Recesses

Examples

• I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn rises with his hands in his pockets and walks into one of the window recesses. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She was too self-engrossed to penetrate the recesses of his shyness, and besides, why should she care to give herself the trouble? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Probably early men did not go deeply into the caves, because they had no means of lighting their recesses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The middle ages carefully repressed the minds of men, and hid away in dark recesses the instruments of learning. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Yet more was amiss with him than Miss Peecher's simply arranged little work-box of thoughts, fitted with no gloomy and dark recesses, could hold. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He sat silent, his thick hands clasped on the table, his little puzzled eyes exploring the recesses of the deserted restaurant. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• New secrets of physiology may be revealed, deeply affecting human nature in its innermost recesses. Plato. The Republic.
• The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose a?rial summits hung over its recesses. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A spring trickles out of the rock in the gloomy recesses of the cavern, and we were thirsty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This sleeve is then withdrawn, the breech block forced in, and is there locked by a turn of the threads of a locking screw _b_ into the corresponding recesses _a_ in the breech. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He fled from the spot, and plunged into the thickest recesses of a neighbouring wood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• What I cannot describe is, how, in the innermost recesses of my own heart, I had a lurking jealousy even of Death. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I learned her nature afterwards--got it off by heart--studied it in its farthest, most hidden recesses. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She had advanced to the secret recesses of sensuousness, yet had hardly crossed the threshold of conventionality. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• What I am describing, slumbered, and half awoke, and slept again, in the innermost recesses of my mind. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In all sorts of recesses, and on all kinds of brackets, stood massive old silver candlesticks with four branches each. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The trail of the explorer was more instantly lost in New York than in the vast recesses of the Amazon swamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Margaret