation of the bee-hunter had hitherto been exceedingly cursory, stared at the new speaker with a look which denoted something like recognition.†   (source)
  • Anon, there was an encounter, just at the door-step, betwixt two laboring men, as their rough voices denoted them to be.†   (source)
  • A clump of scrubby trees, such as alone grew on the peninsula, did not so much conceal the cottage from view, as seem to denote that here was some object which would fain have been, or at least ought to be, concealed.†   (source)
  • The houses on either side were high and large, but very old, and tenanted by people of the poorest class: as their neglected appearance would have sufficiently denoted, without the concurrent testimony afforded by the squalid looks of the few men and women who, with folded arms and bodies half doubled, occasionally skulked along.†   (source)
  • As soon as he began to acquire the words pretty freely, Nicholas showed him how he must come in with both hands spread out upon his stomach, and how he must occasionally rub it, in compliance with the established form by which people on the stage always denote that they want something to eat.†   (source)
  • I recollect once thinking there was something in his manner, uncouth as it was, that denoted a fall in life.†   (source)
  • You have, undoubtedly; and there are situations in which very high spirits would denote insensibility.†   (source)
  • I said this laughing: I perceived that Bessie's glance, though it expressed regard, did in no shape denote admiration.†   (source)
  • The expanded chest, full formed limbs, and grave countenance of this warrior, would denote that he had reached the vigor of his days, though no symptoms of decay appeared to have yet weakened his manhood.†   (source)
  • Farmer Boldwood had read the pantomime denoting that they were aware of his presence, and the perception was as too much light turned upon his new sensibility.†   (source)
  • His brown velvet jacket had become perennial; his hands had fixed themselves in his pockets; he shambled and stumbled and shuffled in a manner that denoted great physical helplessness.†   (source)
  • A few light vapours, leaping from rock to rock, denoted the place of hot springs; and streams flowed softly down to the common basin, gliding down the gentle slopes with a softer murmur.†   (source)
  • His physiognomy denoted great simplicity, a certain amount of brutality, and probable failure in the past to profit by rare educational advantages.†   (source)
  • The occasional rattle of applause upon the tables of the Snuggery, denoted the successful termination of a morsel of Harmony; or the responsive acceptance, by the united children, of some toast or sentiment offered to them by their Father.†   (source)
  • The back of Elizabeth's head remained still, and her shoulders did not denote even the movements of breathing.†   (source)
  • While the men and lads were building the pile, a change took place in the mass of shade which denoted the distant landscape.†   (source)
  • Under the old French monarchy, to denote by a single expression a low-spirited contemptible fellow, it was usual to say that he had the "soul of a lackey"; the term was enough to convey all that was intended.†   (source)
  • He looked at her with a smile, and a little motion of the head, which expressed, "Come to me, I have something to say;" and the unaffected, easy kindness of manner which denoted the feelings of an older acquaintance than he really was, strongly enforced the invitation.†   (source)
  • The Americans never use the word "peasant," because they have no idea of the peculiar class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved amongst them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.†   (source)
  • He had left behind him five children and a wife; and in nineteen years he had seen five funerals issue, and none of them humble enough in pomp to denote a servant.†   (source)
  • On this point she was soon satisfied; and two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.†   (source)
  • "Your servant, Sir," said Joe, "which I hope as you and Pip"—here his eye fell on the Avenger, who was putting some toast on table, and so plainly denoted an intention to make that young gentleman one of the family, that I frowned it down and confused him more— "I meantersay, you two gentlemen,—which I hope as you get your elths in this close spot?†   (source)
  • A more than ordinary redness in the region of the young gentleman's nose, and a kind of fixed wink in his right eye, denoted that he was in a slight degree intoxicated; these symptoms were confirmed by the intense relish with which he took his oysters, for which nothing but a strong appreciation of their cooling properties, in cases of internal fever, could have sufficiently accounted.†   (source)
  • "One word," he was saying, as the crackling of paper denoted that Henchard was unfolding yet another sheet.†   (source)
  • And with that the pump clanged like fifty fire-engines; the men tossed their hats off to it, and ere long that peculiar gasping of the lungs was heard which denotes the fullest tension of life's utmost energies.†   (source)
  • New Switzerland for ever!' shouted the whole company enthusiastically, as they raised their glasses, and made them touch with a musical ring, which so expressively denotes a joyful unanimity of sentiment.†   (source)
  • A single track, barely wide enough to receive the sleigh, * denoted the route of the highway, and this was sunk nearly two feet below the surrounding surface.†   (source)
  • He looked rapidly from the master of the house to the mistress; a movement that seemed to denote a reluctance to interrupt or even a perception of ominous conditions.†   (source)
