Use aspect in a sentence
Sentences ending with aspect
- I am talking, you know, as a poet; I do not say I deserve the name, but I have taken it, and if you consider me at all it must be in that aspect. [6]
- Him he found, without seeking him, outside the room meant for Hadrian's sitting-room, to which, while the Emperor still slept, he was endeavoring, with the help of his assistants, to give a comfortable and pleasing aspect. [10]
- When she was with Stanhope such a sacrifice seemed as impossible as it would be cruel, but when she was with Mrs. Bartlett Glow, or alone, the subject took another aspect. [4]
- It softened his whole otherwise rigid aspect. [6]
- Nothing could be whiter; nothing could be purer; nothing could be saintlier of aspect. [5]
- The world to which she returned after this hour had gained a new aspect. [10]
- How happy they were under their solemn aspect! [6]
- If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
- As she got well her help diminished the strain on her two friends, and in the beginning of March a call came to the widow which, if she followed it, must give their simple existence a new aspect. [10]
- One of them was a lad of nineteen or twenty, and he was a good deal of a ruin, as to clothes, and morals, and general aspect. [5]
Short sentences using aspect
- His aspect was too threatening. [10]
- The subject has another aspect. [4]
Sentences containing aspect two or more times
- She thinks it's the moral aspect, but it's really the revolutionary aspect, the menace to those precious institutions from which we derive our privileges and comforts. [9]
More example sentences with the word aspect in them
- You must subdue your curiosity for a few days longer, and then it may easily happen that the man whose very aspect makes you feel dirty--the bat, the toad--" "Let that pass now," cried Polykarp. [10]
- When it reaches you it will mean that there is a hitch in my machine-enterprise--a hitch so serious as to make it take to itself the aspect of a dissolved dream. [5]
- Doris had never worn so unpleasing an aspect to Hadrian as at this instant, in this decisive moment of her life. [10]
- Albeit it had worn another aspect than this brand new flame, which I now felt burning and blazing up from the early-lighted and long smouldering fire, nevertheless it had been of the best, and faithful and true. [10]
- It must have worn a different aspect to Ruth, for she entered into its pleasures at first with curiosity, and then with interest and finally with a kind of staid abandon that no one would have deemed possible for her. [5]
- A Paul, or with longer hair and a little more youthful aspect, an admirable St. John. [10]
- They were connected with each other by colonnades, or by little bridges, under which flowed canals, that watered the gardens and gave the palace-grounds the aspect of a town built on islands. [10]
- Argue as you will and long as you will, this is the naked front and aspect of the measure. [7]
- Some of them were bodied and barked like the sycamore; some were of fantastic aspect, and reminded one of the quaint apple trees in Japanese pictures. [5]
- They had been well schooled, and, as the mysterious and to them incomprehensible ceremony was enacted, maintained the most stoical aspect of tranquillity. [6]
- A more hollow, wasted, pallid aspect I have not beheld. [14]
- And yet there was that perfect smile, that adorable aspect of the brow, that light in the deep eyes. [11]
- The little river was full now, and ice had formed on it, with small openings here and there, where the dark water, hurrying along as if in fear of arrest, had a more chilling aspect than the icy cover. [4]
- But his lot was cast, and his youth had all the serious aspect to himself of thoughtful manhood. [6]
- Dr. Fordyce Hurlbut was a widower, not yet forty years old, a man of a fine masculine aspect and a vigorous nature. [6]
- Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. [7]
- My client, in view of the peaceful aspect affairs had assumed, presently consented to relinquish his post, and handed the glasses over to me with an injunction to be watchful. [9]
- And not less various than their aspect were the tongues of the allied troops--but all obedient to the king's word of command. [10]
- But these fears vanished before a well-trimmed lamp and the familiar aspect of her own room. [12]
- And when I use the word "atmosphere" I mean the mental state of the peoples as well as the weather and the aspect of the skies. [9]
- So he paused until all was quiet, then his face grew grave and assumed an impressive aspect, and at once all faces sobered in sympathy and took on a look of wondering and expectant interest. [5]
- It does not undertake to discuss the theoretical aspect of the subject; that is a secondary matter of consideration. [3]
- She was a tug, and one of a very peculiar build and aspect. [5]
- These huge brass tubes, mounted on their scaffoldings and pointed skyward from every choice vantage-ground, have the formidable look of artillery, and give the town the general aspect of getting ready to repel a charge of angels. [5]
- There was another tree of striking aspect, a kind of pine, we were told. [5]
- His destiny, if tragical, presented itself with an aspect which he might have found comic if it had been another's destiny. [8]
- In the one tower of the citadel there were prisons of tolerably pleasant aspect, but she had heard whispers of terrible subterranean dungeons connected with the secret tribunal. [10]
- Instantly the waves took hues of lighter brown, deeper yellow, and cloudy gray, and the sea wore the aspect of a shallow pond with muddy bottom, into which workmen hurl blocks of stone. [10]
