Corners

Examples

• Lydgate did not speak, but tossed his head on one side, and twitched the corners of his mouth in despair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I think the corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The person of the house gave a weird little laugh here, and gave them another look out of the corners of her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• So saying, he pointed successively to two corners of the hut. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The corners of the Sergeant's melancholy mouth curled up, and he looked hard in my face, just as he had looked in the garden. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mr. Weller paused when he arrived at this point, and cast a comical look at his master out of the corners of his eyes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• No packing down is needed except in the corners and along the walls; at these points we endeavor to firm the ensilage just as much as possible. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He suggested it, by creasing his face with his two thumbs, from the corners of his mouth to his ears. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Keimer wore his beard at full length, because somewhere in the Mosaic law it is said, _Thou shalt not mar the corners of thy beard_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Wilfer to colour, Mrs Wilfer, from a corner (she always got into stately corners) came to the rescue with a deep-toned 'Per-fectly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Their airship flew well in a straight course, but there was difficulty in turning corners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Warren moved up near Huntley Corners on the Shady Grove Church Road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• If well spiked there will be no danger from spreading at the corners. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• An extremely wide flank-membrane stretches from the corners of the jaw to the tail, and includes the limbs with the elongated fingers. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• No other thing can scratch or mar the polished facets and sharp corners of the diamond. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On the two end slabs they are cut on the two outside corners. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A charming smile dimpled the corners of her mouth. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• And when they had children the vacant corners in both their lives would be filled. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• On the few occasions when anything amused him, he curled up a little at the corners of the lips, nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Leastways, lambs,' said Riderhood, observing him out of the corners of his eyes, 'that's wot I my own self sometimes ketches in rivers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Hall had thick steel plates dovetailed together; and angle irons tenoned at the corners. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Bartlett, uses its bill like a duck by throwing the water out at the corners. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The letter, which was scrawled in pencil uphill and downhill and round crooked corners, ran thus: 'OLD RIAH, Your accounts being all squared, go. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Everywhere, young fellows from the outlying districts were making conversation with the girls, standing in the road and at the corners. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They got in far enough to be out of the weather, and stored wood and food in odd corners. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some of the larger buildings had corners knocked off; pillars cut in two; cornices smashed; holes driven straight through the walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Pooh, pooh, my dear Sir,' said the little man, untying the bundle, and glancing eagerly at Mr. Pickwick out of the corners of his eyes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He curled up again at the corners of the lips, and disappeared. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The wind rasped and scraped at the corners of the house, and filliped the eavesdroppings like peas against the panes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He put on his spectacles to read the letter, pursing up his lips and drawing down their corners. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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