“And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
Source: Madame Bovary
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“She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.”
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.”
Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
“She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.”
Source: The Prime Minister (1876), Ch. 5
“She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.”
Source: Cotillion
“Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!”
"I Knew a Woman," ll. 1 - 4
Words for the Wind (1958)
Context: I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
The Master to the Librarian, in Ch. 2 : The Idea of North
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)