1 And, instead of turning her against him, it only made her more timidly gracious toward him because of her indignation at what she fancied was a gross injustice done him.
2 Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injustice.
3 The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.
4 I bent myself to devising ways and means for our escape, and meanwhile strove, on all fitting occasions, to impress them with the gross fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
5 I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect.
6 We see nothing of them, and this is really an instance of gross inattention.
7 Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 8 They reason thus because, blinded by the gross illusion of the flesh and the darkness of human understanding, they are unable to comprehend the hideous malice of mortal sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 9 The hair would lose its brightness, the mouth would gape or droop, would be foolish or gross, as the mouths of old men are.
10 It uses it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and summary fashion.
11 A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs and sold for sixty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY 12 The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...