Literary notes about pattern (AI summary)
In literature, "pattern" functions as a multifaceted term that can denote both a literal arrangement and a metaphorical ideal. It serves as a blueprint in practical contexts—guiding the construction of objects or garments [1, 2, 3]—and is also evoked to represent a standard of behavior or an ideal to be emulated [4, 5, 6, 7]. Authors extend its use to describe recurring designs in nature and art, as well as to hint at the underlying order of society and the cosmos [8, 9, 10]. Whether outlining the structural details of a crafted object [11, 12] or suggesting a pattern of character traits and ethical conduct [13, 14, 15], the term enriches narrative layers by linking physical design with deeper, abstract principles.
- It was simply a squat earthenware pot with an upper, movable, strainer part made of tin, after the French drip pot pattern.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - I want that pattern to cut out your new apron this evening.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - Consequently, according to the pattern, a greater or less number of supplementary threads have to be knotted in so as to form the corners.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - But I pass by these and many others to mention two books lately published, which represent an admirable pattern of the amiable in either sex.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding - But few now living can behold that goodness- A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - To all the rest I shall serve as a pattern of resignation to fate and the will of Providence.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Tom’s whole class were of a pattern—restless, noisy, and troublesome.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain - The visible, which already exists, is fashioned in the likeness of this eternal pattern.
— from Timaeus by Plato - Why should the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, in each flower, though fitted for such distinct purposes, be all constructed on the same pattern?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - For the idea or pattern of the world is not the thought of God, but a separate, self-existent nature, of which creation is the copy.
— from Timaeus by Plato - Notable is the "gentleman's tool chest" (fig. 49) advertised in the pattern book of the Castle Hill Works.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh - As soon as you have fixed the lines of the pattern by drawing them over with ink, it is ready for use.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie - ‘You don’t regret?’ ‘N—n—no,’ said Kate timidly, tracing some pattern upon the ground with her little foot.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - The bird in a forest can perch but on one bough, And this should be the wise man’s pattern.
— from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems - He follows the divine archetypal pattern.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
