1 Rumors of Abolitionist sympathies did not enhance the popularity of the MacIntoshes.
2 Appearances were enough, for the appearances of ladyhood won her popularity and that was all she wanted.
3 "Honey'll never catch anybody else if she doesn't marry Charlie," said Randa, cruel and secure in her own popularity.
4 She was as charming a widow as she had been a girl, pleasant when she had her own way, obliging as long as it did not discommode her, vain of her looks and her popularity.
5 But even with this under-cover gossip seeping about, he could have retained his popularity had he considered it worth retaining.
6 The library at Bellomont was in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking-room or a quiet retreat for flirtation.
7 Though his popularity was of the quiet kind, felt rather than actively expressed among his friends, she had never mistaken his inconspicuousness for obscurity.
8 Cuzak questioned me about her looks, her popularity, her voice; but he particularly wanted to know whether I had noticed her tiny feet, and whether I thought she had saved much money.
9 He was, in truth, their ruler; and, so long as he could maintain his popularity, no monarch could be more despotic, especially while the tribe continued in a hostile country.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 10 Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ... 11 , his consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his virtue, would be seasoned with a crime.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 12 Thus, to give an example, the popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy children was seasoned with a touch of irony.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 13 Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this made a part of his bourgeois popularity.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 14 Wine enjoys only a conventional popularity with serious drinkers.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 15 In this manner did Prince John endeavour to lay the foundation of a popularity, which he was perpetually throwing down by some inconsiderate act of wanton aggression upon the feelings and prejudices of the people.