1 He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 2 Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 3 Literally this word means Fat-Cutter; usage, however, in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer.
4 One morning upon handling the pumps, according to daily usage, it was observed that she made more water in her hold than common.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 5 This improvement upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man than Stubb, in order to afford the imperilled harpooneer the strongest possible guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his monkey-rope holder.
6 His person was now protected by immemorial and sacred usage, until the tribe in council had deliberated and determined on his fate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 7 In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained.
8 She never battled with the public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it in requital for what she suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 9 But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her.
10 It is not really long, in weeks or months; but, in my usage and experience, it is a weary, weary while.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 11 If I once shook the foundations of the sacred confidence and usage, in virtue of which it was given to me, it was lost, and could never be recovered.
12 Such usage shalt thou have as was once thought good enough for a noble Saxon maiden.
13 She could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to ill usage between him and his friend.
14 Harsh feelings produce harsh usage, and this by reaction quenches the sentiments that gave it birth.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 15 From her workbasket in the window-seat the woman took a paper of pins, of the old long and yellow sort, whose heads were disposed to come off at their first usage.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November