1 Beneath this atmospheric waving and curling, and partially beneath a thin layer of water, also, the whales were swimming.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 2 Neither was it, as with our neighbors, the English, an atmospheric influence which darkened his countenance; for the sadness generally became more intense toward the fine season of the year.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS 3 The effect produced on Frome was rather of a complete absence of atmosphere, as though nothing less tenuous than ether intervened between the white earth under his feet and the metallic dome overhead.
4 The atmosphere had somehow changed.
5 There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her.
6 If Charles had inherited any of the qualities of the stern, fearless, hot-tempered soldier who had been his father, they had been obliterated in childhood by the ladylike atmosphere in which he had been reared.
7 When Scarlett first opened the door the thick atmosphere of the room, with all windows closed and the air reeking with sick-room odors, medicine smells and stinking grease, almost made her faint.
8 He came to call every night, for the atmosphere of Pitty's house was pleasant and soothing.
9 In this atmosphere, as nerve straining as watching a slow fuse burn toward a barrel of gunpowder, Scarlett came rapidly back to strength.
10 They clung close to Prissy, for even to their childish minds there was something frightening in the cold, impersonal atmosphere between their mother and their stepfather.
11 Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
12 There was nothing new to Lily in these tokens of a studied luxury; but, though they formed a part of her atmosphere, she never lost her sensitiveness to their charm.
13 The surrounding atmosphere was propitious to this scheme of courtship.
14 All this was in the natural order of things, and the orchid basking in its artificially created atmosphere could round the delicate curves of its petals undisturbed by the ice on the panes.
15 She was startled to find how the atmosphere of her old life enveloped her.