1 Candide being desirous of selecting from among the best, marked out about one-twentieth of them who seemed to be sociable men, and who all pretended to merit his preference.
2 He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 3 Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY 4 One is afraid to glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 5 Even at that time any one who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 6 If we are to credit the monk Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV... 7 Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous of playing with him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 8 They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 9 The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures.
10 In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled Horace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 11 Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 12 The troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of fighting.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 13 It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 14 One would have said that, while desirous of reaching his destination, he feared the moment when he should be close at hand.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION 15 Nevertheless, d'Artagnan was desirous of examining the appearance of this impertinent personage who ridiculed him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER