1 Women of a certain grade are like prosperous grisettes in one respect, they seldom return home after twelve o'clock.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 99. The Law. 2 She was not above selling a poor grade of lumber for the price of good lumber if she thought she would not be detected, and she had no scruples about black-guarding the other lumber dealers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 3 I don't think it would exonerate him, either with them, or with legal functionaries of a higher grade.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER XXXI 4 The indelicate clacking of the men's heels and the shuffling of their soles reminded him that their grade of culture differed from his.
5 The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on him.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII 6 In the living-room Vida and Kennicott debated "the value of manual training in grades below the eighth," while Carol sat beside Guy at the dining table, buttering pop-corn.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XVI 7 They put these up in several grades, and sold them at several prices; but the contents of the cans all came out of the same hopper.
8 All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In IX 9 No student, I think, who has had the opportunity of doing this could go out into the world and content himself with the poorest grades.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter IV. 10 He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) ShelleyGet Context In Chapter 2 11 The only things of real value are honest personal contacts, contacts with higher officials, albeit higher officials of the lower grades, you understand.
The Trial By Franz KafkaGet Context In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter 12 It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend. 13 Then the old fence near the bootmaker's must be pulled down at once and a post stuck up with a whisp of straw so as to look like grading.
The Inspector-General By Nicolay GogolGet Context In ACT I