"Appurtenance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... notice of us. He was strangely a local, even a mountebank figure, but entirely local, an appurtenance of the district. ...
— Twilight in Italy • D.H. Lawrence
... only 1 deg. 23'; and spectators at Parma were able, when sheltered from the direct glare of mid-day, to trace the tail to a length of four or five degrees. The full dimensions of this astonishing appurtenance began to be disclosed a few days later. On the 3rd of March it measured 25 deg., and on the 11th, at Calcutta, Mr. Clerihew observed a second streamer, nearly twice as long as the first, and making an angle with it of 18 deg., to have been emitted in a single ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... complexion, (to employ perhaps an excessive stylistic restraint) not pale. A heavy stick. A fondness for stocks. Very becoming. A vitality with an aversion, apparently, to wearing an overcoat in the coldest weather; deeming this probably an appurtenance of the invalid. Funny style of trowsers as if made for legs about a foot longer. In the reign ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday |
