1 But it is women who are the calm realists once they discard the fetishes of the premarital hunt.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXI 2 You must discard the word Fancy altogether.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II 3 For this reason, many things had become superfluous which, although they could not be sold, the family did not wish to discard.
4 Other women's husbands you let severely alone, even if they were your own discarded beaux, and no matter how temptingly attractive they were.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 5 She always felt uneasy driving past this dirty, sordid cluster of discarded army tents and slave cabins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIV 6 She glanced tentatively at Selden's motionless profile, and resumed with a slight sigh: "Well, all I can say is, I wish she'd give ME some of her discarded opportunities."
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 1 7 The dooryard was of packed yellow clay, treeless, barren of grass, littered with rusty plowshares and wheels of discarded cultivators.
8 On her first evening in Gopher Prairie Cy had appeared at the head of a "charivari," banging immensely upon a discarded automobile fender.
9 They sat on a heap of discarded railroad ties, oak logs spotted with cinnamon-colored dry-rot and marked with metallic brown streaks where iron plates had rested.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 10 The ordinary stiff dining chairs had been discarded for the occasion and replaced by the most commodious and luxurious which could be collected throughout the house.
11 In short, every occupation was abandoned for the time, and all other pursuits seemed discarded in order that the tribe might freely indulge, after their own peculiar manner, in an open expression of feeling.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 28 12 He presently discarded all his speculations in the other direction.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 11 13 Tom's distress of mind wore off gradually and the toothache grew irksome and was discarded.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XI 14 But you have discarded your titles after the example set you by Messrs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit. 15 He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 6