- The Emperor's room, too, had an altered aspect, for, instead of a few letters and despatches, his writing-table was now covered not only with maps and plans, but lists and tables referring to the condition of his army. [10]
- The enormous sum to which the debt to Samuel Pfefferkorn increased gives the position of affairs a different aspect. [10]
- Her character corresponded to the promise of her gracious aspect. [6]
- He was devoted to the people as she was, he understood them; and for the moment their passion of humanity assumed the same aspect, though she knew that what he saw, or thought he saw, lay beyond her agnostic vision. [4]
- An aspect obnoxious to the gaze will pour water on the fiercest fire. [10]
- Their career began to take a tragic aspect, and some one had to be brought in to help work the machinery; so Pudd'nhead Wilson was introduced and taken on trial. [5]
- It is astonishing to see what a change for the better in her aspect a few weeks of brain-rest and heart's ease have wrought in her. [6]
- But the right to make a pursuit of happiness, given in a fundamental bill of rights, had quite a different aspect. [4]
- They are pleasanter to look upon then than they are in their theatrical aspect. [5]
- After introducing Paula to her worthy host and his family, he quitted the house of Rufinus with a very crushed aspect. [10]
- It was repulsive to endow this explanation of an unfortunate error with a captivating aspect by any theatrical adornment. [10]
- Friends urged him to embody in a lecture the picturesque aspect of Hawaiian life. [5]
- With every desire to do justice to the pretty town of Oswego, which lies on a gentle slope by the lake, it had to them an out-of-doors, unprotected, remote aspect. [4]
- Nothing was yet to be seen of the various musicians, jugglers, fire-eaters, serpent-charmers, and conjurers, who in the evening displayed their skill in this part of the town, which at all times had the aspect of a never ceasing fair. [10]
- It is only to be met by an imperturbable mask of serenity, proof against anything and everything in a patient's aspect. [6]
- Tom Canty lived to be a very old man, a handsome, white-haired old fellow, of grave and benignant aspect. [5]
- Of late a thought had mingled with her fancies which had given to the river the aspect of something more than a friend and a companion. [6]
- This edifice, which, though its exterior was almost wholly devoid of ornament, nevertheless presented a majestic aspect on account of its vast size, adjoined a splendid park, whose leafy groups of ancient trees merged into the forest of Soignies. [10]
- But perhaps all this might gain a more satisfactory aspect by daylight. [10]
- I turn from this less pleasing aspect of the common intelligence which renders such follies possible, to close the honorable record of the medical profession in this, our ancient Commonwealth. [3]
- Well, considering that they have the article itself in such an attractive aspect, they ought to manage to get along without the word. [5]
- A figure appeared there whose aspect was familiar to hardly a dozen persons present. [5]
- He hoped that there was no offence,--thought it might have been mutooally agreeable, conclooded he would give up the idee of a colation, and backed himself out as if unwilling to expose the less guarded aspect of his person to the risk of accelerating impulses. [6]
- This was not the white horse which Mr. Thomas Hughes has made famous, but one of much less archaic aspect and more questionable history. [6]
- It gives to the wearer a singularly piquant and alluring aspect. [5]
- Dick looked from the weapon to the person who held it, and saw a sturdy, plain man standing over him, with his teeth clinched, and his aspect that of one all ready for mischief. [6]
- The owner of the voice bore all the marks of a gentleman: picturesque and costly raiment, the aspect of command, a hard countenance, with complexion and features marred by dissipation. [5]
- Nothing could save the twins but the discovery of a person who did the murder on his sole personal account--an undertaking which had all the aspect of the impossible. [5]
- I remember well the sweet dignity of her aspect, her "regal beauty," as Mr. Phillips truly styles it, and the charm of her serene and noble presence, which made her the type of a perfect motherhood. [6]
- No matter what the subject might be, a brain-racking effort was made to squirm it into some aspect or other that the moral and religious mind could contemplate with edification. [5]
- The houses along the road were not for the most part neatly kept; the garden fences were poorly built of laths or long slats, and very rarely of trim aspect. [6]
- As a rule, the rains had beaten down parts of some of the houses, and this gave the village the aspect of a mouldering and hoary ruin. [5]
- It was true the question appeared in a different aspect to persons in consequence of a difference in the point from which they looked at it. [7]
- One aspect of the publishing business which has become increasingly prominent during the last fifteen years cannot be overlooked, for it is certain to affect seriously the production of literature as to quality, and its distribution. [4]
- To him, in the privacy of his secret thoughts, all other men were monsters, deformities: and during three-fourths of his life their aspect had filled him with what promised to be an unconquerable aversion. [5]
- The aspect of the palace at Lochias was entirely changed. [10]
- The first is the noble cast of the column of Trajan, vast in dimensions, crowded with history in its most striking and enduring form; a long array of figures representing in unquestioned realism the military aspect of a Roman army. [6]
- With admirable taste the matron had aimed at giving Melissa a simple, dignified aspect, unadorned and almost priestess-like in its severity. [10]
- It adds to the manly aspect of a person with a tin pail if he also carries a gun. [4]
- In walking along the main street, Mr. Bernard had noticed a large house of some pretensions to architectural display, namely, unnecessarily projecting eaves, giving it a mushroomy aspect, wooden mouldings at various available points, and a grandiose arched portico. [6]
- At that time the homely saint was deposed; and he wears now, I think, a snubbed and cast-aside aspect. [4]
- The depth of the gorge, the sweep of the sky line, and the reposeful aspect of the scene to the sunny south made this view both grand and charming. [4]
- In 1606, upon the entry of the king of Denmark, the chronicler celebrates "the unimaginable number of gallant ladies, beauteous virgins, and other delicate dames, filling the windows of every house with kind aspect. [4]
- One who saw the Duke of Wellington in his last years describes him as very gentle in his aspect and demeanor. [6]
- An elephant on the desert, fronting the Atlantic Ocean, had, after all, a picturesque aspect, and all the more so because he was a deserted ruin. [4]
- To return to the colder scientific aspect of chemistry. [3]
- The aspect of the balance-sheet is enlightening. [5]
- Almost melancholy is the aspect of its freestone colonial building, where once the colonial legislature held its momentous sessions, and the colonial governor shed the delightful aroma of royalty. [4]
- On the contrary, the army had never under the best material conditions presented a more cheerful and animated aspect. [2]
- Until late in the afternoon the Jungfrau's aspect is that of a spotless desert of snow set upon edge against the sky. [5]
- Why was it that, to Hodder, he should gradually have assumed something of the aspect of a Cerberus? [9]
- Agne felt, knew, that this stately man was the Bishop whom she sought, but she did not point him out to her little brother, for his aspect was that of some proud sovereign rather than of "the good, kind man" of whom she had dreamed. [10]
- His aspect was that of one of gentle birth. [6]
- There is nothing that happens, you know, which must not inevitably, and which does not actually, photograph itself in every conceivable aspect and in all dimensions. [6]
- Through the cloud that darkened her aspect, now and then a ray would steal forth, which, like the smile of stern and solemn people, was all the more impressive from its contrast with the expression she wore habitually. [6]
- It must take ten thousand years of want to produce such an aspect. [5]
- The production of temporary insensibility at will--tuto, cito, jucunde, safely, quickly, pleasantly--is one of those triumphs over the infirmities of our mortal condition which change the aspect of life ever afterwards. [3]
- Since I began teaching in this school, the aspect of many branches of science has undergone a very remarkable transformation. [3]
- Emerson had only tangential relations with the experiment, and tells its story in his "Historic Notes" very kindly and respectfully, but with that sense of the ridiculous in the aspect of some of its conditions which belongs to the sagacious common-sense side of his nature. [6]
- I remember a tall poplar of monumental proportions and aspect, a vast pillar of glossy green, placed on the summit of a lofty hill, and a beacon to all the country round. [6]
- It began to take on the aspect of a great lottery, in which one class expected to draw in reverse proportion to what it put in, and another class knew that it would only reap as it had sowed. [4]
- You have no such hindrance, if we may judge by your aspect and habits. [6]
- It was a strange manoeuvre,--so strange and threatening in aspect that the young man forgot his nervousness in an instant, cocked his pistol, and waited to see what mischief all this meant. [6]
- Business stood nearly still, and the streets bore an empty Sunday aspect. [5]
- Even in this state it reached from floor to ceiling; and thrusting itself forward, with that excessively wide-awake aspect, and air of somewhat obtrusive politeness, by which figure-heads are usually characterised, seemed to reduce everything else to mere pigmy proportions. [12]
- The mean and sordid aspect of Fowler Street emphasized and seemed to typify my despair, the pungent coal smoke stifled my lungs even as it stifled my spirit. [9]
- There was a softness in the distant outline, villas peeped out here and there, carriages were passing in the road below, there was a cheerful life in the stream--there was a harmony in the aspect of nature and humanity from this height. [4]
- But from the social, or rather society, point of view, the subject has a disquieting aspect. [4]
- She even turned so that he should see her profile in what she thought was its most becoming aspect. [2]
- Yet they presented so bizarre an aspect, their ugliness was so varied and particular, that she almost laughed. [11]
- This prevalence of snowy costumes gave the promenade deck an invitingly cool, and cheerful and picnicky aspect. [5]
- As I walked slowly back to the office, seeking the shade of the awnings, the figure in the darkened room took on a sinister aspect that troubled me.... [9]
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