1 But supposing the invader of domestic bliss to betake himself away at the first rush of the harem's lord, then is it very diverting to watch that lord.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. 2 In this place the youth felt that he was an invader.
3 When the invader was triumphant he found but little, for whatever there was had been sheltered in the friendly soil.
4 Again, the soldiers of an invader, finding themselves in a foreign land, are under a stronger necessity to fight, and necessity, as has often been said, is the parent of valour.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. 5 But Melanie reefed up her top hoop a little higher to hide her thickening figure and the wounded invaded the brick house.
6 My little inner world was gone, invaded by people whose thoughts were not my thoughts, whose actions were as alien as a Hottentot's.
7 At first she was as startled as if a ghost had invaded the store and then, hastily removing her foot from beneath her, she stiffened her spine and gave him a cold stare.
8 They invaded the house at all hours and without warning.
9 She flushed; she was alarmed by the ease with which the big-city man invaded her guarded personality.
10 The room was invaded by beautiful women and dashing young men, laughing and talking together.
11 And as she snuggled comfortably beneath the eiderdown a sense of restfulness invaded her, such as she had not known before.
12 He was invaded by a creeping strangeness that slowly enveloped him.
13 He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.
14 She peeped through the window, and saw the dark little room, with its almost sinister privacy, not wanting to be invaded.
15 Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was menaced, I offered my breast.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT