Citations:appearances

English citations of appearances

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes.

  I was at first unable to solve these questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me many appearances which were at first enigmatic.

  Soon after, however, Felix approached with another man; I was surprised, as I knew that he had not quitted the cottage that morning, and waited anxiously to discover from his discourse the meaning of these unusual appearances.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  Without venturing for Scrooge quite as hardily as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much.

• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality.