1 Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.
2 I became imbued with the notion on that first occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what means.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter XXII 3 From that night there grew up in my breast a feeling for Peggotty which I cannot very well define.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 4 The commencement of the tuberculous process we are not, as you are aware, able to define; till there are cavities, there is nothing definite.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 2: Chapter 1 5 His chief object, to define the position with the least amount of disturbance possible, would not be attained by divorce either.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 3: Chapter 13 6 But Vronsky felt that now especially it was essential for him to clear up and define his position if he were to avoid getting into difficulties.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 3: Chapter 19 7 But she saw him not from without, but from within; she saw that here he was not himself; that was the only way she could define his condition to herself.
Anna Karenina(V3) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 7: Chapter 1 8 As to the nature of Selden's growing kindness, Gerty would no more have dared to define it than she would have tried to learn a butterfly's colours by knocking the dust from its wings.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 14 9 Easy, pleasant, lucrative home-work for wives: asking people to define their jobs.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 10 With that view, let me learnedly define it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 53. The Gam. 11 I never tried to define it, but I was distinctly conscious of it.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI 12 It would have been a difficult matter for Mr. Pontellier to define to his own satisfaction or any one else's wherein his wife failed in her duty toward their children.
13 If I answer that question, I know you'll be at me with half a dozen others, each one harder than the last; and I'm not a going to define my position.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XVI 14 How such a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV 15 Only then, expressing known historic facts by equations and comparing the relative significance of this factor, can we hope to define the unknown.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II