1 In the agitation caused by the gravity of her announcement he sought a consolatory short cut.
2 "On the happy occasion of the announcement of your betrothal," he finished, bending over her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 3 So the tumult of gossip, surmise and deep suspicion which followed the announcement of his quiet wedding to Scarlett was not surprising.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVI 4 Before the announcement of their coming marriage, the two had been unpopular enough but people could still be polite to them in a formal way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLVII 5 This information on top of the horror of his announcement took her breath away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER LXI 6 While Gerty was lost in the happy bustle which this announcement produced in her small household, Selden was at one with her in thinking with intensity of Lily Bart.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 14 7 Miss Bart made this announcement in the tone of one who presents, with careless assurance, a complete vindication; but Mrs. Fisher received it in a manner almost inconsequent.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 2 8 She paused again to measure the effect of this announcement on her hearer, but the brush in Miss Bart's lifted hand maintained its unwavering stroke from brow to nape.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 6 9 Rosedale, reddening to the roots of his glossy hair, received this announcement with a recoil which carried him to his feet, where he halted before her in an attitude of almost comic discomfiture.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 7 10 Living in Minneapolis, Carol had never encountered the ambulant Chautauqua, and the announcement of its coming to Gopher Prairie gave her hope that others might be doing the vague things which she had attempted.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 11 A certain degree of ceremony settled upon them with the announcement of dinner.
12 Then he made a calm announcement: "There's two of 'em--little ones--but they 're beginnin' t' have fun with me now."
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 10 13 The conversation was here interrupted by the announcement of some visitors.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 14 When Colin was on his sofa and the breakfast for two was put upon the table he made an announcement to the nurse in his most Rajah-like manner.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson BurnettGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 15 Noirtier and the elder d'Epinay, well understood the agitation and anger which the announcement had produced; but, feigning not to perceive either, he immediately resumed the narrative begun by his wife.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.