In one sense, this picture had almost faded into the canvas, and hidden itself behind the duskiness of age; in another, she could not but fancy that it had been growing more prominent and
strikingly expressive, ever since her earliest familiarity with it as a child.
"Well,
strikingly true as it may be, it is not less true, my friend, that I shall return -- greatly beloved by M.
Catherick had been living there in service at the same time, we knew also--first, that Anne had been born in June, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven; secondly, that she had always presented an extraordinary personal resemblance to Laura; and, thirdly, that Laura herself was
strikingly like her father.
"Chimborazo is not particularly low, nor are the caverns of Kentucky so
strikingly elevated."
Kennedy's countenance
strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning, as Sir Walter Scott has depicted it in "The Monastery"; his stature was above six feet; full of grace and easy movement, he yet seemed gifted with herculean strength; a face embrowned by the sun; eyes keen and black; a natural air of daring courage; in fine, something sound, solid, and reliable in his entire person, spoke, at first glance, in favor of the bonny Scot.
It was a
strikingly beautiful figure, in the strictest sense of the word.
Such is the account given by Captain Bonneville of these rangers of the wilderness, and their appearance at the camp was
strikingly characteristic.
Fogg and his party had time to pay a visit to Salt Lake City, connected with Ogden by a branch road; and they spent two hours in this
strikingly American town, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, like a checker-board, "with the sombre sadness of right-angles," as Victor Hugo expresses it.
The resemblance between her and her mother was
strikingly great.
This peculiarity is
strikingly evinced in the head, as in some part of this book will be incidentally shown.
Grose that she was not at these times a child, but an old, old woman, and that description of her could not have been more
strikingly confirmed than in the way in which, for all answer to this, she simply showed me, without a concession, an admission, of her eyes, a countenance of deeper and deeper, of indeed suddenly quite fixed, reprobation.
President Donald Trump leads is "
strikingly similar" to a mob boss.