Our appetites being sharpened by the frosty voyage, and in particular, Queequeg seeing his favorite fishing food before him, and the chowder being
surpassingly excellent, we despatched it with great expedition: when leaning back a moment and bethinking me of Mrs.
The mountains looked
surpassingly lovely, clad as they were in living, green; ribbed with lava ridges; flecked with white cottages; riven by deep chasms purple with shade; the great slopes dashed with sunshine and mottled with shadows flung from the drifting squadrons of the sky, and the superb picture fitly crowned by towering peaks whose fronts were swept by the trailing fringes of the clouds.
When they carried him away from Algiers he was in woman's dress; on board the vessel, however, he exchanged it for that of a captive who escaped with him; but in whatever dress he might be he looked like one to be loved and served and esteemed, for he was
surpassingly well-favoured, and to judge by appearances some seventeen or eighteen years of age.
At length a hand and an arm,
surpassingly beautiful in their form and whiteness, glided through the tapestry.
And yet there was neither coarseness nor want of shadowing in a countenance that was exquisitely regular, and dignified and
surpassingly beautiful.
She read it aloud, and the Cobbs thought it not only
surpassingly beautiful, but a marvelous production
Hubble, who were
surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession.
Grewgious, as one placed in authority by the revelation he had brought to bear on the mystery (and
surpassingly Angular Mr.
The little man nodded his head, and showed his teeth; and yet seemed not quite convinced that it was a
surpassingly desirable arrangement.
For instance, those which describe lowly, peaceful, and affectionate home life; those which deal with love, in any and all forms, from mere kindly feeling and honest good will toward the passing stranger, clear up to courtship; those which deal with outdoor Nature, in its softest and loveliest aspects--with meadows and forests, and birds and flowers, the fragrance and sunshine of summer, and the moonlight of peaceful winter nights; in a word, those which deal with any and all forms of rest, respose, and peace; those also which deal with the creatures and marvels of fairyland; and lastly and chiefly, in those words which express pathos, is the language
surpassingly rich and affective.
A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a
surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely-moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity; these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten.
The lady was
surpassingly beautiful, while the rich magnificence of her attire drew all eyes upon her.