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From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind, that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHe was in an intermediate state between sleeping and waking; at variance with himself, with his company, with the country, and with the government.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextHe considered the Russian peasant as occupying a stage of development intermediate between the ape and the man, and at the same time in the local assemblies no one was readier to shake hands with the peasants and listen to their opinion.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo Tolstoy
ContextThe French army melted away at the uniform rate of a mathematical progression; and that crossing of the Berezina about which so much has been written was only one intermediate stage in its destruction, and not at all the decisive episode of the campaign.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHaving written to Joe, to offer him consolation, and to assure him that I would come to the funeral, I passed the intermediate days in the curious state of mind I have glanced at.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextTheir destination was one of the little restaurants overhanging the boulevard which dips steeply down from Monte Carlo to the low intermediate quarter along the quay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextIts windows opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextThe ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate means of overtaking the chase.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextIn passing from the bucolic to the intellectual life the intermediate stages are usually two at least, frequently many more; and one of those stages is almost sure to be worldly advanced.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextPerhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextAmong his equals, never was a man more just and generous; but he considered the negro, through all possible gradations of color, as an intermediate link between man and animals, and graded all his ideas of justice or generosity on this hypothesis.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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