Cluster

Examples

• He came out, looked up at them--the pale cluster of faces--and smiled good courage to them, before he locked the factory-door. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The stories of violence and vanity in his closing years cluster thick upon his memory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Beneath a cluster of these which afforded perfect concealment from wandering air scouts, we lay down to sleep--for me the first time in many hours. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Mrs. Rushworth was gone to repeat her lesson to Mr. Crawford; and Edmund, Fanny, and Miss Crawford remained in a cluster together. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• They saw the golden lights of the hotel glowing out in the night of snow-silence, small in the hollow, like a cluster of yellow berries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As he wrote a word on his card and waited for an envelope he glanced about the embowered shop, and his eye lit on a cluster of yellow roses. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• A thick cluster of filings will adhere to the wire (Fig. 210), and will continue to cling to it so long as the current flows. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They range from mere specks scarcely visible with a powerful magnifying glass, to large black spots or clusters of large or small black specks sometimes quite plain to the naked eye. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The ivy and the moss crept in thick clusters over the old trees, and the soft green turf overspread the ground like a silken mat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Filings do not adhere to the sides of the helix, but they cling in clusters to the ends of the coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The nuts hang from the summit of the tree in clusters of a dozen or more together. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In a contribution on this subject submitted to the Royal Society in 1787 he announced the discovery of 466 new nebul? and clusters of stars. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In large genera the species are apt to be closely but unequally allied together, forming little clusters round other species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• To improve such earthenware and to best decorate it, are the objects around which modern inventions have mostly clustered. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We clustered together a group of wretched sufferers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And what are varieties but groups of forms, unequally related to each other, and clustered round certain forms--that is, round their parent-species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• As Fries has well remarked, little groups of species are generally clustered like satellites around other species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She was pale and fair, and her golden hair clustered on her temples, contrasting its rich hue with the living marble beneath. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He will find it clustering about certain big revolts--the unrest of women, for example, or the increasing demands of industrial workers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Parthenon of Athens, whose ruins are still a thing of beauty, was but the crown set upon the clustering glories of the Athens Pericles rebuilt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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