Treading hastily behind him, and stretching forth his gauntleted hand as if to grasp the old man's shoulder, came a tall, soldier-like
figure, equipped with a plumed cap of steel, a bright breastplate, and a long sword, which rattled against the stairs.
From Twice Told Tales
SOCRATES: You only assert that the round
figure is not more a
figure than the straight, or the straight than the round?
Meno
'"Why, yes, I am," answered the
figure; "they're doing a pretty brisk business in my way, over in England and France just now, and my time is a good deal taken up."
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
While my eyes were still fixed on the softly glowing
figure, I saw it fade away upward and upward into the higher light, as the lark vanishes upward and upward in the morning sky.
The Two Destinies
While filling her pipe the old woman continued to gaze with almost motherly affection at the
figure in the corner.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories
The
figure stood quite still, and so did she; not boldly, but of necessity; for going back into the room was hardly less terrible than going on.
The Old Curiosity Shop
The chateau burned; the nearest trees, laid hold of by the fire, scorched and shrivelled; trees at a distance, fired by the four fierce
figures, begirt the blazing edifice with a new forest of smoke.
Tale Of Two Cities
And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish
figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life.
Princess of Mars
can't you see they're not real Moors you're knocking down and killing and destroying, but only little pasteboard
figures! Look- sinner that I am!- how you're wrecking and ruining all that I'm worth!" But in spite of this, Don Quixote did not leave off discharging a continuous rain of cuts, slashes, downstrokes, and backstrokes, and at length, in less than the space of two credos, he brought the whole show to the ground, with all its fittings and
figures shivered and knocked to pieces, King Marsilio badly wounded, and the Emperor Charlemagne with his crown and head split in two.
Don Quixote
The door was opened to them by an aged servant or "dresser", whose broken-down face and
figure and black shabby coat and trousers contrasted queerly with the glittering interior of the great actress's dressing-room.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown
Thus musing, I had walked my way out of the throng, and only a
figure here and there in the shadows of doorways waited and waited in the cold.
Quest of the Golden Girl
More and more weakly the torn and bleeding arm struck home with the long sharp blade, then the little
figure stiffened with a spasmodic jerk, and Tarzan, the young Lord Greystoke, rolled unconscious upon the dead and decaying vegetation which carpeted his jungle home.
Tarzan of the Apes
How often I have seen him draw his dark brows together, fix his eyes upon some object on the wall or a
figure in the carpet, and then flash into the lamplight the very image that was in his brain.
My Antonia
Over the taffrail leant a silent black
figure, watching the stars.
Island of Doctor Moreau
Twenty-one rubles," he said, pointing to the
figure twenty-one by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and taking up a pack he prepared to deal.
War and Peace