Sentence examples for this personage from inspiring English sources

The hands are enormous and give the impression that this personage could grow even bigger if it chose.

"The truth is, that I am obliged to copy these names for sword-fighting out of a book, having no direct experience to call upon," this personage confesses.

This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.

A great amount of emotional energy on his part, and eventually on that of Edgar and Jack, goes into the care of Elizabeth Eastlake, but the charm of this "Personage" for the reader remains obscure.

It is never quite clear why Mr. Sebald decided to use the device of the narrator to frame Austerlitz's story, for this personage remains oddly passive throughout the book, sympathetically listening to Austerlitz, while contributing few comments of his own.

According to the Báb, this personage, promised in the sacred writings of previous religions, would establish the kingdom of God on the Earth; several of the Báb's writings state the coming of Him whom God shall make manifest would be imminent.

Step back for a moment and it might all seem quite preposterous, the kowtowing to this overweight personage stoked with milk and cookies, this fiction with which grown-ups indoctrinate their children, so wholly co-opted in the pursuit of lucre that one might imagine a jaded populace would let it drop.

Cairo and Mecca received this royal personage, whose glittering procession, in the superlatives employed by Arab chroniclers, almost put Africa's sun to shame.

Although this talkative personage arrives without warning, leaving Everyman — who has passed his life in pursuit of worldly pleasures — frantically unprepared to face the final reckoning, Roth's hero is beset by the kind of modern medical warnings that keep death ever present in one's mind.

He comes to believe that the Palais Royal, Versailles, and a beautiful woman the sights he sees while touring France belong to this mysterious personage.

Like "Pi," this novel begins with a framing story involving a Martel-like personage — this time a writer named Henry, who is famous for being the author of a prizewinning best seller featuring wild animals.