1 But it is this gloom which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dissipate.
2 I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries.
3 As my sickness quitted me, I was absorbed by a gloomy and black melancholy that nothing could dissipate.
4 What it was she did not know but she listened desperately, her eyes on his brown face, hoping to hear words that would dissipate her fears.
5 To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 6 For that matter, Pietukh might well have been ruined already, for hospitality can dissipate a fortune in three months as easily as it can in three years.
7 A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the brazier.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE 8 It seemed to him that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered it more funereal and more black.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 9 If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 10 In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a "divining-rod," "dissipating witch spells," and so on.
11 I foresaw," said Martin to Candide, "that your presents would soon be dissipated, and only make them the more miserable.
12 All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY 13 There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, the great cavern of evil.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 14 He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or two, anxieties of another nature had come up.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN 15 Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme Arme when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER