1 But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable alluvial deposit.
2 Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her rivers.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 3 As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 4 It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 5 This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that deposit.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 6 He alone was in the secret of that deposit.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 7 Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 8 The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a crust of metallic deposit all over it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 9 He was all right, as far as money went, but in his deposit he had given her what looked like a bad florin.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 10 That deposit may be at any moment withdrawn, and if I had employed it for another purpose, I should bring on me a disgraceful bankruptcy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter. 11 I may argue within myself, that if I had a deposit at a banking-house, the manners of Mr. Micawber, as representing that banking-house, would inspire confidence, and must extend the connexion.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET 12 But there remained in her thoughts a settled deposit of resentment against her niece, all the denser because it was not to be cleared by explanation or discussion.
13 The cabbage began to deposit a cold white grease on his plate.
14 Rhett rose swiftly, deposited Wade in Fanny's lap, and went into the parlor.
15 And Frank had deposited it in the bank in his own name, so now she could not even hire a rig.