1 There is, I think, no chance that they will proceed to any actual violence against their prisoners.
2 In the actual sex-thrill within the body, the sisters nearly succumbed to the strange male power.
3 He was not in actual touch with anybody, save, traditionally, with Wragby, and, through the close bond of family defence, with Emma.
4 But there was no touch, no actual contact.
5 'I don't see a bit of connexion with the actual violets,' she said.
6 But the actual thing itself is nothing to them, a bit distasteful.
7 Their actual speed, heightened by some dread of the conclusion, made the road appear but half as long as on the day before.
8 This was not the repose of actual stagnation, but the apparent repose of incredible slowness.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 9 Although from the vale it appeared but as a wart on an Atlantean brow, its actual bulk was great.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 10 Its nearness was such that, notwithstanding its actual smallness, its glow infinitely transcended theirs.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 11 The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 12 On such occasions as this a thousand ideas pass through a highly charged woman's head; and they indicate themselves on her face; but the changes, though actual, are minute.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 13 But Thomasin's imagination being so actively engaged elsewhere, the night and the weather had for her no terror beyond that of their actual discomfort and difficulty.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 14 The reader will excuse me if I conceal the date or any other fact by which he might trace the actual occurrence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 15 I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop.