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easily noticed — typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual
- He thought, or rather felt, that Tom had an aversion to looking at him; every one, almost, disliked looking at him; and his deformity was more conspicuous when he walked.2.3 -- Book 2 Chapter 3 -- The New Schoolfellow (18% in)
- "Ay, ay, Bessy, never brew wi' bad malt upo' Michael-masday, else you'll have a poor tap," said Mr. Tulliver, winking and smiling at Mr. Riley, with the natural pride of a man who has a buxom wife conspicuously his inferior in intellect.1.3 -- Book 1 Chapter 3 -- Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning…. (72% in)
- Certainly the contrast between the cousins was conspicuous, and to superficial eyes was very much to the disadvantage of Maggie though a connoisseur might have seen "points" in her which had a higher promise for maturity than Lucy's natty completeness.1.7 -- Book 1 Chapter 7 -- Enter the Aunts and Uncles (36% in)
- Mr. Poulter, it appeared, had been a conspicuous figure at Talavera, and had contributed not a little to the peculiar terror with which his regiment of infantry was regarded by the enemy.2.4 -- Book 2 Chapter 4 -- "The Young Idea" (53% in)
- And Mr. Tulliver, you perceive, though nothing more than a superior miller and maltster, was as proud and obstinate as if he had been a very lofty personage, in whom such dispositions might be a source of that conspicuous, far-echoing tragedy, which sweeps the stage in regal robes, and makes the dullest chronicler sublime.3.1 -- Book 3 Chapter 1 -- What Had Happened at Home (33% in)
- The possession of a wife conspicuously one's inferior in intellect is, like other high privileges, attended with a few inconveniences, and, among the rest, with the occasional necessity for using a little deception.3.1 -- Book 3 Chapter 1 -- What Had Happened at Home (50% in)
- A conspicuous quality in the Dodson character was its genuineness; its vices and virtues alike were phases of a proud honest egoism, which had a hearty dislike to whatever made against its own credit and interest, and would be frankly hard of speech to inconvenient "kin," but would never forsake or ignore them,—would not let them want bread, but only require them to eat it with bitter herbs.4.1 -- Book 4 Chapter 1 -- A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet (78% in)
- Tom drew to the corner of the table near his father when the tin box was set down and opened, and the red evening light falling on them made conspicuous the worn, sour gloom of the dark-eyed father and the suppressed joy in the face of the fair-complexioned son.5.6 -- Book 5 Chapter 6 -- The Hard-Won Triumph (32% in)
- But it soon appeared that the gentlemen's dressing-gowns, which were among her commodities, were objects of such general attention and inquiry, and excited so troublesome a curiosity as to their lining and comparative merits, together with a determination to test them by trying on, as to make her post a very conspicuous one.6.9 -- Book 6 Chapter 9 -- Charity in Full-Dress (13% in)
- Not that anger, on account of spurned beauty can dwell in the celestial breasts of charitable ladies, but rather that the errors of persons who have once been much admired necessarily take a deeper tinge from the mere force of contrast; and also, that to-day Maggie's conspicuous position, for the first time, made evident certain characteristics which were subsequently felt to have an explanatory bearing.6.9 -- Book 6 Chapter 9 -- Charity in Full-Dress (16% in)
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