1 "They've flatly refused to ratify the amendment," said Grandpa Merriwether and there was pride in his voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 2 "It's the amendment letting the darkies vote, you know," he explained.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 3 As Ashley had prophesied, there had been hell to pay since the legislature refused to ratify the amendment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIV 4 Mrs. Rushworth proposed that the chaise should be taken also; but this was scarcely received as an amendment: the young ladies neither smiled nor spoke.
5 Tom's amendment was alarmingly slow.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XLV 6 Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 7 The next day produced little or no alteration in the state of the patient; she certainly was not better, and, except that there was no amendment, did not appear worse.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER 43 8 Her breath, her skin, her lips, all flattered Elinor with signs of amendment; and Marianne fixed her eyes on her with a rational, though languid, gaze.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER 43 9 In spite of this amendment, however, she requested to have a note sent to Longbourn, desiring her mother to visit Jane, and form her own judgement of her situation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 9 10 We shall cheer her sorrows," said Prince John, "and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
11 Arriving at the conclusion that it certainly was, he turned his back upon the scenes of the past, resolved to amend it in some new sphere of action.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER LIII 12 I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.
13 Gladly will I do as you wish, since for many a day past have I been longing to amend my life, and to engage in husbandry, and to reorder my affairs.
Dead Souls By Nikolai GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER IV 14 They are hardly to be prevailed with to amend the acknowledged faults in the frame they have been accustomed to.
Second Treatise of Government By John LockeGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 15 But perhaps the abuse of such people as yourself and Marianne will make amends for the regard of Lady Middleton and her mother.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER 10