1 The newspapers were so muzzled that no public protest could be raised against the injustices or depredations of the military, and individual protests were silenced with jail sentences.
2 They had always been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual kinsmen might be.
3 Mrs. Gryce had a kind of impersonal benevolence: cases of individual need she regarded with suspicion, but she subscribed to Institutions when their annual reports showed an impressive surplus.
4 But Mr. Rosedale wanted, in the long run, a more individual environment.
5 She was soon the centre of a group which increased and renewed itself as the circulation became general, and the individual comments on her success were a delightful prolongation of the collective applause.
6 The towns remain unvaried, yet the individual faces alter like classes in college.
7 A sort of generic or Pantheistic vitality seemed to lurk in their very joints and bones, after what might be called the individual life had departed.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre. 8 It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness.
9 Pulling an oar in the Jeroboam's boat, was a man of a singular appearance, even in that wild whaling life where individual notabilities make up all totalities.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 10 Lord and master over all this scene, the captain stood erect on the ship's elevated quarter-deck, so that the whole rejoicing drama was full before him, and seemed merely contrived for his own individual diversion.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor. 11 Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution.
12 In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.
13 Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual.
14 The bank is the universal government credit-account, the ledger in which every individual's earnings and spendings are balanced.
15 The person of this individual was to the last degree ungainly, without being in any particular manner deformed.