1 After what seemed an eternity of waiting, she heard the sound of his boots in the bedroom above and the door opening and closing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XV 2 For an eternity, it seemed, they were in the midst of flaming torment and then abruptly they were in semidarkness again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXIII 3 For an eternity she reeled and coughed, beating the rug against the lines of fire that shot swiftly beyond her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXVII 4 For another eternity they fought and swayed, side by side, and Scarlett could see that the lines of fire were shortening.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXVII 5 You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER LIII 6 The rest telephoned their unparalleled regrets and engagements and illnesses, and announced that they would be present at all other meetings through eternity.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 7 He raised his head, jerkily rubbed his eyes, and went back to the eternity of figures.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 8 That to attempt it, would be inevitably to be torn into a quick eternity.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick. 9 There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness mechanical.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 119. The Candles. 10 The race thus outraged must find out the facts of this awful hurling of men into eternity on supposition, and give them to the indifferent and apathetic country.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-BarnettGet Context In VII 11 He closed his eyes, but still retained his hold; for, in the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 12 Tom's whole soul was filled with thoughts of eternity; and while he ministered around the lifeless clay, he did not once think that the sudden stroke had left him in hopeless slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 13 It seems as though man's lodging partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 14 The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME 15 It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN