1 To keep the peace, was an increase of complication.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 2 When facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, the slightest complication stops and entangles them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS 3 Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church produce some complication.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 4 After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead.
5 He thought not of his wife, but of a complication that had arisen in his official life, which at the time constituted the chief interest of it.
6 Her first movement was one of annoyance: this unforeseen act of Selden's added another complication to life.
7 He was neither a peasant tailor, a potential artist, a social complication, nor a peril.
8 He and Mr. Elsing are under arrest for complicity in a Klan raid at Shantytown tonight.
9 On the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball's complicity with Jones.
10 There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene.
11 He had, or thought that he had, a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC... 12 been arrested and tortured for his alleged complicity in the.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HA... 13 Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cog-wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive.
14 Meanwhile, through the agency of Whymper, Napoleon was engaged in complicated negotiations with Frederick and Pilkington.
15 By this difficult and complicated entrance, the good King Richard, followed by his faithful Ivanhoe, was ushered into the round apartment which occupies the whole of the third story from the ground.