1 As for Scarlett, she had long ago become resigned to Melanie's habit of seeing good in everyone.
2 So, only half resigned to her fate, she spent most of her time with Scarlett, vicariously enjoying a pregnancy not her own.
3 A resigned striped kitten was clutched to her breast.
4 That October Governor Bullock resigned his office and fled from Georgia.
5 This wrongness went even deeper than Bonnie's death, for now the first unbearable anguish was fading into resigned acceptance of her loss.
6 They appeared, therefore, punctual and resigned, with the air of people bound for a dull "At Home," and after them Hilda and Muriel straggled, yawning and pinning each other's veils and ribbons as they came.
7 The most considerable event of the two years after the birth of Hugh occurred when Vida Sherwin resigned from the high school and was married.
8 She had resigned from the school, but she kept up one class in English.
9 Such an unwonted bustle was he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned to him for the time the sole management of affairs.
10 There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.
11 I'm going home quite resigned, you understand, as if all was over.
12 Yes," continued the tall man, "we must all be resigned to the decrees of Providence.
13 I am Charles Edward, King of England; my father has resigned all his legal rights to me.
14 She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT 15 Although Plutarch says: the tyrant never grows old, Rome, under Sylla as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO