1 She had little interest in the legislature, feeling that its doings could hardly affect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 2 She was seeing only one side--how this slap in the Yankees' faces might affect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 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.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 53. The Gam. 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 CooperGet Context 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 CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 26 8 It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER I 9 I then presented an appearance enough to affect any but a heart of iron.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 10 I told him all the circumstances as well as I could, and it seemed, as I spoke, at times to affect him.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 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.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER 45 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.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF 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.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 2: Chapter 2 15 Levin felt so resolute and serene that no answer, he fancied, could affect him.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 2: Chapter 15