1 Scarlett wanted to respect and adore her mother like an idol and to rumple her hair and tease her too.
2 She saw that she had dressed her idol with attributes of her own making.
3 The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel for his Congo idol.
4 At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
5 He then went about his evening prayers, took out his idol, and removed the paper fireboard.
6 And an idol, indeed, it is; or, rather, in old times, its likeness was.
7 Turning as from a fallen idol, she made other discoveries which rapidly dispelled her romantic illusions.
8 Want of exercise robs them of cheerfulness, and too much devotion to that idol of American women, the teapot, makes them feel as if they were all nerve and no muscle.
9 I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.
10 He might have had a monomania on the subject of his departed idol; but on every other point his wits were as sound as mine.
11 To clutch that idol, treachery.
12 He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and, with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol.
13 I suppose it did not occur to him Mr. Kurtz was no idol of mine.
14 Sergius is the hero of the hour, the idol of the regiment.
15 And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE