1 The high-pitched, childish voice answered "Yas'm," and there were sounds of footsteps going out the back way toward the smokehouse where Ellen would ration out the food to the home-coming hands.
2 "Daytime is enough like a nightmare without my dreaming things," she thought desperately and began hoarding her daily ration to eat it just before she went to sleep.
3 The soldiers mixed their ration of corn meal with water, and salt too when they could get it, wrapped the thick paste about their ramrods and roasted the mess over camp fires.
4 She did not quite understand it herself; did not know that in the Bjornstams she found her friends, her club, her sympathy and her ration of blessed cynicism.
5 Napoleon then led them back to the store-shed and served out a double ration of corn to everybody, with two biscuits for each dog.
6 The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.
7 The Emperor's gratitude was announced to the vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of vodka.
8 It was here that the prisoners for the first time received horseflesh for their meat ration.
9 When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors.
10 In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being.
11 Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
12 Her breath, her skin, her lips, all flattered Elinor with signs of amendment; and Marianne fixed her eyes on her with a rational, though languid, gaze.
13 But it's natural and rational that you should like it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY 14 Your sister, Betsey Trotwood,' said my aunt, 'would have been as natural and rational a girl as ever breathed.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY 15 I tried to calm him, that we might come to something rational; but he got hotter and hotter, and wouldn't hear a word.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY