Theme: observation
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Cultural Surveillance
Reaching the bottom, about five yards deep, he went on his knees and filled his bag with oysters picked up at random. Then he went up, emptied it, pul...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Perception and Deduction
Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.” He chuckled to himself and rubbed h...
Frankenstein / Concealment and Joy
Here I paused, not exactly knowing what path to pursue, when I heard the sound of voices, that induced me to conceal myself under the shade of a cypre...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Mystery Unfolds
“What on earth can be the matter with him?” I asked. “He is looking up at the numbers of the houses.” “I believe that he is coming here,” said Holmes,...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Vigilance at Sea
I leave you to judge how eyes were used on board the _Abraham Lincoln_. For my own part I was not behind the others, and left to no one my share of da...
Gulliver's Travels / Philosophy of Mundanity
The good woman, with much difficulty, at last perceived what I would be at, and taking me up again in her hand, walked into the garden, where she set ...
Gulliver's Travels / Observation and Folly
That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them. That the weather being calm, he...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Deductive Curiosity
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and tha...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Diverse Observations
I saw many kinds which I never before had a chance of observing. I shall notice chiefly ostracions peculiar to the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and that...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Insight and Revelation
Sherlock Holmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked...
Pride and Prejudice / Class and Perception
They have at least that advantage.” “The country,” said Darcy, “can in general supply but few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood yo...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Decay and Observation
These articles, with two small wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Holmess Obsession
If you will keep the two corner seats I shall get the tickets.” We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of papers which Holmes had...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Diversity
As to the fauna, it might be counted by thousands of crustacea of all sorts, lobsters, crabs, spider-crabs, chameleon shrimps, and a large number of s...