1 He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
2 You were so good as to promise that you would always substitute the phrase, annual compliment.
3 She was fain to take up the note again, and to substitute the much smaller sum he had named.
4 She had another fortnight's parish nursing to do, by rights, but they might get a substitute, you know.
5 No, he'd hardly swallow me as a substitute breeder.
6 First as a comfort to Fanny, then as an auxiliary, and last as her substitute, she was established at Mansfield, with every appearance of equal permanency.
7 But Weena was a pleasant substitute.
8 For all they knew the ladies of France might be shaving their heads and wearing coonskin caps, so Rhett's memory for furbelows was an excellent substitute for Godey's Lady's Book.
9 Doughnuts were in some houses well thought of as a substitute for the hot buttered rolls.
10 This is my substitute for pistol and ball.
11 There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper.
12 And little Eliza seconds the effort, by toddling up to her father, and trying to pull the book out of his hand, and install herself on his knee as a substitute.
13 However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the officer of lancers, for Marius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES... 14 The substitute, Theodule, had not been a success.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES... 15 From the moment when Marius took his place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God himself.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING