1 Already one long oval bank of sand lay warm and dry amid the wavelets.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 2 It was an oval face with strongly marked features.
3 A pale, oval face came forward into the light.
4 He was dressed in a long green overcoat with mock astrakhan cuffs and collar and wore on his head an oval fur cap.
5 Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms.
6 He winced and, taking up from the table an oval glass framed in ivory Cupids, one of Lord Henry's many presents to him, glanced hurriedly into its polished depths.
7 The white oval of her face swam out waveringly from a background of shadows, the uncertain light blurring it like a haze; but the two lines about the mouth remained.
8 It was the country club, the diplomatic set, the St. Cecilia, the Ritz oval room, the Club de Vingt.
9 , a sword, pale, on an oval shield, like all the Italian armorial bearings, and surmounted by a cardinal's hat; Dantes easily recognized them, Faria had so often drawn them for him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 10 Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
11 Up the drive she came, tooting up the incline, then sweeping round the oval of grass, where the two great wild beech-trees stood, on the flat in front of the house.
12 Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of the bed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM