1 I have the prudence of Amphiaraus and the baldness of Caesar.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 2 When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 3 Still, he did not pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ... 4 He exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF 5 The army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 6 The child was dressed as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 7 In spite of his prudence, d'Artagnan restrained himself with great difficulty from taking a part in the scene that was going on below.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 8 His natural prudence, however, never forsook him for a single instant.
9 Porthos, abated, no doubt, of his too-great confidence by his adventure of Chantilly, played with skill and prudence.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH 10 Athos listened to his projects, then shook his head, and recommended prudence to him with a shade of bitterness.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH 11 De Winter has changed his usual stupidity into a strange prudence.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY 12 The bed, which she had kept from prudence and that they might believe her seriously wounded, burned her like a bed of fire.
13 Ethan felt that if he had pleaded an urgent need Hale might have made shift to pay him; but pride, and an instinctive prudence, kept him from resorting to this argument.
14 There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
15 He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.