1 I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.
2 Here, then, was a wide and reasonably lofty hall, extending through the whole depth of the house, and forming a medium of general communication, more or less directly, with all the other apartments.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL 3 So powerful was its radiance, that it thoroughly illuminated the dense medium of cloud betwixt the sky and earth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL 4 Oftener, however, its credibility rested on the faith of some lonely eye-witness, who beheld the wonder through the coloured, magnifying, and distorted medium of his imagination, and shaped it more distinctly in his after-thought.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL 5 Such scenes had once appeared not otherwise than happy, but now, as viewed through the dismal medium of her subsequent life, they classed themselves among her ugliest remembrances.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 6 These, perhaps, if more distinctly heard, might have been only a grosser medium, and have clogged the spiritual sense.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 7 I thought it best to hint, through the medium of a meditative look, that this might be occasioned by circumstances over which I had no control.
8 I endeavoured to hit a happy medium between these two extremes; my aunt approved the result; and Mr. Dick threw one of his shoes after Traddles and me, for luck, as we went downstairs.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 9 But the principle always failed us by some curious fatality, and we never could hit any medium between redness and cinders.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING 10 She would have been a good figure, too, if it had not been for her extreme thinness and the size of her head, which was too large for her medium height.
11 The sense of being once more lapped and folded in ease, as in some dense mild medium impenetrable to discomfort, effectually stilled the faintest note of criticism.
12 He was a man of forty, of medium height and rather slender build; he stooped a little.
13 During the foregoing address the progress of the speaker was too plainly read by those most interested in his success through the medium of the countenances of the men he addressed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 14 There he found David, pouring out his pious feelings through the only medium in which he ever indulged.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 15 The latest arrival was a man of medium height, but well put together, and possessed of a pair of full red cheeks, a set of teeth as white as snow, and coal-black whiskers.