1 The words passive obedience indicate this.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 2 The sufferings of the first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her nature.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 3 Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 4 Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme and Fouillou.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE 5 This is the case with passive natures.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR 6 In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive principle, and he tried to reach a balance.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 7 Then, accustomed to passive obedience, he jumped down from the terrace, ran toward the lane, and at the end of twenty paces met d'Artagnan, who, having seen all, was coming to him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN 8 Lily had no mind for the vagabond life of the poor relation, and to adapt herself to Mrs. Peniston she had, to some degree, to assume that lady's passive attitude.
9 Sometimes she thought it was because Mrs. Peniston had been too passive, and again she feared it was because she herself had not been passive enough.
10 He sat still and passive, his head resting against the back of the wooden rocking-chair, his hands relaxed upon the arms.
11 A few had straggled among the conquered columns, where they stalked in sullen discontent; attentive, though, as yet, passive observers of the moving multitude.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 12 The politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts of ill-judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 13 Perhaps, however, the manner of the scout would not have been so passive, had he fully comprehended the language in which the preceding dialogue had been conducted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 14 A curious passive inattention had such possession of her, that the presence of her little sister in the room did not attract her notice for some time.
15 There was therefore no hope but in passive fortitude, and in that strong reliance on Heaven natural to great and generous characters.