1 Just as Ellen had done, other plantation mistresses throughout the South had put the pickaninnies through courses of training and elimination to select the best of them for the positions of greater responsibility.
2 Through the week Carol heard how select an attendance there was to be.
3 He opened a bottle of wine, of which he kept a small and select supply in a buffet of his own.
4 He regretted that she did not feel inclined to go with him and select new fixtures.
5 Monsieur and Madame Ratignolle made much of the Colonel, installing him as the guest of honor and engaging him at once to dine with them the following Sunday, or any day which he might select.
6 The hunter, like the savage whose place he filled, seemed to select among the blind signs of their wild route, with a species of instinct, seldom abating his speed, and never pausing to deliberate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 7 I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin.
8 I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 9 Vronsky intentionally avoided that select crowd of the upper world, which was moving and talking with discreet freedom before the pavilions.
10 These two ladies were the chief representatives of a select new Petersburg circle, nicknamed, in imitation of some imitation, les sept merveilles du monde.
11 Sviazhsky comically imitated the tearful discourse of the marshal, and observed, addressing Nevyedovsky, that his excellency would have to select another more complicated method of auditing the accounts than tears.
12 Secondly, any knight proposing to combat, might, if he pleased, select a special antagonist from among the challengers, by touching his shield.
13 The two sisters at once called on Mrs Bolton, in a newish house in a row, quite select for Tevershall.
14 And though it was the Signora who paid him and gave him orders, he rather hoped it would be the young milady who would select him for l'amore.
15 The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR