My second was to bring him a book, which, knowing his mother's
particularity, I had carefully selected, and which I submitted for her approbation before presenting it to him.
She walked eagerly on as she spoke; and Elinor, to screen Marianne from
particularity, as she felt almost certain of its not being Willoughby, quickened her pace and kept up with her.
In that house Elizabeth must be first; and she was in the habit of such general observance as "Miss Elliot," that any
particularity of attention seemed almost impossible.
Tom behaved to Sophia with no
particularity, unless perhaps by showing her a higher respect than he paid to any other.
The chief objection to them is, that the diligent narrator may lack space, or (what is often the same thing) may not be able to think of them with any degree of
particularity, though he may have a philosophical confidence that if known they would be illustrative.
But as I am going to tell the story with some
particularity, and perhaps some gusto, you will see why who read.
Mulcahy shivered when the former spoke of the knife as an intimate acquaintance, or the latter dwelt with loving
particularity on the fate of those who, wounded and helpless, had been overlooked by the ambulances, and had fallen into the hands of the Afghan women-folk.
Generality and
particularity are a matter of degree.
While I, to blind the world to our engagement, was behaving one hour with objectionable
particularity to another woman, was she to be consenting the next to a proposal which might have made every previous caution useless?Had we been met walking together between Donwell and Highbury, the truth must have been suspected.
The two girls were more at a loss from being younger and in greater awe of their father, who addressed them on the occasion with rather an injudicious
particularity. But they were too much used to company and praise to have anything like natural shyness; and their confidence increasing from their cousin's total want of it, they were soon able to take a full survey of her face and her frock in easy indifference.
It had a directness, an emphasis, a
particularity, that showed a backbone of solid meaning within the mystery of his expression."
The man said we were now on the Feil-Stutz, above the Schwegmatt--information which I was glad to get, since it gave us our position to a degree of
particularity which we had not been accustomed to for a day or so.