1 She had little interest in the legislature, feeling that its doings could hardly affect her.
2 She was seeing only one side--how this slap in the Yankees' faces might affect her.
3 Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.
4 All these things are carefully avoided by the young, most of whom have learned to speak English and to affect the latest style of clothing.
5 Even the tricks and cruelties he saw at Durham's had little meaning for him just then, save as they might happen to affect his future with Ona.
6 It seemed as if fatigue could not affect him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 7 But it was not the policy of Hawkeye to affect the least concealment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 8 It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him.
9 I then presented an appearance enough to affect any but a heart of iron.
10 I told him all the circumstances as well as I could, and it seemed, as I spoke, at times to affect him.
11 He did not understand the words, of course; but the music and manner of singing appeared to affect him strongly, especially when St. Clare sang the more pathetic parts.
12 Short was the time, however, in which that fear could affect her, for within half an hour after Willoughby's leaving the house, she was again called down stairs by the sound of another carriage.
13 Never to put one hand to anything, on which I could throw my whole self; and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was; I find, now, to have been my golden rules.
14 The first onslaught of jealousy, once lived through, could never come back again, and even the discovery of infidelities could never now affect her as it had the first time.
15 Levin felt so resolute and serene that no answer, he fancied, could affect him.