1 The badly employed are those which, notwithstanding they may be few in the commencement, multiply with time rather than decrease.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VIII — CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINC... 2 Some had the feeling that in proportion as the Negro received education, in the same proportion would his value decrease as an economic factor in the state.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VIII. 3 She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love.
4 And spurring see decrease the middle space.
5 The chief cause of the wastage of Napoleon's army was the rapidity of its movement, and a convincing proof of this is the corresponding decrease of the Russian army.
6 The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 7 As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's charge is decreased.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 8 His strength, which was prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, nevertheless.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS 9 Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS 10 Your Royal Highness must be improving considerably," said the shadow, "I know your complaint is, that you see too clearly, but it has decreased, you are cured.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHADOW 11 This postscript decreased greatly the young girl's happiness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 12 The heat of the day had gradually decreased, and a light breeze arose, seeming like the respiration of nature on awakening from the burning siesta of the south.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 13 Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
14 Lands gone out of cultivation, overgrown with weeds, or divided among the peasants, and where millions of bushels were raised you get a hundred thousand; the wealth of the country has decreased.
15 All the shallower ponds had decreased to a vaporous mud amid which the maggoty shapes of innumerable obscure creatures could be indistinctly seen, heaving and wallowing with enjoyment.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath