Theme: hierarchy
Gulliver's Travels / Feast and Court
He ordered his cooks and butlers, who were already prepared, to give me victuals and drink, which they pushed forward in a sort of vehicles upon wheel...
Gulliver's Travels / Power and Satire
We compute the _Tramecksan_, or high heels, to exceed us in number; but the power is wholly on our side. We apprehend his imperial highness, the heir ...
Gulliver's Travels / Power and Perception
Whenever I had a mind to see the town, it was always in my travelling-closet; which Glumdalclitch held in her lap in a kind of open sedan, after the f...
Pride and Prejudice / Societal Constraints
If you mention my name at the Bell, you will be attended to.” Lady Catherine had many other questions to ask respecting their journey; and as she did ...
Wuthering Heights / Vengeance and Forgiveness
It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level. As he was the first to...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Ambition
Collins was gratified; and with a more smiling solemnity replied,-- “It gives me the greatest pleasure to hear that you have passed your time not disa...
Pride and Prejudice / Power of Choice
He arranges the business just as he pleases.” “And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at least great pleasure in the power of ch...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Significance
Passepartout noticed in the crowd a number of the natives who seemed very old and were dressed in yellow. On going into a barber’s to get shaved he le...
Gulliver's Travels / Courtly Rituals
A messenger was despatched half a day’s journey before us, to give the king notice of my approach, and to desire, “that his majesty would please to ap...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Tension
Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Moment of Uncertainty
At this moment nothing is clear to me; I catch but a glimpse of light amidst all the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events shall di...
Gulliver's Travels / Travel and Patronage
I hired two mules, with a guide, to show me the way, and carry my small baggage. I took leave of my noble protector, who had shown me so much favour, ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Illness and Inquiry
“There is serious news this morning,” Lestrade observed. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of.” “An elderly man, I presume?” s...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Expectations
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Dynamics
You need not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which would, I s...
Gulliver's Travels / Identity and Perception
He desired to see no more; and gave me leave to put on my clothes again, for I was shuddering with cold. I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Dynamics
At last, when nothing else would do, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be ou...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Naming Identity
And the name of "Hansbach" ("Hans Brook") was at once agreed upon. Hans was not a bit more proud after hearing our determination than he was before. A...