1 Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides. 2 The tall forewoman, a pinched perpendicular figure, dropped the condemned structure of wire and net on the table at Lily's side, and passed on to the next figure in the line.
3 It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.
4 But to comprehend it aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun. 5 But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him regular lungs, like a human being's, the whale can only live by inhaling the disengaged air in the open atmosphere.
6 This triune structure, as much as anything else, imparts power to the tail.
7 So, after all, there was a crack in the fine structure of Jurgis' faith in things as they are.
8 All the fair structure of their hopes came crashing about their ears.
9 A faint light glimmered through its cracks, however, and announced that, notwithstanding its imperfect structure, it was not without a tenant.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 10 The machinery had still to be installed, and Whymper was negotiating the purchase of it, but the structure was completed.
11 The form was so much like an organic part of the entire motionless structure that to see it move would have impressed the mind as a strange phenomenon.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 12 It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure, to what end built I could not determine.
13 While I was musing upon these things, my attention was attracted by a pretty little structure, like a well under a cupola.
14 Tom's whole structure of faith was shaken to its foundations.
15 The wall was built of rough stones, among which, to give strength to the structure, blocks of hewn stone were at intervals imbedded.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.