1 He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
2 Seated, with her needlework or netting apparatus, at the window, she had a self-laudatory sense of correcting, by her ladylike deportment, the rude business aspect of the place.
3 Beside this deadly apparatus stood four black slaves, whose colour and African features, then so little known in England, appalled the multitude, who gazed on them as on demons employed about their own diabolical exercises.
4 This little affair,' said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, 'is only a model.
5 I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people.
6 Before going to Tuskegee I had expected to find there a building and all the necessary apparatus ready for me to begin teaching.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VII. 7 I soon learned, however, that this money could be used only for the payment of the salaries of the instructors, and that there was no provision for securing land, buildings, or apparatus.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VII. 8 There was practically no apparatus in the schoolhouses, except that occasionally there was a rough blackboard.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VII. 9 Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in solidity.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 10 The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been invented as yet, at that epoch.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F... 11 She returned; with her own hands cleared her knitting apparatus and a book or two from the table, to make room for the tray which Leah now brought, and then herself handed me the refreshments.
12 Henry saw this, and had removed all my apparatus from my view.
13 Kennicott had inherited it from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen-ray apparatus, and a small portable typewriter.
14 Turned off that valve at once and opened the spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus, invented and patented in all countries by Dante Alighieri.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 15 I will come to your place again; I've left all my apparatus there too.