The older I got, the greater my success, the more money I earned, the wider was the command of the world that became mine and the more
prominently did John Barleycorn bulk in my life.
At no time during his career did Wingrave appear before the public more
prominently than during the next few months.
My fertile pencil has delineated the characters I met with, at that period of my life, with a force and distinctness which my pen cannot hope to rival--has portrayed them all more or less
prominently, with the one solitary exception of a prisoner called Gentleman Jones.
These were genuine wooden and iron implements, and were
prominently disposed round about the figure: a bundle of nails; the hammer to drive them; the sponge; the reed that supported it; the cup of vinegar; the ladder for the ascent of the cross; the spear that pierced the Saviour's side.
The old servant was worn and wasted; her gown hung loose on her angular body; the big bones of her face stood out, more
prominently than ever.
The other part of the nimbus remained brilliant, and in the midst of this general brilliancy Tycho shone
prominently like a sun.
Leach, his bandaged arm
prominently to the fore, begged me to leave a few remnants of the cook for him; and Wolf Larsen paused once or twice at the break of the poop to glance curiously at what must have been to him a stirring and crawling of the yeasty thing he knew as life.
There was yet another individual whose residence under that roof was, it is true, only an intermittent one, but whose presence at the time of the strange happenings which will now be narrated brought his name
prominently before the public.
On the other hand, nothing tortured her more intolerably than when this recognition was too
prominently expressed.
When a past event is somewhat
prominently recorded in the palm, I can generally detect that, but minor ones often escape me--not always, of course, but often-- but I haven't much confidence in myself when it comes to reading the future.
At first he would not see the masterpiece; other more
prominently displayed works would catch his eye.
I think it cannot be too
prominently kept before the whole establishment.