1 There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXI 2 She felt herself once more the alert and competent moulder of emergencies, and the remembrance of her power over Selden flushed her with sudden confidence.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 15 3 The Ford Garage and the Buick Garage, competent one-story brick and cement buildings opposite each other.
4 Bea was competent; there was no household labor except sewing and darning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bed-making.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER VII 5 And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 15. Chowder. 6 Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick. 7 I am alive, you see, and competent.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II 8 A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power, against whose approaches Munro possessed no competent means of resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 15 9 After this incident, and as he reviewed the battle pictures he had seen, he felt quite competent to return home and make the hearts of the people glow with stories of war.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 15 10 He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter XIX 11 Mr. Drummle," said I, "you are not competent to give advice on that subject.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter XLIII 12 With your branch of the subject, on which alone you are competent to speak, I should not think of interfering.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 13 She was very good and competent, and she soon knew how to have him in her power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 7 14 Give me the child of any healthy, normally intelligent man, and I will make a perfectly competent Chatterley of him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 13 15 Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education and average intelligence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XII