Features

Examples

• The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her features worked,--I am sorry; I am sorry! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• All these features are now given to the shingle by modern machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Paler than marble, with white lips and convulsed features, Idris became aware of my situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As was to be expected, the card index and electrically operated features caused thousands of concerns, large and small, to adopt the addressograph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It seemed to be of an unnatural color, and to have a strange rigidity about the features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I could see the thin features of the man from where I stood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I could not refuse her requeSt. Her features bore the fixed rigidity of death when I entered her room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The smile that played on Mr. Pickwick's features was instantaneously lost in a look of the most unbounded and wonder-stricken surprise. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We had reached the first houses, and were close on the new Wesleyan college, before her set features relaxed and she spoke once more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It embodied, as leading features, the steam blast and the multitubular boiler, which latter was six feet long and had twenty-five three-inch tubes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It closely resembled in general features the telegraph of Baron de Schilling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• We see this plainly in our own children; we cannot tell whether a child will be tall or short, or what its precise features will be. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Its main features are described as follows: The types, being rubbed or scraped narrower toward the foot, were to be fixed radially upon a cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Then with a grand effort she rallied from the shock, and a supreme astonishment and indignation chased every other expression from her features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had a head of abnormal size, with highly intellectual features and a very small and emaciated body. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her fingers went over the mould of his face, over his features. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Compound utterances addressed themselves to their senses, and it was possible to view by ear the features of the neighbourhood. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A noseless Cupid or a Jupiter with an eye out or a Venus with a fly-blister on her breast, are not attractive features in a picture. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Her features were handsome; but their natural play was so locked up, that it seemed impossible to guess at their genuine expression. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In spite of very distinctive features of their own, these two teachers do in a manner arise out of, and in succession to these Jewish prophets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• For an hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Her features, like her frame, were strong and massive, rather than heavy. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He held my friend's card in his hand, and he looked up with no very pleased expression upon his dour features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It seemed as if something like the reflection of a white sunlit wing had passed across her features, ending in one of her rare blushes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The students of languages (philologists) tell us that they are unable to trace with certainty any common features in all the languages of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her complexion was sallow and unhealthy, her cheeks thin, her features sharp, and her whole form emaciated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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