1 Bad women and all they involved were mysterious and revolting matters to her.
2 "Why--" began Uncle Henry, irritated at the feminine mind which thought only of personal things when broad issues were involved.
3 Scarlett knew the effort this involved both mentally and physically, for Melanie suffered torments of shyness in the presence of anything male.
4 I'm sorry to have involved him and the others in such a--a-- But I had to think fast when I rode away from here and that was the only plan that occurred to me.
5 The ramifications of cousins, double cousins, cousins-in-law and kissing cousins were so intricate and involved that no one but a born Georgian could ever unravel them.
6 She watched it jealously, as though it were her own property and Lily its mere custodian; and she tried to instil into the latter a sense of the responsibility that such a charge involved.
7 I seize the distinction, but I don't mind it, since doing the one involved doing the other.
8 She could not remain at Bellomont without playing bridge, and being involved in other expenses; and to continue her usual series of autumn visits would merely prolong the same difficulties.
9 Carry had in fact come dangerously near to being involved in the episode of Mrs. Norma Hatch, and it had taken some verbal ingenuity to extricate herself.
10 But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.
11 All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest snakes sportively festooning their limbs.
12 While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head.
13 He saw the vast, involved wrinkles of the slightly projecting head beyond.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 14 Each moment, however, pressed upon him a conviction of the critical situation in which he had suffered his invaluable trust to be involved through his own confidence.
15 Nothing could be distinguished but a dark mass of human forms tossed and involved in inexplicable confusion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23