As to Henry C-, the next in age and wisdom of our band, he had broken loose from the unyielding rigidity of his family,
solidly rooted, if I remember rightly, in a well-to-do London suburb.
It was at this juncture that Clara Belle and Susan Simpson consulted Rebecca, who threw herself
solidly and wholeheartedly into the enterprise, promising her help and that of Emma Jane Perkins.
"And his manners, the Colonel's manners are not only more pleasing to me than Willoughby's ever were, but they are of a kind I well know to be more
solidly attaching to Marianne.
He was
solidly dazed by Westminster Abbey, which is not so unnatural since that church became the lumber room of the larger and less successful statuary of the eighteenth century.
I searched all over the outside for an aperture, a panel, or a manhole, to use a technical expression; but the lines of the iron rivets,
solidly driven into the joints of the iron plates, were clear and uniform.
It was a favourable change, and the Tankadere again bounded forward on this mountainous sea, though the waves crossed each other, and imparted shocks and counter-shocks which would have crushed a craft less
solidly built.
He had become a power,
solidly and steadfastly he had hewn his way into a little circle whose fascination had begun to tell in his blood.
Hugging the rim-ice that had already
solidly formed, he shot across the ice-spewing mouth of the Klondike just in time to see a lone man dancing excitedly on the rim and pointing into the water.
A large round rock, placed
solidly on its base, was the only spot to which they seemed to lead.
- these walls are
solidly put together;" and here, through the mere phrenzy of bravado, I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand, upon that very portion of the brick-work behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom.
Miss Bordereau, after all, had been in Europe nearly three-quarters of a century; it appeared by some verses addressed to her by Aspern on the occasion of his own second absence from America-- verses of which Cumnor and I had after infinite conjecture established
solidly enough the date--that she was even then, as a girl of twenty, on the foreign side of the sea.
The anchor is
solidly fastened, and there is nothing to fear in that respect.