  • He looked up at the sound of her pit-pat, and his changed appearance sufficiently denoted to her the depth and strength of the feelings paralyzed by her letter.†   (source)
  • Straining his powers of listening to the utmost, he listened for any sound that might denote suspicion or alarm.†   (source)
  • Beyond this fact of truth and real force, the word denotes good-nature and benevolence: manhood first, and then gentleness.†   (source)
  • But when it came to be understood, on the highest professional authority, that the event was a natural, and—except for some unimportant particulars, denoting a slight idiosyncrasy—by no means an unusual form of death, the public, with its customary alacrity, proceeded to forget that he had ever lived.†   (source)
  • No one can entertain a lower opinion of the writer of an anonymous letter, in ordinary matters, than myself; the very act denotes cowardice, meanness, and baseness; and it usually is a token of falsehood, as well as of other vices.†   (source)
  • Then a low, but increasing murmur, ran through the multitude, and finally swelled into sounds that denoted a lively opposition in the sentiments of the spectators.†   (source)
  • I waited a few moments, expecting he would go on with the subject first broached: but he seemed to have entered another train of reflection: his look denoted abstraction from me and my business.†   (source)
  • At certain moments the ship encountered ice at a depth of 900 meters, denoting a thickness of 1,200 meters, of which 300 meters rose above the level of the ocean.†   (source)
  • The last number denoted his betrothed, whom, with the poetry and truth of nature, he described by laying his hand on his own heart.†   (source)
  • To have lost the godlike conceit that we may do what we will, and not to have acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows a grandeur of temper which cannot be objected to in the abstract, for it denotes a mind that, though disappointed, forswears compromise.†   (source)
  • Honor becomes fantastical in proportion to the peculiarity of the wants which it denotes, and the paucity of the men by whom those wants are felt; and it is because it denotes wants of this kind that its influence is great.†   (source)
  • …good understanding to the efforts of his aunt, who did call on him in her return through London, and there relate her journey to Longbourn, its motive, and the substance of her conversation with Elizabeth; dwelling emphatically on every expression of the latter which, in her ladyship's apprehension, peculiarly denoted her perverseness and assurance; in the belief that such a relation must assist her endeavours to obtain that promise from her nephew which she had refused to give.†   (source)
  • Still nothing else transpired for hours, that might denote the existence of any sudden, or violent, revolution in the purposes or feelings of Ishmael.†   (source)
  • 'Patience!' said Ralph, clutching him still tighter and eyeing him with a sidelong look, so fixed and eager as sufficiently to denote that he had some hidden purpose in what he was about to say.†   (source)
  • His preoccupied face so clearly denoted the pursuit in which he was engaged, that every cripple at the post-houses, not blind, who shoved his little battered tin-box in at the carriage window for Charity in the name of Heaven, Charity in the name of our Lady, Charity in the name of all the Saints, knew as well what work he was at, as their countryman Le Brun could have known it himself, though he had made that English traveller the subject of a special physiognomical treatise.†   (source)
  • It denoted the advance of the procession of magistrates and citizens on its way towards the meeting-house: where, in compliance with a custom thus early established, and ever since observed, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale was to deliver an Election Sermon.†   (source)
  • The district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man.†   (source)
  • The manner of the Quartermaster had that air of supererogatory courtesy about it which almost invariably denotes artifice; for, while physiognomy and phrenology are but lame sciences at the best, and perhaps lead to as many false as right conclusions, we hold that there is no more infallible evidence of insincerity of purpose, short of overt acts, than a face that smiles when there is no occasion, and the tongue that is out of measure smooth.†   (source)
  • "Oh! no, the meeting is certainly to-day," was the abrupt answer, which denoted the impossibility of any blunder on Mrs. Elton's side.†   (source)
  • When ranks are commingled and privileges abolished, the men of whom a nation is composed being once more equal and alike, their interests and wants become identical, and all the peculiar notions which each caste styled honor successively disappear: the notion of honor no longer proceeds from any other source than the wants peculiar to the nation at large, and it denotes the individual character of that nation to the world.†   (source)
  • The quivering of the partition to its core presented denoted that Donald Farfrae had again rung his bell, no doubt to have his supper removed; for humming a tune, and walking up and down, he seemed to be attracted by the lively bursts of conversation and melody from the general company below.†   (source)
  • Their presence was denoted by sounds as of a congregation praying humbly, produced by their rubbing against each other in the slow wind.†   (source)
  • To the naturalist's eye, its gracefully rounded crown, formed of big multilobed leaves, was enough to denote the artocarpus that has been so successfully transplanted to the Mascarene Islands east of Madagascar.†   (source)
