The note of dread in the shouting voice, the practical truth of these words, heard years ago from a man I did not like, have stamped its
peculiar character on that gale.
I tell you she's
peculiar. I don't like it; I feel a little worried over it."
The
peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.
As if those who are to rule were to have an education
peculiar to themselves.
Waterhouse; but as it belongs to the old-world division of the family, and as this island has been frequented by ships for the last hundred and fifty years, I can hardly doubt that this rat is merely a variety produced by the new and
peculiar climate, food, and soil, to which it has been subjected.
Thus, he would give a more instructive account of an individual man by stating that he was man than by stating that he was animal, for the former description is
peculiar to the individual in a greater degree, while the latter is too general.
But it by no means follows, that, because in an island nearly all the species of one class are
peculiar, those of another class, or of another section of the same class, are
peculiar; and this difference seems to depend on the species which do not become modified having immigrated with facility and in a body, so that their mutual relations have not been much disturbed.
Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man), the
peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.
The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his
peculiar district of literature, have been termed L'Enfant G t of success.
In my desk you will find a crimson candle, which has been blessed by the High Priest and has a
peculiar mystical significance.
The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is
peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not.
His emotion on entering the room, in seeing her altered looks, and in receiving the pale hand which she immediately held out to him, was such, as, in Elinor's conjecture, must arise from something more than his affection for Marianne, or the consciousness of its being known to others; and she soon discovered in his melancholy eye and varying complexion as he looked at her sister, the probable recurrence of many past scenes of misery to his mind, brought back by that resemblance between Marianne and Eliza already acknowledged, and now strengthened by the hollow eye, the sickly skin, the posture of reclining weakness, and the warm acknowledgment of
peculiar obligation.