Citations:appearances


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes.
 * I was at first unable to solve these questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me many appearances which were at first enigmatic.
 * Soon after, however, Felix approached with another man; I was surprised, as I knew that he had not quitted the cottage that morning, and waited anxiously to discover from his discourse the meaning of these unusual appearances.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Without venturing for Scrooge quite as hardily as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much.