1 He imagined, and calmly could he imagine it, that her extravagance, and consequent distress, had obliged her to dispose of it for some immediate relief.
2 But there was a calm, a rest, a virtuous hush, consequent on these examinations of our affairs that gave me, for the time, an admirable opinion of myself.
3 And I had heard of the death of her husband, from an accident consequent on his ill-treatment of a horse.
4 She's at school, sir,' said Mr. Peggotty, wiping the heat consequent on the porterage of Peggotty's box from his forehead; 'she'll be home,' looking at the Dutch clock, 'in from twenty minutes to half-an-hour's time.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 5 These were, I shortly found, connected almost solely with the dusty nature of the job, and of the consequent thirst engendered in the operators.
6 After the involuntary shrinking consequent on the first nauseous whiff, we one and all set about our work as though that loathsome place were a garden of roses.
7 d'Avrigny to superintend all the arrangements consequent upon a death in a large city, more especially a death under such suspicious circumstances.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 103. Maximilian. 8 It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations.
9 They arose from the unsettling of the minds of the masses, and the consequent weakening of all authority.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO 10 The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness.
11 Certainly these figures show the small amount of accumulated capital among the Negroes, and the consequent large dependence of their property on temporary prosperity.
12 He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, and, consequently, nothing was lost.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 13 Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 14 Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, and consequently, without interference.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 15 For our parts, we reject this word uprisings as too large, and consequently as too convenient.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION