Shapes

Examples

• The planing machine is organized in various shapes for different uses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Death in all shapes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As to sleep, I had dreams of poverty in all sorts of shapes, but I seemed to dream without the previous ceremony of going to sleep. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No one sees more vividly than he the fact that in the interplay of the arts one industry shapes and helps another, and that no invention lives to itself alone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The business, however difficult, shapes itself to your effort; you seem to manage detail with an inferior part of yourself, while the real soul of you is active, planning, light. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Then he can hardly be compelled by external influence to take many shapes? Plato. The Republic.
• I fixedly looked at the street-stones, where the door-lamp shone, and counted them and noted their shapes, and the glitter of wet on their angles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Surely death is not death, and humanity is not extinct; but merely passed into other shapes, unsubjected to our perceptions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The shadows of things assumed strange and ghastly shapes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• For twenty minutes he pored over them, when suddenly they commenced to take familiar though distorted shapes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Then as to the rail: first the wooden, then the iron and now the steel, and all of many shapes and weights. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The wild animals in the woods took fright at the unknown shapes figured on the ground. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There is no great difficulty in seeing how it shapes the external habits of action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• We distort a dozen sickly trees into unaccustomed shapes in a little yard no bigger than a dining room, and then surely they look absurd enough. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Hence the peculiar merit of benevolence in all its shapes and appearances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It shapes many a rough fellow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I had been calm during the day; but so soon as night obscured the shapes of objects, a thousand fears arose in my mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He also considered various forms and shapes for the armature, and by methodical and systematic research obtained the data and best conditions upon which he could build his generator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It seems probable that the skull shapes of a people may under special circumstances vary in comparatively few generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But still, we are aware, my friend, that love-gages may take strange shapes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A good tool-kit holds a number of files of various shapes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They make trees take fifty different shapes, and so these quaint effects are infinitely varied and picturesque. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As to gold, silver and lead, they doubtless were found first in their native state and mixed with other ores and were hammered into the desired shapes with the hardest stone implements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A rivet-making machine forms the rivet, and shapes the head to the requisite size, with great accuracy and quickness. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• His arms and legs were like great pincushions of those shapes, and his attire disguised him absurdly; but I knew his half-closed eye at one glance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Plantation rubber usually comes in the form of sheets of various shapes and sizes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Typist: Malcolm