1 The care which he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS 2 And as if he only felt strength to detach himself by a violent effort from the hand he held, he sprang away, running, while Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 3 He drew back a step, and hung down his head, without, however, ceasing to look at her, as if, fascinated by this strange creature, he could not detach his eyes from her eyes.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY 4 Then the figure, from whom she could not detach her eyes, and who appeared more protecting than menacing, took the glass, and walking towards the night-light held it up, as if to test its transparency.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 100. The Apparition. 5 We were seated by the fire, as just now described, and Miss Havisham still had Estella's arm drawn through her own, and still clutched Estella's hand in hers, when Estella gradually began to detach herself.
6 The moment she could detach herself from that interview with the person of whom you speak, and whom I deeply regret to have been the means of introducing to you, Louisa hurried here, for protection.
7 As her young brown head detached itself against the patch-work cushion that habitually framed his wife's gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock.
8 Swiftly, he dropped the hat to the floor and, reaching up, detached her arms from his neck.
9 From the group one man detached himself and looked toward her.
10 But what especially struck him was the way in which she detached herself, by a hundred undefinable shades, from the persons who most abounded in her own style.
11 The baby, feeling herself detached from her habitual anchorage, made an instinctive motion of resistance; but the soothing influences of digestion prevailed, and Lily felt the soft weight sink trustfully against her breast.
12 One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation.
13 But after detached brown years in boarding-houses, Vida was hungry for housework, for the most pottering detail of it.
14 Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
15 Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapour they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.