1 It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME 2 It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE 3 To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 4 Still she said nothing, wishing that it was permissible to shake one's father and tell him to hush his mouth.
5 "That's your opinion," said Scarlett rudely, wishing it were permissible to smack old ladies' jaws.
6 Her imagination indeed overstepped the limits of what is reckoned permissible by conventional morality; but even then her blood flowed as quietly as ever in her fascinatingly graceful, tranquil body.
7 'Once in a way it's surely permissible,' murmured the old man.
8 "No, there was an Englishman who did suckle his baby on board ship," said the old prince, feeling this freedom in conversation permissible before his own daughters.
9 Yes," said Holmes; "I think that both inferences are permissible.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 10 When you have apprehended that basket as one thing and have then analysed it according to its form and apprehended it as a thing you make the only synthesis which is logically and esthetically permissible.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 11 Candide immediately sent to ask the Lord Pococurante permission to wait upon him the next day.
12 She made haste to send her daughters to bed, then she asked the man's permission to send Cosette off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal air.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 13 It is unnecessary to say that permission is always refused to men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 14 Their very mothers did not obtain permission to embrace them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES 15 When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT