1 Mammy was black, but her code of conduct and her sense of pride were as high as or higher than those of her owners.
2 But after all, according to the Continental code of etiquette, it's very bad form for husband and wife to love each other.
3 These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.
4 Between them, Scarlett and Rhett had outraged every tenet of this code.
5 Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. 6 But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. 7 The word came by long-distance telephone in a cipher code, just a little while before each race; and any man who could get the secret had as good as a fortune.
8 I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me.
9 Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
10 This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE 11 In truth, nothing short of a total change of dynasty and moral code, in that interior kingdom, was adequate to account for the impulses now communicated to the unfortunate and startled minister.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE 12 It was clearly and precisely defined in the code of principles by which he was guided.
13 And he felt that this fact and what she expected of him called for something not fully defined in that code of principles by which he had hitherto steered his course in life.
14 This case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of five years, two of them in the double chain.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 15 They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, which is puerile and honest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH