The Little Dorrit, trembling on his arm, was less in
unison than ever with Mrs Chivery's theory, and yet was not irreconcilable with a new fancy which sprung up within him, that there might be some one else in the hopeless--newer fancy still--in the hopeless unattainable distance.
For ten minutes or more they kept up their monotonous chant and steps, and then suddenly, and in perfect
unison, they turned toward their victim with upraised bludgeons and emitting fearful howls, the while they contorted their features into the most diabolical expressions, they rushed upon him.
The evening, I remember, was still and cloudy; the London air was at its heaviest; the distant hum of the street-traffic was at its faintest; the small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in
unison, languidly and more languidly, with the sinking sun.
We could see them lift their feet and put them down; we saw them swing their alpenstocks forward in
unison, like so many pendulums, and then bear their weight upon them; we saw the lady wave her handkerchief.
They moved slowly, in
unison, below us, over the lawn, the boy, as they went, reading aloud from a storybook and passing his arm round his sister to keep her quite in touch.
For such particulars, stated on such authority, Elinor could not withhold her credit; nor was she disposed to it, for the circumstance was in perfect
unison with what she had heard and seen herself.