← I decided that "dim" was the mot juste for him. 🔊
← The dim man was now again approaching our table, and this time he made up his mind to pause in front of it. 🔊
← Wherever congregated the jeunes feroces of the arts, in whatever Soho restaurant they had just discovered, in whatever music-hall they were most frequently, there was Soames in the midst of them, or, rather, on the fringe of them, a dim, but inevitable, figure. 🔊
← Soames's handwriting was characteristically dim. 🔊
← After all, I reassured myself, London was a very large place, and one very dim figure might easily drop out of it unobserved, now especially, in the blinding glare of the near Jubilee. 🔊
← You wouldn't say so if you had ever seen him, and I assure you that in no period would Soames be anything but dim. 🔊