1 I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present, will furnish much either to interest or edify me.
2 It is possible," said Morcerf; "my father has in his study a genealogical tree which will tell you all that, and on which I made commentaries that would have greatly edified Hozier and Jaucourt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 3 There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE 4 This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor's ball.
5 She said the count had died as she would herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying.
6 He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them.
7 The sound of our pens going refreshed us exceedingly, insomuch that I sometimes found it difficult to distinguish between this edifying business proceeding and actually paying the money.
8 Topsy was cited, and had up before all the domestic judicatories, time and again; but always sustained her examinations with most edifying innocence and gravity of appearance.
9 But peasants from the neighbouring country were not refused admittance; for it was the pride of Beaumanoir to render the edifying spectacle of the justice which he administered as public as possible.
10 He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs.