1 The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker. 2 There was, it is true, a limit to this tendency to uniformity.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 3 Another had such a very dirty old uniform that there was an unpleasant odour in his proximity.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 2: I 4 My uniform, perhaps, was tidy, but I could not go out to dinner in my uniform.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 2: III 5 He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I 6 Boris paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined his handsome face.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII 7 He had on a brand-new uniform showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I 8 Beside Kutuzov sat an Austrian general, in a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian black ones.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II 9 Suddenly on the road at the top of the high ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII 10 Having dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he had not worn for a long time, he went into Bilibin's study fresh, animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI 11 Rostov had not yet had time to get his uniform.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII 12 Without answering, Rostov shook the soldier's Cross of St. George fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, glanced at Berg with a smile.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII 13 The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone's attention.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII 14 Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII 15 An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat galloped up to Kutuzov and asked in the Emperor's name had the fourth column advanced into action.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV