" "Not on my account, Sir James," said Dorothea, determined not to lose the opportunity of freeing herself from certain oblique references to excellent matches.
That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to) is likely to have a secret contempt for us, and any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves.
The 110-foot long structure, an oblique concrete slab that looks like a sunken periscope, was submerged in July 2018 and work is now underway to complete the interiors, in anticipation of the public opening in spring 2019.
It sounds like a very mean and undemocratic thought, trading off the peculiar glamour that isolation has in a Romantic culture – in order to gain an oblique sense of superiority and perhaps pass off an absence of social skills as a virtue.
After a while, the girl says again, in an oblique voice: I should go… ,,"……" Raising her head, casting a quick glance at him and diverting her eyesight again, she tangles the fringes of her dress.
level tone versus oblique tone; ,; three, characters of the same part of speech having to be used, and in the same position, that is, function words versus function words and content words versus content words.
While performing the exercise, all of your abs, including the transverse, oblique and upper abs, must work together to stabilize and support your whole body.
