Fixed

Examples

• He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We treat it simply as a privation because we are measuring it by adulthood as a fixed standard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The marriage is fixed for the twenty-second of December. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The cuttle-fish had a face that stared straight from the heart of the light, very fixed and coldly intent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She fixed him with her eye. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In less than an hour poor Fanny opened her eyes and fixed them on me with a bright smile, expressive of the purest happiness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• At the bottom of the penstock is placed a turbine wheel fixed on a shaft, and to which shaft is connected an electric generator or other power machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Nomadism cuts men off from fixed temples and intense local associations; they take a broader and simpler view of the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Property must be stable, and must be fixed by general rules. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• 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.
• In the following year Davy reported other chemical changes produced by electricity; he had succeeded in decomposing the fixed alkalis and disc overing the elements potassium and sodium. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We speak of fixed habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The woman fixed a wild and startled look on Tom, as if a new thought had struck her; and then, heavily groaning, said, O God a' mercy! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Each interest is acknowledged as a kind of fixed institution to which something in the course of study must correspond. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In other works a much greater fixed capital is required. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is a horrible tyranny of a fixed milieu, where each piece of furniture is a commandment-stone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• 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.
• There were twenty-five of these tubes passing through the boiler, and fixed water-tight at each end. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I wish her whole attention to be fixed on my accent; and to ensure this, she must follow the reading with her eyes--she must look at the book. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All these circumstances gave property a less fixed and sacred character. Plato. The Republic.
• One eye was buried in the soft loam; the other, rolling sidewise, was fixed in awe upon the strange gyrations of Professor Porter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• With the look fixed upon him, in her paleness and wildness, she panted out in his arms, imploringly, O my dear friend! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Once as he passed close to a troop truck and the lights flashed he saw their faces fixed and sad in the sudden light. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• From the rail before the dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It was greatly my wish that he should do so, he added, as soon as his marriage was fixed on. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The intermediate month was the one fixed on, as far as they dared, by Emma and Mr. Knightley. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She paused with a slight falter of embarrassment, and Trenor, turning abruptly, fixed on her a look of growing intelligence. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Leaning back in his chair he could watch Caroline without her perceiving where his gaze was fixed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Typed by Dewey