1 Trenor had married young, and since his marriage his intercourse with women had not taken the form of the sentimental small-talk which doubles upon itself like the paths in a maze.
2 For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
3 She had a way of turning them swiftly upon an object and holding them there as if lost in some inward maze of contemplation or thought.
4 This is quite irresistible, and every one in the room joins in, until the place becomes a maze of flying skirts and bodies quite dazzling to look upon.
5 There were those who made the tins for the canned meat; and their hands, too, were a maze of cuts, and each cut represented a chance for blood poisoning.
6 Well, let it be; through all the maze of trouble.
7 It was not until the two boys had scoured, with great rapidity, through a most intricate maze of narrow streets and courts, that they ventured to halt beneath a low and dark archway.
8 A clear line of difference divided like a tangible fence her experience within this maze of motion from her experience without it.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 9 A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars' heads of the Baskervilles.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 10 He had wandered into a maze of narrow and dirty streets.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 11 That seems to be a maze out of which we cannot escape.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 12 She felt her cheek pale and cold and, out of a maze of distress, she prayed to God to direct her, to show her what was her duty.
13 None the less does Aeneas thread the circling maze to meet him, and tracks his man, and with loud cry cries on him through the scattered ranks.
14 The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
15 Afterward they went outside, wandering about among the mazes of buildings in which was done the work auxiliary to this great industry.