1 He hauled from his pockets a heavy gold watch with dangling seals, a small miniature of the long dead Mrs. Wilkes and a pair of massive cuff buttons.
2 She hurried back into her room and hastily gathered from their hiding place the bracelets, brooch, miniature and cup she had found on the dead Yankee.
3 Shockingly out of place was a miniature of the Dancing Bacchante.
4 But the next time you have a chance, watch him; and you will then see the great Sperm whale himself in miniature.
5 I confess, that since Jonah, few whalemen have penetrated very far beneath the skin of the adult whale; nevertheless, I have been blessed with an opportunity to dissect him in miniature.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides. 6 Those through which Jurgis and Ona were walking resembled streets less than they did a miniature topographical map.
7 It was a little state, the union, a miniature republic; its affairs were every man's affairs, and every man had a real say about them.
8 Of course Jurgis had made his home a miniature fertilizer mill a minute after entering.
9 So rapid was the progress of the light vessels, that the lake curled in their front, in miniature waves, and their motion became undulating by its own velocity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 10 When they were arranging him for his last rest, they found upon his bosom a small, plain miniature case, opening with a spring.
11 It was the miniature of a noble and beautiful female face; and on the reverse, under a crystal, a lock of dark hair.
12 She told me, that that same evening William had teased her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother.
13 Below this picture was a miniature of William; and my tears flowed when I looked upon it.
14 Then taking a small miniature from her pocket, she added, "To prevent the possibility of mistake, be so good as to look at this face."
15 There was a reasonably good path now, mostly on the edge of the river, with a divergence here and there where a dike came, with a miniature windmill on it and a muddy sluice-gate.