“He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.”
Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 14
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Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (pp. 3-4)
Context: It was like no hell or heaven of which he had ever heard or read, and he had thought that he was acquainted with every theory of the afterlife.
He had died. Now he was alive. He had scoffed all his life at a life-after-death. For once, he could not deny that he had been wrong. But there was no one present to say, "I told you so, you damned infidel!"
Of all the millions, he alone was awake.
“He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.”
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On Charley Warmergran, the Fire Chief of Rosewater.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
“He had a face like a benediction.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 6.
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 2 (p. 58)
