1 The burning of Smolensk and its abandonment made an epoch in his life.
2 It would not take place because the commanders not merely all recognized the position to be impossible, but in their conversations were only discussing what would happen after its inevitable abandonment.
3 After the battle of Borodino the abandonment and burning of Moscow was as inevitable as the retreat of the army beyond Moscow without fighting.
4 Nine days after the abandonment of Moscow, a messenger from Kutuzov reached Petersburg with the official announcement of that event.
5 Before the news of the abandonment of Moscow had been received in Petersburg, a detailed plan of the whole campaign had been drawn up and sent to Kutuzov for his guidance.
6 After abandonment, straightened circumstances.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 7 Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not discouraged by the ancient monarchy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 8 Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 9 It serves those who deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 10 Thus, while contemplating the misfortune which threatened her and the abandonment in which she was left, she broke out into sobs and tears.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME 11 She had dropped sideways in Gerty's big arm-chair, her head buried where lately Selden's had leaned, in a beauty of abandonment that drove home to Gerty's aching senses the inevitableness of her own defeat.
12 The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.
13 It was even harder than he could have believed possible, to separate in his own conscience his abandonment by all his fellows from a baseless sense of shame and disgrace.
14 There was a spasmodic abandonment about it as if, in allowing herself to utter the sound the woman's brain had authorized what it could not regulate.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 15 Poor Cathy, frightened from her little romance, had been considerably sadder and duller since its abandonment; and her father insisted on her reading less, and taking more exercise.