1 She had time to take a fresh survey of her wretchedness, and to fluctuate anew between the impulse to confide in Selden and the dread of destroying his illusions.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 15 2 It had as many ramifications as the Cretan labyrinth, as many fluctuations as the northern lights, as much colour as a parterre in June, and was as crowded with figures as a coronation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 3 Apart from motions, a complete diorama of the fluctuations of the game went on in their eyes.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current 4 Past now the bleeding of earthly regrets; past its fluctuations of hope, and fear, and desire; the human will, bent, and bleeding, and struggling long, was now entirely merged in the Divine.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 5 His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was certainly mingled some struggle.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED 6 It is a crop always salable for ready money, not usually subject to great yearly fluctuations in price, and one which the Negroes know how to raise.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VIII 7 But her temper was fluctuating; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and reverie.
8 I think that voice held him most with its fluctuating, feverish warmth because it couldn't be over-dreamed--that voice was a deathless song.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 5 9 Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER 50 10 Whilst she abstractedly watched them spinning and fluctuating in the increasing moonlight she suddenly heard her name whispered by a voice over her shoulder.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 11 The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed.
12 But the Judge had a most discouraging way of fluctuating.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXII 13 Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 46 14 There were three different conclusions to be drawn from his silence, between which her mind was in fluctuation; each of them at times being held the most probable.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XLI 15 She remained sitting, though the fluctuation in her look might have told any man who knew her so well as Wildeve that she was thinking of him.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil