1 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.
2 From the cliffs across the river Carol and Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capitol.
3 The fireplace was filled with a dome of ice when we got there, but we chopped it out, and jammed the thing full of pine-boughs.
4 Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here's one.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter. 5 But this was the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it.
6 Beneath a splendid dome were men of all nations, moving to and fro, over the marble pave.
7 The city of Paris was having the dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 8 A squadron of magnificent body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S 9 He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from Bombarda's windows.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE 10 The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was white.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 11 These gates, therefore, swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared behind the dome of the Invalides.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 12 It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpetriere.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES 13 Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dome overlooked the valley.
14 Observe how fast we move along and how the clouds, which sometimes obscure and sometimes rise above the dome of Mont Blanc, render this scene of beauty still more interesting.
15 The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL