1 And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXXI. 2 The expanding forces of life within her choked the desire for reforming.
3 Here it seems to me not out of place to cite instances of the Romans seeking assistance from religion in reforming their institutions and in carrying out their warlike designs.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII. 4 Of course, a minute or so later I would realise wrathfully that it was all a lie, a revolting lie, an affected lie, that is, all this penitence, this emotion, these vows of reform.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 1: V 5 You, for instance, want to cure men of their old habits and reform their will in accordance with science and good sense.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor DostoevskyGet Context In PART 1: IX 6 Pierre was staying at Prince Vasili Kuragin's and sharing the dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew's sister.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII 7 Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence.
War and Peace(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII 8 General Campan's division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVII 9 He cried, he pleaded for forgiveness, promised to reform over and over again, and then received his dismissal, feeling that he had won but an imperfect forgiveness and established but a feeble confidence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER X 10 The boy's first impulse was to be grateful, and reform.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXII 11 He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER V. 12 Mrs. Fisher's latest hobby was municipal reform.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 4 13 And another thing: People like you and me, who want to reform things, have to be particularly careful about appearances.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXI 14 I had not long been a reader of the "Liberator," before I got a pretty correct idea of the principles, measures and spirit of the anti-slavery reform.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER XI 15 I gave her a chance to reform, I tried to save her.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 4: Chapter 12