1 Concern for her unhappiness, and respect for her fortitude under it, must strengthen every attachment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER 31 2 Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it was new to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, or to strengthen my confidence in, Mr. Jack Maldon.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM 3 As his fancy died out, I would no more have tried to strengthen any power I had, than I would have married him on his being forced to take me for his wife.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD 4 She knew how trial and emotion would exalt and strengthen it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE 5 Doubt is natural to the weakness of mankind, but we must pray that God in His mercy will strengthen us.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 5: Chapter 1 6 Even the holy fathers had doubts, and prayed to God to strengthen their faith.
Anna Karenina(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 5: Chapter 1 7 But the South had needed the cheering news from Chickamauga to strengthen its morale through the winter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVI 8 We have to strengthen the fortifications of Atlanta with more miles of rifle pits, and the General can't spare any men from the front to do it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 9 "I mean to have her too," he repeated, with a laugh intended to strengthen his self-assurance.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 15 10 She cornered Ambrosch the next time he came to town, and pointed out to him that any connection with Christian Harling would strengthen his credit and be of advantage to him.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II 11 I take the woman to a distance, where I will strengthen her against any further attacks.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 25 12 It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXIII 13 Hence things which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure, have served to enlighten me and to strengthen my conclusions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 14 If no news comes to-morrow, let us walk in the country on Sunday morning, and strengthen you for another week.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V 15 She walked out directly, as her uncle recommended, and followed his advice throughout, as far as she could; did check her tears; did earnestly try to compose her spirits and strengthen her mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XXXII