1 The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors constitute the only variety in convents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 2 His tendency, and we say it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic taste.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 3 The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI... 4 They constitute two different orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always interlaced, and which often bring forth results.
5 This agony and this immortality are about to join and constitute our death.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O... 6 A platoon of the National Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 7 In the meanwhile, how disheartening to see the woman one loves long for those thousands of nothings which constitute a woman's happiness, and be unable to give her those thousands of nothings.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 8 He would not have believed that two sentiments so opposite could dwell in the same heart, and by their union constitute a passion so strange, and as it were, diabolical.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID 9 But the meal did not constitute by any means the best of which Chichikov had ever partaken, seeing that some of the dishes were overcooked, and others were scarcely cooked at all.
10 Also, such crowds of feminine shoppers began to repair to the Bazaar as almost to constitute a crush, and something like a procession of carriages ensued, so long grew the rank of vehicles.
11 Every one of them had made up her mind to use upon him her every weapon, and to exhibit whatsoever might chance to constitute her best point.
12 At the present moment the master of the house was engaged in giving the cook orders for what, under the guise of an early breakfast, promised to constitute a veritable dinner.
13 My whole idea is that if vicious people are united and constitute a power, then honest folk must do the same.
14 These are things which may swell your strength but do not constitute it, being in themselves null and of no avail without an army on which you can depend.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. 15 Once more, therefore, I repeat that not gold but good soldiers constitute the sinews of war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.