1 It was the same conflicting emotion that made her desire to appear a delicate and high-bred lady with boys and to be, as well, a hoyden who was not above a few kisses.
2 With this backwash of wounded bearing conflicting reports and the increase of frightened refugees crowding into the already crowded town, Atlanta was in an uproar.
3 The Bureau was backed up by the soldiers and the military had issued many and conflicting orders governing the conduct of the conquered.
4 There was too great a tumult of conflicting ideas in her mind for her to sort them out.
5 She came out of her several conflicting poses, and said sincerely, "There's a new teacher, Miss Mullins, who might have some talent."
6 But among the conflicting sensations which assailed her, there was neither shame nor remorse.
7 The Huron chief, after casting the weapons he had wrested from his companions over the rock, drew his knife, and turned to his captive, with a look in which conflicting passions fiercely contended.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 8 Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his head.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 9 One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human faces; one's head has been in the light of the future.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY 10 The very violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it.
11 In order to make one's way amid these turbulent and conflicting waves, it was necessary to be an officer, a great noble, or a pretty woman.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 12 She longed to bid me hasten my return; a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.
13 Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 14 In the troubled waters of conflicting and intersecting intrigues that eddied about the Emperor's headquarters, it was possible to succeed in many ways unthinkable at other times.
15 Of late, since the Emperor's return from the army, there had been some excitement in these conflicting salon circles and some demonstrations of hostility to one another, but each camp retained its own tendency.