( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Wait a minute,' said the stranger, 'fun presently--nobs not comeyet--queer place--dockyard people of upper rank don't know dockyardpeople of lower rank--dockyard people of lower rank don't know smallgentry--small gentry don't know tradespeople--commissioner don't knowanybody.
Regularlyevery Sunday, morning and afternoon, she occupied the same seat with theboy at her side; and though they were both poorly dressed--much moreso than many of their neighbours who were in a lower station--they werealways neat and clean.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The morning came: it was a pleasant sight to behold Mr. Tupman in fullbrigand's costume, with a very tight jacket, sitting like a pincushionover his back and shoulders, the upper portion of his legs incased inthe velvet shorts, and the lower part thereof swathed in the complicatedbandages to which all brigands are peculiarly attached.
The occupants of this seat areinvisible to the great body of spectators, inasmuch as they sit on amuch lower level than either the barristers or the audience, whose seatsare raised above the floor.
Ah! well, well! Excuse my asking the question, Mr. Samuel,' continuedthe attorney in a lower voice, 'was your mother-in-law tall?Not wery,' replied Sam.
It was dusk turningto dark; and as all that mountain air sharpens suddenly after sunset, asmall stove stood on the flagstones, glowing with red eyes like agoblin, and painting a red pattern on the pavement; but scarcely a rayof it reached the lower bricks of the great bare, brown brick wall thatwent soaring up above them into the deep blue night.
The red flame seemed to hold his eyes and absorb his gaze thatsank deeper and deeper into it, as if that single cup held a red sea ofthe blood of all men, and his soul were a diver, ever plunging in darkhumility and inverted imagination, lower than its lowest monsters andits most ancient slime.
"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "It is lower a little farther on," said Underhill, "and there seems tobe a tree that looks helpful.