1 I foresaw," said Martin to Candide, "that your presents would soon be dissipated, and only make them the more miserable.
2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in Marius' mind were dissipated.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM... 7 Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity of realities.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK 8 I dressed myself as quickly as possible; my slow and stiff motions all attested that the effects of the narcotic were not yet entirely dissipated.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 9 Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.
10 His character is now before you; expensive, dissipated, and worse than both.
11 Then, the two nurses left the room, and had a lively scuffle on the staircase with a dissipated page who had waited at dinner, and who had clearly lost half his buttons at the gaming-table.
12 You are a dissipated fellow, as all the world knows,' he said, with an effort at a smile, 'and I am afraid you'll oblige me to get rid of you.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION 13 He felt that all his forces, hitherto dissipated, wasted, were centered on one thing, and bent with fearful energy on one blissful goal.
14 The Countess Lidia Ivanovna had, as a very young and sentimental girl, been married to a wealthy man of high rank, an extremely good-natured, jovial, and extremely dissipated rake.
15 Yet, while cementing such friendships for all eternity, almost always they begin quarrelling the same evening, since, throughout, they are a loquacious, dissipated, high-spirited, over-showy tribe.