Citations:shape


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now I saw that, just on the other side of this plain, the pilgrims came to a place where stood an old monument, hard by the highway side, at the sight of which they were both concerned, because of the strangeness of the form thereof; for it seemed to them as if it had been a woman transformed into the shape of a pillar; here, therefore they stood looking, and looking upon it, but could not for a time tell what they should make thereof.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * "It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied."


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one.
 * "How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day."
 * Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when the Bell struck One, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling.