1 We started off for the cab together, leaving our informant incredulous, but obviously uncomfortable.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 2 He looked at his informant for full a quarter of a minute, and appeared to have the surprise in his mind all the time.
3 I only repeat what I have been told, and like my informant I can do no more.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 109. The Assizes. 4 I did not wish to seem too eager, or to let my informant know or guess too much, so, thanking him in the usual manner, I strolled away.
5 When with due circumspection Napoleon was informed that Moscow was empty, he looked angrily at his informant, turned away, and silently continued to walk to and fro.
6 The first I shall mention, relates to informers.
7 Now you talk against the Irish informers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 8 For the one discouraged informers and gave heart to those who were disposed to conspire, the other prepared an easy road to his own death, or rather was prime mover in a conspiracy against himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 9 I was informed that the very religious Knights of Malta never fail to make this search when they take any Turkish prisoners of either sex.
10 I was informed of your passage at Bordeaux, where I left faithful Cacambo and the old woman, who are to follow me very soon.
11 I have been informed of the frightful disasters that befell the family of my lady Baroness, and the fair Cunegonde.
12 The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 13 Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 14 When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 15 In truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed that they were women.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME...