1 But she was growing less sensitive on such points: a hard glaze of indifference was fast forming over her delicacies and susceptibilities, and each concession to expediency hardened the surface a little more.
2 After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency.
3 If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
4 He was never tired of looking at it, and even held a council with Eva on the expediency of getting it framed, to hang up in his room.
5 After talking a little more about Mansfield, a subject in which her interest was most apparent, Crawford began to hint at the expediency of an early walk.
6 The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary an example, took counsel together on the expediency of shipping off Oliver Twist, in some small trading vessel bound to a good unhealthy port.
7 It's merely a matter of expediency, you see, my girls will naturally take the lead, and this table is considered their proper place.
8 Association with the masters, missionary effort and motives of expediency gave these rites an early veneer of Christianity, and after the lapse of many generations the Negro church became Christian.
9 She had recourse to the expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 10 To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have adopted the expedient of smiling at them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT 11 He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 12 In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is but a poor expedient of civilization.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 13 An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim.
14 From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 15 The Magnon sought an expedient.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND