1 It might be partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 2 He had taken up the poker again; without which, I doubt if he could have proceeded in his demonstration.
3 My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone.
4 I kept an eye on Orlick after that night, and, whenever circumstances were favorable to his dancing at Biddy, got before him to obscure that demonstration.
5 I thanked her, without making any demonstration of joy, lest it should induce her to withdraw her assent.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 6 I should have protested against this unnecessary demonstration in my honour, but that I saw Peggotty, on the opposite side of the bed, extremely anxious I should not.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 7 The cat, profiting by this unusual demonstration, tried to effect an unnoticed retreat, and in doing so backed into the pickle-dish, which fell to the floor with a crash.
8 She had passed beyond the phase of well-bred reciprocity, in which every demonstration must be scrupulously proportioned to the emotion it elicits, and generosity of feeling is the only ostentation condemned.
9 And I certainly don't see any need of a farm-bureau or this domestic science demonstration you talk about.
10 He had grown to regard himself merely as a part of a vast blue demonstration.
11 Now, with the newborn question in his mind, he was compelled to sink back into his old place as part of a blue demonstration.
12 The youth returned to his theory of a blue demonstration.
13 That was adding insult to injury, it was altogether too much, and making some wild demonstration with her hands, Jo vanished without a word.
14 The proposition, and demonstration, were fairly written on a thin wafer, with ink composed of a cephalic tincture.
15 Percy Phelps and his nurse looked at Holmes during this demonstration with surprise and a good deal of disappointment written upon their faces.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty