1 Words of resistance rushed to Ethan's lips and died there.
2 That afternoon, Gerald, his resistance worn thin, had set out to make an offer for Dilcey.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER II 3 But Georgia, by its stubborn resistance, had so far escaped this final degradation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLVII 4 No sooner were her preparations made than they roused a smothered sense of resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 5 5 The rise of her blood as their eyes met was succeeded by a contrary motion, a wave of resistance and withdrawal.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 8 6 Lily was throbbing with fear, but the insinuation fortified her resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 9 7 But at the outset she perceived a subtle resistance to her efforts.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 12 8 But Rosedale's natural imperviousness to hints made it easy for him to brush such resistance aside.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 7 9 Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 8 10 Selden's calmness seemed rather to harden into resistance, and Miss Bart's into a surface of glittering irony, as they faced each other from the opposite corners of one of Mrs. Hatch's elephantine sofas.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 9 11 In spite of the moderation of his tone, each word he spoke had the effect of confirming Lily's resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 9 12 The parting had occurred a few weeks after Selden's visit, and would have taken place sooner had it not been for the resistance set up in Lily by his ill-starred offer of advice.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 10 13 The baby, feeling herself detached from her habitual anchorage, made an instinctive motion of resistance; but the soothing influences of digestion prevailed, and Lily felt the soft weight sink trustfully against her breast.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 13 14 The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada. 15 In turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.