1 These tales and rumours took substance and shape, and were corroborated and re-corroborated, until they resolved themselves into a definite name.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET 2 It was a daylight bird, chuckling over the substance and succulence of the day, over worms, snails, grit, even in sleep.
3 The floor was composed of earth mixed with lime, trodden into a hard substance, such as is often employed in flooring our modern barns.
4 No substance to her or anything.
5 Her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque, so much insignificant substance.
6 This, as well as I understand, is to be the substance of my information.
7 Their substance was great anger at the folly of each.
8 I have told you the substance of all that she said.
9 Mr. Bolter put his hand to his neckerchief, as if he felt it inconveniently tight; and murmured an assent, qualified in tone but not in substance.
10 This is a painful task,' said he, 'but these declarations, which have been signed in London before many gentlemen, must be in substance repeated here.
11 The groundwork of the face was hopefulness; but over it now I ay like a foreign substance a film of anxiety and grief.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road 12 He was permeated with its scenes, with its substance, and with its odours.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment 13 The superstratum of timidity which often overlies those who are daring and defiant at heart had been passed through, and the mettlesome substance of the woman was reached.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning 14 As the wax dropped into the fire a long flame arose from the spot, and curling its tongue round the figure ate still further into its substance.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 15 There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance.