1 Only Ashley and Rhett eluded her understanding and her control for they were both adults, and the elements of boyishness were lacking in them.
2 In such emergencies, Judy would usually have turned to Lily to fuse the discordant elements; and Miss Bart, assuming that such a service was expected of her, threw herself into it with her accustomed zeal.
3 She had learned the elements of the game from the Sam Clarks.
4 During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for the time the almost continual command of the drenched and dangerous deck, manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever addressed his mates.
5 If this be so, fancy the irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and destructive of all elements contributes.
6 The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the elements.
7 Rains and spray had damped it; sun and wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that hung so idly.
8 Rarely have I found any of their age, on whom nature has so freely bestowed the elements of psalmody; and surely, surely, there are none who neglect them more.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 9 To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise.
10 Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the material, world depend, had complained.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 11 The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI... 12 He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, to all appearance, incompatible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 13 A clash of principles resembles a clash of elements.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 14 A badly constituted grandeur in which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral element enters.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 15 Five years' sojourn between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed or dispersed the elements of fear.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET