1 Its light favored Blucher's ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the massacre.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 2 This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 3 It may be seen by these disastrous details that desolation reigned in the community.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS 4 The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love.
5 He was writing now a new chapter on the causes of the present disastrous condition of agriculture in Russia.
6 In that way, mostly, the disastrous encounter between Ahab and the whale had hitherto been popularly regarded.
7 The swirling body of blue men came to a sudden halt at close and disastrous range and roared a swift volley.
8 The child was sleeping soundly; but her imagination of possibly disastrous events at her home, the predominance within her of the unseen over the seen, agitated her beyond endurance.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 9 At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads 10 In any of these eventualities the flank march that brought salvation might have proved disastrous.
11 Nothing more stupid than that could have been devised, or more disastrous for the army, as the sequel showed.
12 The confused cry came to him borne in blind terror down the breeze, and his startled ears caught the echoing tumult and disastrous murmur of the town.
13 Dismay not my terrors, disastrous birds; I know these beating wings, and the sound of death, nor do I miss high-hearted Jove's haughty ordinance.
14 When, therefore, servants, and princes towards servants, are thus disposed, they can trust each other, but when it is otherwise, the end will always be disastrous for either one or the other.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXII — CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES 15 Hunger would interfere with me disastrously.