| inclement Nov 5th 2013, 07:14, by ReidAA | | | | Line 21: | Line 21: | | | #* '''1851''', {{w|Herman Melville}}, ''{{w|Moby-Dick}}'', [[s:Moby-Dick/Chapter 35|chapter 35]] | | #* '''1851''', {{w|Herman Melville}}, ''{{w|Moby-Dick}}'', [[s:Moby-Dick/Chapter 35|chapter 35]] | | | #*: Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow's-nests, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the '''inclement''' weather of the frozen seas. | | #*: Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow's-nests, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the '''inclement''' weather of the frozen seas. | | | + | #* '''1859''', {{w|Charles Dickens}}, ''{{w|A Tale of Two Cities}}'', [[s:A Tale of Two Cities/Book the Third/Chapter V|third book, fifth chapter]] | | | + | #*: From that time, in all weathers, she waited there two hours. As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away. When it was not too wet or '''inclement''' for her child to be with her, they went together; at other times she was alone; but, she never missed a single day. | | | #* '''1901''' to '''1902''', [[w:Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle]], ''{{w|The Hound of the Baskervilles}}'', [[s:The Hound of the Baskervilles/Chapter 3|chapter 3]] | | #* '''1901''' to '''1902''', [[w:Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle]], ''{{w|The Hound of the Baskervilles}}'', [[s:The Hound of the Baskervilles/Chapter 3|chapter 3]] | | | #*: The man was elderly and infirm. We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night '''inclement'''. Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash? | | #*: The man was elderly and infirm. We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night '''inclement'''. Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash? | | Line 26: | Line 28: | | | #* '''1851''', {{w|Herman Melville}}, ''{{w|Moby-Dick}}'', [[s:Moby-Dick/Chapter 34|chapter 34]] | | #* '''1851''', {{w|Herman Melville}}, ''{{w|Moby-Dick}}'', [[s:Moby-Dick/Chapter 34|chapter 34]] | | | #*: He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his '''inclement''', howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom! | | #*: He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his '''inclement''', howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom! | | − | #* '''1859''', {{w|Charles Dickens}}, ''{{w|A Tale of Two Cities}}'', [[s:A Tale of Two Cities/Book the Third/Chapter V|third book, fifth chapter]] | | | − | #*: From that time, in all weathers, she waited there two hours. As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away. When it was not too wet or '''inclement''' for her child to be with her, they went together; at other times she was alone; but, she never missed a single day. | | | | #*{{quote-book|year=1922|author={{w|Ben Travers}} | | #*{{quote-book|year=1922|author={{w|Ben Travers}} | | | |chapter=4|title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1521052W A Cuckoo in the Nest] | | |chapter=4|title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1521052W A Cuckoo in the Nest] |  |
