1 Also, every evening would see placed upon the drawing-room table a fine bronze candelabrum, a statuette representative of the Three Graces, a tray inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and a rickety, lop-sided copper invalide.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER II 2 Beside it hung a huge, grimy oil painting representative of some flowers and fruit, half a water melon, a boar's head, and the pendent form of a dead wild duck.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VI 3 Also," requested Chichikov, "I should be glad if you would send for the accredited representative of a certain lady landowner with whom I have done business.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 4 In general, we Russians do not make a good show at representative assemblies, for the reason that, unless there be in authority a leading spirit to control the rest, the affair always develops into confusion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER X 5 For herself she did not care where she remained or what happened to her, but she felt herself the representative of her dead father and of Prince Andrew.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X 6 Napoleon at the battle of Borodino fulfilled his office as representative of authority as well as, and even better than, at other battles.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVIII 7 "They are burning for the combat," declared this representative of the Russian nation, "and to prove to Your Majesty by the sacrifice of their lives how devoted they are."
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III 8 For the representative of the Russian people, after the enemy had been destroyed and Russia had been liberated and raised to the summit of her glory, there was nothing left to do as a Russian.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI 9 Nothing remained for the representative of the national war but to die, and Kutuzov died.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI 10 On the same day the Chief of Police came to Pierre, inviting him to send a representative to the Faceted Palace to recover things that were to be returned to their owners that day.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVIII 11 Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor and friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company.
12 They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee lap suppers, and they regarded Carol as their literary and artistic representative.
13 As Duncan could only act as the representative of the commandant of the fort, the ceremonies which should have accompanied a meeting between the heads of the adverse forces were, of course, dispensed with.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 15 14 So saying, the scout returned and shook David cordially by the hand; after which act of friendship he immediately left the lodge, attended by the new representative of the beast.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 26 15 "Our representative, our spokesman," she sneered.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 13