1 It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper.
2 It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 3 Lily had such an air of always getting what she wanted that she was used to being appealed to as an intermediary, and, relieved of her vague apprehension, she took refuge in the conventional formula.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 9 4 The agent was most polite, and explained that that was the usual formula; that it was always arranged that the property should be merely rented.
5 He wondered how they could remember its formula in the midst of confusion.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 5 6 Their vague feminine formula for beloved ones doing brave deeds on the field of battle without risk of life would be destroyed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 15 7 The other squires repeated nearly the same formula, and then stood to await the decision of the Disinherited Knight.
8 We drive ourselves with a formula, like a machine.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 4 9 This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the formula alone varies.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 10 The monastery is the product of the formula: Equality, Fraternity.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL... 11 I think he was swearing, but am not certain; however, he was pronouncing some formula which prevented him from replying to me directly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XII 12 The formula which he wrote obediently on the sheet of paper, the coiling and uncoiling calculations of the professor, the spectre-like symbols of force and velocity fascinated and jaded Stephen's mind.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceGet Context In Chapter 5 13 Nevertheless, in the later days of the republic the Romans were wont to entrust this power to a consul instead of to a dictator, using the formula, Videat CONSUL ne quid respublica detrimenti capiat.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.