1 It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.
2 It was carelessly at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In III. THE RECOGNITION 3 It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 4 YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.
5 I cannot in any case agree with Keiss that my whole conception of the external world has been derived from perceptions.
6 He had left him, as often happens, only the external faculty of memory, that points out each step one has to take, one after the other.
7 The external relations of Alexey Alexandrovitch and his wife had remained unchanged.
8 Two men, her husband and her lover, were the two centers of her existence, and unaided by her external senses she was aware of their nearness.
9 Now I speak only of your external attitude.
10 He felt as though some external force were moving him.
11 She was religious, had never doubted the truths of religion, but his external unbelief did not affect her in the least.
12 In his future married life there could be, he was convinced, nothing of that sort; even the external forms, indeed, he fancied, must be utterly unlike the life of others in everything.
13 And in maintaining this attitude of external composure she was completely successful.
14 The counting house clerk, to conceal his confusion, busied himself settling the ladies, but Philip the coachman became sullen, and was bracing himself not to be overawed in future by this external superiority.
15 He remembered the club, the external details of its arrangement, but he had completely forgotten the impression it had made on him in old days.