"Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the
solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe.
He no longer seemed stout, though he still had the appearance of
solidity and strength hereditary in his family.
Once shake Sir Joseph's conviction of his commercial
solidity, and the marriage would be certainly deferred--if not absolutely broken off.
"'It was just after this adventure that we encountered a continent of immense extent and prodigious
solidity, but which, nevertheless, was supported entirely upon the back of a sky-blue cow that had no fewer than four hundred horns.'"
He was sprawling through
solidity. And ever the light grew brighter.
In his tragedies, 'Sejanus' and 'Catiline,' he excluded comic material; for the most part he kept scenes of death and violence off the stage; and he very carefully and slowly constructed plays which have nothing, indeed, of the poetic greatness of Sophocles or Euripides (rather a Jonsonese broad
solidity) but which move steadily to their climaxes and then on to the catastrophes in the compact classical manner.
To the elegance of a nervous and slight form had succeeded the
solidity of a rounded and muscular figure.
Now could the sun be brought in contact with this orbit, and had the latter
solidity to mark its circumference, it would be found that this circumference would include but a little more than half the surface of one side of the sun, the diameter of which orb is calculated to be 882,000 miles!
His arms were long, and his feet were planted with that
solidity which indicates a great pedestrian.
It was not only the bold simplification of the drawing which showed so rich and so singular a personality; it was not only the painting, though the flesh was painted with a passionate sensuality which had in it something miraculous; it was not only the
solidity, so that you felt extraordinarily the weight of the body; there was also a spirituality, troubling and new, which led the imagination along unsuspected ways, and suggested dim empty spaces, lit only by the eternal stars, where the soul, all naked, adventured fearful to the discovery of new mysteries.
Drawing the noose taut, he tested the
solidity of its hold.
The door must have been of prodigious
solidity. Listen as intently as I might, I failed to catch the articulate words (if any) which the voice was pronouncing, and I was equally at a loss to penetrate the cause which produced the rumbling and whistling sounds.