Quotes of 100 Common words from Classic

This was the young man whom his mother and sister called to their aid to sustain them under the serious trial which they felt they would soon have to endure.

In the passage she saw a retreating shadow; it was Julie, who, uneasy herself, had anticipated her mother.

Yet, through a singular impulse, it was neither to her mother nor her brother that she applied, but to Emmanuel.

Go to work, labor, young man, struggle ardently and courageously; live, yourself, your mother and sister, with the most rigid economy, so that from day to day the property of those whom I leave in your hands may augment and fructify.

This costume is a fancy one, it appears, and the resemblance is so great that I think I still see my mother the same as she was in 1830.

The picture seems to have a malign influence, for my mother rarely comes here without looking at it, and still more rarely does she look at it without weeping.

As she had a loose muslin dress on and as nothing concealed her figure, I saw she would ere long become a mother.

What though she has lost her own mother at a tender age, she has had the happiness to find a second mother in Madame de Villefort.

Oh, if my mother were still living, there would be nothing to fear, Maximilian, for I would tell her that I loved you, and she would protect us.

Valentine, whom we have in the rapid march of our narrative presented to our readers without formally introducing her, was a tall and graceful girl of nineteen, with bright chestnut hair, deep blue eyes, and that reposeful air of quiet distinction which characterized her mother.

In that case your mother would hold me in aversion, and I do not at all wish that; on the contrary, I desire to stand high in her esteem.

My brother Edward, who inherits nothing from his mother, will, therefore, be poor in comparison with me.