1 To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
2 Such a society functions admirably in the large production of cheap automobiles, dollar watches, and safety razors.
3 It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through.
4 Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the peculiar functions of his office.
5 Gamut received his pitch-pipe with as strong an expression of pleasure as he believed compatible with the grave functions he exercised.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 6 Thus unequivocally called on to exercise the functions of his assumed character, Heyward was apprehensive that the smallest delay might prove dangerous.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 7 he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an inspector.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 8 Javert is an estimable man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but important functions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 9 It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the principal lodger, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who had let him the lodging on Christmas eve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN... 10 The most perplexing and least successful part of the Bureau's work lay in the exercise of its judicial functions.
11 I have met him many times since then, both at public functions and at his private residence in Princeton, and the more I see of him the more I admire him.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIV. 12 Very soon after reaching London we were flooded with invitations to attend all manner of social functions, and a great many invitations came to me asking that I deliver public addresses.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVI. 13 Again, everything on his estate is made to perform at least three or four different functions.
14 She did these things not under any external impulse as people in the full vigor of life do, when behind the purpose for which they strive that of exercising their functions remains unnoticed.
15 He advised my attending certain places in London, for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of explainer and director of all my studies.