1 Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 2 But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary soldier, out of the question.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 3 He was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the priest of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 4 All contemporary social crimes have their origin in the partition of Poland.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 5 This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic hour amid the stormy hours of this century.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 6 He even followed, with dignified indifference, it is true, the development of contemporary literature; so a grown-up man who meets a procession of small boys in the street will sometimes walk after it.
7 The conversation turned on the contemporary gossip about those in power, in which most people see the chief interest of home politics.
8 A contemporary event seems to us to be indubitably the doing of all the known participants, but with a more remote event we already see its inevitable results which prevent our considering anything else possible.
9 He had been more her contemporary than Scarlett's and she had been devoted to him.
10 But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
11 Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 12 Her contemporaries, the young wives, mothers and widows, loved her because she had suffered what they had suffered, had not become embittered and always lent them a sympathetic ear.
13 The orator, or the politician, who can produce such a state of things, is commonly popular with his contemporaries, however he may be treated by posterity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 14 We can understand that the matter seemed like that to contemporaries.
15 But to the old countess those contemporaries of hers seemed to be the only serious and real society.