  • Gradually all noises diminished, until the suppressed cough denoted that it was necessary to avoid singularity, and the most pro found stillness pervaded the apartment.†   (source)
  • The deeper tones of one who spoke as having authority were next heard, amid a silence that denoted the respect with which his orders, or rather advice, was received.†   (source)
  • But a deluge of rain was still falling, though with that violence which generally denotes the near cessation of a storm.†   (source)
  • "But this second letter," said Athos, "you forget that; it appears to me, however, that the seal denotes that it deserves to be opened.†   (source)
  • I recognised his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty; his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler; his grim mouth, chin, and jaw — yes, all three were very grim, and no mistake.†   (source)
  • And now night drooped slowly upon the wide watery levels in front; and at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.†   (source)
  • With these words the friendly creature took his companion's arm and led him away, turning half round as he did so, and bestowing a wink and a contemptuous smile on Messrs Pyke and Pluck, who, cramming their handkerchiefs into their mouths to denote their silent enjoyment of the whole proceedings, followed their patron and his victim at a little distance.†   (source)
  • The professional gentleman thus familiarly pointed out, had been all the time standing near them, with nothing specific visible, to denote his gentlemanly rank on board.†   (source)
  • A wider circuit than common denoted that the messenger had passed through the air at no great distance from the bird, though it missed its object.†   (source)
  • The French alphabet, written out with the same numerical values as the Hebrew, in which the first nine letters denote units and the others tens, will have the following significance: a b c d e f g h i k 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 l m n o p q r s 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 t u v w x y 100 110 120 130 140 150 z 160 Writing the words L'Empereur Napoleon in numbers, it appears that the sum of them is 666, and that Napoleon was therefore the beast foretold in the Apocalypse.†   (source)
  • The eyes of Doctor Battius (for we deem it decorous to give the good man the appellation he most preferred) sufficiently denoted the satisfaction with which he listened to this proposal.†   (source)
  • And even if intended to be cancelled, as might possibly be supposed to be denoted by these marks of fire, it is NOT cancelled.†   (source)
  • VI Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete All that evening smart sounds denoting an active packing up came from Yeobright's room to the ears of his mother downstairs.†   (source)
  • Brother Cap, can you recollect no movement of this unfortunate young man, in the way of his calling, that would seem to denote treachery?†   (source)
  • The sinews and muscles, which had once denoted great strength, though shrunken, were still visible; and his whole figure had attained an appearance of induration, which, if it were not for the well known frailty of humanity, would have seemed to bid defiance to the further approaches of decay.†   (source)
  • At last Mr Squeers began to thrust his head out of the widow every half-minute, and to bawl a variety of directions to the coachman; and after passing, with some difficulty, through several mean streets which the appearance of the houses and the bad state of the road denoted to have been recently built, Mr Squeers suddenly tugged at the check string with all his might, and cried, 'Stop!'†   (source)
  • As for marine mammals, on passing by the mouth of the Adriatic Sea, I thought I recognized two or three sperm whales equipped with the single dorsal fin denoting the genus Physeter, some pilot whales from the genus Globicephalus exclusive to the Mediterranean, the forepart of the head striped with small distinct lines, and also a dozen seals with white bellies and black coats, known by the name monk seals and just as solemn as if they were three–meter Dominicans.†   (source)
  • He gazed at the most appalling sight with eyes and muscles that knew not how to waver, but with execrations so bitter and deep as to denote how much he denounced the crime of his enemies.†   (source)
  • No success rewarded this little blockade, however, neither appearance nor sound denoting the passage of the canoe.†   (source)
  • And at the girdling line of the horizon, a soft and tremulous motion—most seen here at the Equator—denoted the fond, throbbing trust, the loving alarms, with which the poor bride gave her bosom away.†   (source)
  • The vapor from their nostrils was seen to issue like smoke; and every object in the view, as well as every arrangement of the travellers, denoted the depth of a winter in the mountains.†   (source)
  • My uncle had uplifted his long arms to the vault which was our sky; his mouth gaping wide, his eyes flashing behind his shining spectacles, his head balancing with an up-and-down motion, his whole attitude denoted unlimited astonishment.†   (source)
  • He was of pale complexion, with clear blue eyes, rather deeply set; his mouth, fine and well cut, remained motionless in its correct lines; his chin, strongly marked, denoted that strength of will which in the ordinary Britannic type denotes mostly nothing but obstinacy; a brow a little receding, as is proper for poets, enthusiasts, and soldiers, was scarcely shaded by short thin hair which, like the beard which covered the lower part of his face, was of a beautiful deep chestnut…†   (source)
  • Master and man are at length disturbed by footsteps in the passage, where they make an unusual sound, denoting the arrival of unusual company.†   (source)
  • It was not merely in fine words or hyperbolical compliment that he paid his duty; nothing could be more proper or pleasing than his whole manner to her—nothing could more agreeably denote his wish of considering her as a friend and securing her affection.†   (source)
  • Feudal aristocracy existed by war and for war; its power had been founded by arms, and by arms that power was maintained; it therefore required nothing more than military courage, and that quality was naturally exalted above all others; whatever denoted it, even at the expense of reason and humanity, was therefore approved and frequently enjoined by the manners of the time.†   (source)
  • Amid the rustles which denoted her to be undressing in the darkness other heavy breaths frequently came; and the same kind of shudder occasionally moved through her when, ten minutes later, she lay on her bed asleep.†   (source)
  • "Dew-of-June," he said solemnly, but with an earnestness which denoted the strength of his sympathy, "you are not alone in your sorrow.†   (source)
  • Soon after, two cries in quick succession on each side of us denoted that the other boats had got fast; but hardly were they overheard, when with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said: "Stand up!" and Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprang to his feet.†   (source)
  • This was all very promising; and, but for such an unfortunate fancy for having his hair cut, there was nothing to denote him unworthy of the distinguished honour which her imagination had given him; the honour, if not of being really in love with her, of being at least very near it, and saved only by her own indifference—(for still her resolution held of never marrying)—the honour, in short, of being marked out for her by all their joint acquaintance.†   (source)
  • …are the foremost persons in society, without contestation and without effort—when they are constantly engaged on large objects, leaving the more minute details to others—and when they live in the enjoyment of wealth which they did not amass and which they do not fear to lose, it may be supposed that they feel a kind of haughty disdain of the petty interests and practical cares of life, and that their thoughts assume a natural greatness, which their language and their manners denote.†   (source)
  • His nose and chin were sharp and prominent, his jaws had fallen inwards from loss of teeth, his face was shrivelled and yellow, save where the cheeks were streaked with the colour of a dry winter apple; and where his beard had been, there lingered yet a few grey tufts which seemed, like the ragged eyebrows, to denote the badness of the soil from which they sprung.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, Duncan saw Alice to a place of safety, and then sought the scout, with a countenance that denoted how eagerly he also panted for the approaching contest.†   (source)
  • Abandoning, therefore, all the reserve and dignity of his manner, under the conscious helplessness of ignorance, he turned to the old man, and stretching forth his arms, as if to denote how much he lay at his mercy, he said— "Let my father look at me.†   (source)
  • Without hesitation, I identified his dominant qualities—self–confidence, since his head reared like a nobleman's above the arc formed by the lines of his shoulders, and his black eyes gazed with icy assurance; calmness, since his skin, pale rather than ruddy, indicated tranquility of blood; energy, shown by the swiftly knitting muscles of his brow; and finally courage, since his deep breathing denoted tremendous reserves of vitality.†   (source)
  • The ungovernable feeling that caused the violence of the youth had passed away, and he stood gazing after the retiring figure of Marmaduke, with a vacancy in his eye that denoted the absence of his mind.†   (source)
  • The young man was more pale than usual, and his eyes, reddened by want of sleep, denoted that he had passed a feverish night.†   (source)
  • "My brother has had a long run on the hills, and a pleasant sail on the water," returned Rivenoak more mildly, smiling, at the same time, in a way that his listener knew denoted pacific intentions.†   (source)
  • Lastly, on January 12, 1842, with his ships, the Erebus and the Terror, the Englishman Sir James Clark Ross found Victoria Land in latitude 70° 56' and longitude 171° 7' east; on the 23rd of that same month, he reached the 74th parallel, a position denoting the Farthest South attained until then; on the 27th he lay at 76° 8'; on the 28th at 77° 32'; on February 2 at 78° 4'; and late in 1842 he returned to 71° but couldn't get beyond it.†   (source)
  • But, it would have been a stranger contrast still, to have read the hearts that were beating side by side; to have laid bare the gentle innocence of the one, and the rugged villainy of the other; to have hung upon the guileless thoughts of the affectionate girl, and been amazed that, among all the wily plots and calculations of the old man, there should not be one word or figure denoting thought of death or of the grave.†   (source)
  • The young woman continued to advance; and in addition to the lightness of her step, which had betrayed her, she emitted a little cough which denoted a sweet voice.†   (source)
  • By the frequency with which the Indians described the marks of a forest trial, it was evident they urged a pursuit by land, while the repeated sweep of Hawkeye's arm toward the Horican denoted that he was for a passage across its waters.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, his reception was such as to denote not only gratification, but a pleasure, mingled with a little disappointment at his not having made his appearance some days sooner.†   (source)
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