There was a fine manliness
observable in almost every face; and in some a certain loftiness and sweetness that rebuked your belittling criticisms and stilled them.
If not specially observed, it was
observable that while a Frayser who was not the proud possessor of a sumptuous copy of the ancestral "poetical works" (printed at the family expense, and long ago withdrawn from an inhospitable market) was a rare Frayser indeed, there was an illogical indisposition to honor the great deceased in the person of his spiritual successor.
Not a single instance of natural deformity was
observable in all the throng attending the revels.
There is obviously an
observable fact called "knowing" such-and-such a thing; examinations are experiments for discovering such facts.
As the external difference between them is mainly
observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side; and as we may freely go from one to the other, by merely stepping across the deck: --where, I should like to know, will you obtain a better chance to study practical cetology than here?
It was
observable that the young gentlemen neither bowed to nor spoke with students whose caps differed in color from their own.
A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink; and it is often
observable, that the older a man gets, the more difficult it is to him to retain a believing conception of his own death.
Passing over the difference between the smallest and largest States, as Delaware, whose most numerous branch consists of twenty-one representatives, and Massachusetts, where it amounts to between three and four hundred, a very considerable difference is
observable among States nearly equal in population.
It was
observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over.
Tulliver's knowledge, was recalled with that sense of astonishing promise it displayed, which is
observable in all reminiscences of the childhood of great men.
And what was
observable in the furniture, was
observable in the Veneerings--the surface smelt a little too much of the workshop and was a trifle sticky.
With such a confederacy against her--with a knowledge so intimate of his goodness--with a conviction of his fond attachment to herself, which at last, though long after it was
observable to everybody else--burst on her--what could she do?