1 The spire of Bolney Minster, Rough Norton woods, and on an eminence rather to the left, Hogben's Folly, so called because.
2 Reason surveyed this domestic scene from her lofty eminence unmoved.
3 No one could wish to know it better than a lady of your eminence does.
4 He did not turn aside to the cottage, but pushed on to an eminence, whence he could see over the whole quarter that had once been Eustacia's home.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 5 His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In III. THE RECOGNITION 6 And yet the men of civil eminence, who came immediately behind the military escort, were better worth a thoughtful observer's eye.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 7 I am the umble instrument of umbly serving him, and he puts me on an eminence I hardly could have hoped to reach.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 8 Every career has its aspirants, who form a train for those who have attained eminence in it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 9 He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet bearing the inscription Ancient Barrier No.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 10 He plunged deeper into the woods and came to a sort of eminence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS... 11 They had no realization of what her life had been before she reached her present safe eminence in her mansion on Peachtree Street.
12 After descending an eminence to a low bottom, through which a swift stream glided, they suddenly came to a place where the party of Le Renard had made a halt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 13 de Villefort held a high position in the magistracy, and maintained his eminence like a Harlay or a Mole.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 48. Ideology. 14 I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
15 He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye.