1 But the bird, like many other philosophers, seemed as he looked at the reddleman to think that a present moment of comfortable reality was worth a decade of memories.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 2 It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles 3 In normal cases one can place a man in his true decade with tolerable confidence.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 4 Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 7 5 Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 7 6 Ellen finished and Gerald, who could never find his beads at prayer time, began furtively counting his decade on his fingers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IV 7 Hastily she began her decade, telling off the beads automatically but with a depth of emotion in her voice that caused Mammy to open her eyes and shoot a searching glance at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IV 8 In a single decade the cotton output increased four-fold and the value of lands was tripled.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VII 9 As she finished her prayers and Suellen, then Carreen, began their decades, her mind was still speeding onward with her entrancing new thought.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IV 10 Three decades ago, Dr. Westlake, Julius Flickerbaugh the lawyer, Merriman Peedy the Congregational pastor and himself had been the arbiters.
11 In rough approximation we may point out four varying decades of work in Southern education since the Civil War.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VI 12 First, it became almost entirely Baptist and Methodist in faith; secondly, as a social institution it antedated by many decades the monogamic Negro home.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In X 13 I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure.
14 At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity.
15 In the unholy crimson glow that bathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXIII