Images

Examples

• Pretschi, have also successfully directed their attention to engraving the images of the camera, which has now obtained a high degree of perfection. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• She sank into the chair, and for a few moments sat like a statue, while images and emotions were hurrying upon her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But then, when the man commits burglary in order to break images which are not his own, that brings it away from the doctor and on to the policeman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Bits of old wood carvings from the pulpit, and panels from the chancel, and images from the organ-loft, said the clerk. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The reflectors were in some cases inclined to each other, and he remarked the circular arrangement of the images of a candle round a centre. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• No graven images could enter Jerusalem; even the Roman standards with their eagles had to stay outside. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For what is the memory but a faculty, by which we raise up the images of past perceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In short, the eye could turn nowhere without meeting images of childhood, of beauty, and of peace. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. Plato. The Republic.
• They behold in the sun the reflection of His glory; mere graven images they reject, refusing to fall under the 'tyranny' of idolatry. Plato. The Republic.
• It is certain we cannot take pleasure in any discourse, where our judgment gives no assent to those images which are presented to our fancy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Living in the Eighteenth Century, they thought in the images of Newton and Montesquieu. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We need only provide for the present, and endeavour to fill with pleasant images the inexperienced fancy of your lovely niece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Thus the images _d_1 on both sides are reflected to form the single image _d_2, and the images _e_1 are in the same manner reflected to form the second image _e_2. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There is usually a complete want of coherency in the images that appear in dreams, but when we are dreaming this does not seem to cause any surprise. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Fox Talbot has distinguished himself in thus fixing the images on steel, as he was the first to impress them upon paper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But even if his resolves had forced the two images into combination, the useful preliminaries to that hard change were not visibly within reach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the seclusion of their monasteries, they speculated on the mysterious powers of Nature, then partially revealed to them, and shadowed forth images of their possible applications. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Caleb paused here, and perhaps the greatest orator could not have chosen either his pause or his images better for the occasion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The Calotype process, by which the images of the camera can be fixed upon paper, was invented by Mr. Talbot, in 1840. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Something draws me to it, says the girl, making images with her finger in the sand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Little images of grown people! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The very image, which is present to the senses, is with us the real body; and it is to these interrupted images we ascribe a perfect identity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Dorothea had less of outward vision than usual this morning, being filled with images of things as they had been and were going to be. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Its mental life is a chaos of images. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It looked on downcast faces, the images of mournful hearts. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And in the train of those images came their apology. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The images of health and hope which I presented to her, made her with a smile consent. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Her images stood in the temple, crowned as the Queen of Heaven and bearing the infant Horus in her arms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Were it not for the help of words we should be dependent, like the lower animals, on the fleeting images of things. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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