1 He was that child's stay, and she was his prop.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN... 2 This ruin can be recognized by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam adjusted like a prop.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 3 I took that dear hand, held it a moment to my lips, then let it pass round my shoulder: being so much lower of stature than he, I served both for his prop and guide.
4 Mary Jane, who was then a little girl in short clothes, was now the main prop of the household, for she had the organ in Haddington Road.
5 "I will tell you this," he said, rising and trying with nervously twitching fingers to prop up his pipe in a corner, but finally abandoning the attempt.
6 Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.
7 He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall.
8 He carried her up the stairs to her bedroom and while the alarmed household fled hither and yon for hot bricks, blankets and whisky, he propped her on the pillows of her bed.
9 Ye see an old man cut down to the stump; leaning on a shivered lance; propped up on a lonely foot.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. 10 I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the 'Georgics' where tomorrow's lesson began.'
11 I found her propped up on the couch in her bay-window, with her foot in a big slipper.
12 He lay down in bed, but did not put out the candles, and his head propped on his hand, he fell into long reveries.
13 He was not very quickly found; he had hidden himself in the very thickest part of the garden, and with his chin propped on his folded hands, he was sitting lost in meditation.
14 She turned her head nearer to me, and it seemed to me in the darkness that she propped herself on her arm.
15 He lay with his head propped high on the pillows.