Sentence examples for a sequence of chapters from inspiring English sources

A sequence of chapters in the middle of the novel is set in Putney Vale Cemetery, which adjoins Wimbledon Common.

But, as Brookner shows, in a sequence of chapters dealing predominantly, and in roughly chronological order, with three painters (Antoine-Jean Gros, DelandoIngres Ingres) and five writers (Musset, Baudelaire, the Goncourts, Zola and Huysmans), it is the balance of tendencies which determines the character of an artist's work, and this varies according to his allegiances in general.

Having set the scene, and expanded it with swift economy in a sequence of short chapters, Crane unfolds his creative purpose: to get under the skin of a young soldier, the volunteer Henry Fleming, who has enlisted as a challenge to himself.

It used steady rhythms and vamps as well as free improvisation; it was both a collection of solos and a sequence of careful chapters; it seemed to spotlight its written melodies, then go on to treat them neutrally; and Mr. Stanko occasionally interrupted his own cautious melodies with a loud, gestural flash, bright and abstract.

The work is not a neat sequence of chapters or questions with pro and con arguments.

David's personal collection provides the framework for this book - a sequence of fragmented, non-chronological chapters, ranging through several generations of the Carter family, each passage inspired by a souvenir or relic from the annals of family life.

Henry James, no less, was a great fan of the "Flight in the Heather" sequence of chapters.

Displayed diorama-style in a sequence of vitrines — one for each chapter — the collection of bric-a-brac retells the novel.

The most interesting part of "Michael Tolliver Lives" is probably the sequence of chapters that takes Mike and Ben to visit Mike's family in Orlando.

One particularly difficult problem was the sequence of chapters, which, although suggested by some of his father's notations, was not always clear.

But the sequence of chapters in which self-involved, trivial Rosamond realizes that Will Ladislaw is in love with Dorothea, not her she is "taken hold of by an emotion stronger than her own, hurried along in a new movement which gave all things some new, awful, undefined aspect"—is a masterpiece of sympathetic imagination.