1 A significant illustration of the fact, again and again repeated in this book, that the skeleton of the whale furnishes but little clue to the shape of his fully invested body.
2 Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities.
3 As they stood there now by Legree, they seemed an apt illustration of the fact that brutal men are lower even than animals.
4 Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.
5 "Merely to the illustration of your character," said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity.
6 Willoughby thought the same; and their behaviour at all times, was an illustration of their opinions.
7 Today all the significance of his book rose before him with special distinctness, and whole periods ranged themselves in his mind in illustration of his theories.
8 An illustration of something of this same feeling came under my observation afterward.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VI. 9 Only the ineffective word "hedgehog" illustrated his vision of Europe, bristling with guns, poised with planes.
10 I see your photograph, and Sir Clifford's, in the illustrated papers sometimes.
11 She was thrilled by her contact with a man of the upper class, this titled gentleman, this author who could write books and poems, and whose photograph appeared in the illustrated newspapers.
12 Leslie Winter was attached to Clifford, but personally did not entertain a great respect for him, because of the photographs in illustrated papers and the literature.
13 They treasure up every one of your pictures in the illustrated papers, and probably pray for you every night.
14 No case, however, in which Holmes was engaged has ever illustrated the value of his analytical methods so clearly or has impressed those who were associated with him so deeply.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 15 Cuzak had brought home with him a roll of illustrated Bohemian papers.