1 A vast shadow, in which could be dimly traced portions of a masculine contour, blotted half the ceiling.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 2 High above this to the right, and much nearer thitherward than the Quiet Woman Inn, the blurred contour of Rainbarrow obstructed the sky.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 3 Thereupon the contour of a man became dimly visible against the low-reaching sky over the valley, beyond the outer margin of the pool.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 4 In the minor valleys, between the hillocks which diversified the contour of the vale, the fresh young ferns were luxuriantly growing up, ultimately to reach a height of five or six feet.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 5 Soon I had traced on the paper a broad and prominent forehead and a square lower outline of visage: that contour gave me pleasure; my fingers proceeded actively to fill it with features.
6 The shape standing before me had never crossed my eyes within the precincts of Thornfield Hall before; the height, the contour were new to me.
7 Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour; but they are wretchedly engraved.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 8 His well-formed aquiline nose, straight thin lips, and the admirable contour of his finely-formed limbs, impressed the whole company instantly with the idea of something uncommon.
9 He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.
10 The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 11 Now the jagged leaf at the corner suggested, by its contours, Europe.
12 The brilliant lights and sooty shades which struggled upon the skin and clothes of the persons standing round caused their lineaments and general contours to be drawn with Dureresque vigour and dash.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 13 The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed.
14 Lastly, his cheeks and chin were of such neat clean-shavenness that no one but a blind man could have failed to admire their rounded contours.
15 Sprawling in the foreground of the picture was a swarthy warrior in a helmet, specially conspicuous for his rotund contours.