1 Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 2 It is because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 3 This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, embarrassed the symmetry of the administration.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 4 This inclined plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die of thirst, but the eye is gratified.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 5 There was a fecklessness, a lack of symmetry and order in the clouds, as they thinned and thickened.
6 But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face 7 She was a striking-looking woman, a little short and thick for symmetry, but with a beautiful olive complexion, large, dark, Italian eyes, and a wealth of deep black hair.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 8 There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.
9 Both are massive enough in all conscience; but there is a certain mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whale's which the Right Whale's sadly lacks.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View. 10 Pierre disturbed the symmetry by moving a chair for himself, and Berg and Vera immediately began their evening party, interrupting each other in their efforts to entertain their guest.