1 But that's my character: if I want a thing I'm willing to pay: I don't go up to the counter, and then wonder if the article's worth the price.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 15 2 She knew from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 3 As for Bildad, he carried about with him a long list of the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival, down went his mark opposite that article upon the paper.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 20. All Astir. 4 It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 32. Cetology. 5 He wrote a furious article, attacking the musical taste of the town, and asked me to do him a great service by taking it to the editor of the morning paper.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV 6 Jokubas had recently been reading a newspaper article which was full of statistics such as that, and he was very proud as he repeated them and made his guests cry out with wonder.
7 In the beginning he had been fresh and strong, and he had gotten a job the first day; but now he was second-hand, a damaged article, so to speak, and they did not want him.
8 But, alas, it was again the case of the honest merchant, who finds that the genuine and unadulterated article is driven to the wall by the artistic counterfeit.
9 The woman, more in terror than through love of the ornament, wrapped her child in the coveted article, and folded both more closely to her bosom.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 17 10 "Well, Tom's got the real article, if ever a fellow had," rejoined the other.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER I 11 "Now for the cake," said Mas'r George, when the activity of the griddle department had somewhat subsided; and, with that, the youngster flourished a large knife over the article in question.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER IV 12 He was listening, with a good-humored, negligent air, half comic, half contemptuous, to Haley, who was very volubly expatiating on the quality of the article for which they were bargaining.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XIV 13 The dealers in the human article make scrupulous and systematic efforts to promote noisy mirth among them, as a means of drowning reflection, and rendering them insensible to their condition.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 14 With a deadly sickness at her heart, she remembered how he had looked at Emmeline's hands, and lifted up her curly hair, and pronounced her a first-rate article.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 15 "Why, this article," I said, pointing at it with my egg spoon as I sat down to my breakfast.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION