Sentence: He frequently paused for instance, placed his chin in the end of his halfclosed hand, somewhat like an egg in an eggcup, looked in a meditative mood into Purcel's face, without appearing to see him at all then went over to the library, which ought rather to have been pronounced his son's than his and after having consulted a booka Latin Horace, which by the way he opened at the art of poetry, of which volume it is, we presume, unnecessary to say, he did not understand a syllable, he returned to his desk seemingly satisfied, and wrote on until he had concluded the passage he was composing.
Combination: an egg in an eggcup (root: egg, modifier: eggcup)
Property: balanced
Property type: emergent