1 Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by the passing stroller with the epithet: melancholy, the apparently objectless promenades of the dreamer.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS 2 Many might take for their device the epithet STRONG, which formed the second part of his motto, but very few gentlemen could lay claim to the FAITHFUL, which constituted the first.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 3 Bonacieux, addressing this epithet to her husband.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 18 LOVER AND HUSBAND 4 The epithet, as may be easily understood, resounded to the very bottom of d'Artagnan's heart.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE 5 We need hardly say that many of those who gave him this epithet repeated it because they had heard it, and did not even know what it meant.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 6 Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet.
7 Bestow not on me, Sir Knight," she said, "the epithet of noble.
8 Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield and, addressing him, again used the epithet "young man" that was connected in his memory with Prince Andrew.
9 That were impossible," returned the young man; "he called you by a thousand endearing epithets, that I may not presume to use, but to the justice of which, I can warmly testify.
10 They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.
11 This cold officer upon a monument, who dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be finer as a dead man, he thought.
12 The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.
13 The shop-boys in the neighbourhood had long been in the habit of branding Noah in the public streets, with the ignominious epithets of 'leathers,' 'charity,' and the like; and Noah had bourne them without reply.
14 The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and stormy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...