1 You know I am a sordid piece of human nature, ready to sell myself at any time for any reasonable sum, and altogether incapable of any Arcadian proceeding whatever.
2 It was worth while to see the different conduct of the beauties who underwent this examination, during the time it was proceeding.
3 While this dialogue was proceeding, Cedric was endeavouring to wring out of those who guarded him an avowal of their character and purpose.
4 "Hear me, Rebecca," he said, proceeding with animation; "a better chance hast thou for life and liberty than yonder knaves and dotard dream of."
5 I should have been much surprised and much hurt by such a proceeding.
6 Mr. Losberne and Oliver had remained at another end of the apartment while this hurried conversation was proceeding.
7 This was the principle on which Anne wanted her father to be proceeding, his friends to be urging him.
8 These were some of the thoughts which occupied Anne, while her fingers were mechanically at work, proceeding for half an hour together, equally without error, and without consciousness.
9 He gave her a very plain, intelligible account of the whole; a narration in which she saw a great deal of most characteristic proceeding.
10 It became at once evident that the dance was proceeding immediately within the surface of the door, no apartment intervening.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 11 At this very time of the reddleman's conversation with Mrs. Yeobright at Blooms-End another conversation on the same subject was languidly proceeding at Alderworth.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 12 She looked, and saw a flickering firelight proceeding from the open side of a hovel a little way before them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil 13 From their position they could hear what was proceeding inside.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil 14 Probably it was something in the nature of a judicial proceeding.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 15 These few inquiries proved, however, to be a more lengthy proceeding than Holmes had imagined, for he did not return to the inn until nearly nine o'clock.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER