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1) In diction, dialect and style it is obviously dependent upon Homer, and is therefore considerably later than the "Iliad" and "Odyssey": moreover, as we have seen, it is in revolt against the romantic school, already grown decadent, and while the digamma is still living, it is obviously growing weak, and is by no means uniformly effective.

I pictured their lives, troubled by no untoward adventure, honest, decent, and, by reason of those two upstanding, pleasant children, so obviously destined to carry on the normal traditions of their race and station, not without significance.

Plots are either Simple or Complex, for the actions in real life, of which the plots are an imitation, obviously show a similar distinction.

This authoritative text is reprinted from the Library of America edition of Novels by Edith Wharton, and is based on the sixth impression of the first edition, which incorporates the last set of extensive revisions that are obviously authorial.

His own strategic plan, which obviously could not now be carried out, was forgotten.

Stereotyped as the phrase was, Madame Karenina obviously believed it and was delighted by it.

With a firm, steady-eyed impudence, which seemed to hold back the threat of some abominable menace, he would proceed to sell over the counter some object looking obviously and scandalously not worth the money which passed in the transaction: a small cardboard box with apparently nothing inside, for instance, or one of those carefully closed yellow flimsy envelopes, or a soiled volume in paper covers with a promising title.

He was smoking a cigar in a mechanical sort of way, but he obviously derived no pleasure from it.

The man had something strapped on his back and carried a heavy stick-- obviously an itinerant peddler.

It had, however, broad maculations of bluish black, obviously caused by extravasated blood from contusions.