1 That admiration led her to study Kennicott, to tear at the shroud of intimacy, to perceive the strangeness of the most familiar.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXIII 2 His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 28. Ahab. 3 Suddenly he came to a halt by the bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck. 4 And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 5 It was his mother's shroud, he thought; but Cassy had it, holding it up, and showing it to him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 6 He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 7 One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 8 Beneath the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the cold folds of the shroud.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT 9 They recognized the fact, that what they had before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU. 10 Make the shroud, and lay him in my box, and after the dinner party, we'll have a nice little funeral, said Jo, beginning to feel as if she had undertaken a good deal.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER ELEVEN 11 I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXV 12 My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 13 The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXVII. 14 With a mighty leap he rose to the surface of the sea, while the shot dragged down to the depths the sack that had so nearly become his shroud.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 15 For she rose up in the chair, in her shroud of a dress, and struck at the air as if she would as soon have struck herself against the wall and fallen dead.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter XXIX