1 Only Mammy's implacable face forced her to it.
2 These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.
3 But not the women of the Old Guard, and the women were the implacable and inflexible power behind the social throne.
4 Lily hesitated: her aunt's implacable memory had never been more inconvenient.
5 So saying the honest but implacable scout made the circuit of the dead, into whose senseless bosoms he thrust his long knife, with as much coolness as though they had been so many brute carcasses.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 6 It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 7 The burden is implacable, and remains the same for the few as for the many.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 8 His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C... 9 He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable and definitive decision might have sprung.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 10 She felt that a powerful and implacable hand seized her by the hair, and dragged her away as irrevocably as fatality drags humanity.
11 He renewed against Danglars, Fernand, and Villefort the oath of implacable vengeance he had made in his dungeon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 12 Excuse me," said the implacable young girl, "Monsieur Albert claims and well deserves his share.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 93. Valentine. 13 The young man's implacable eyes interrogated Villefort, who, on his side, glanced from Noirtier to d'Avrigny.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 103. Maximilian. 14 The president called for the indictment, revised as we know, by the clever and implacable pen of Villefort.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 110. The Indictment. 15 The implacable faces of his employer and of the Madam stared upon his discomfiture.