1 He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II 2 You were so good as to promise that you would always substitute the phrase, annual compliment.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI 3 She was fain to take up the note again, and to substitute the much smaller sum he had named.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI 4 She had another fortnight's parish nursing to do, by rights, but they might get a substitute, you know.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 7 5 No, he'd hardly swallow me as a substitute breeder.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 12 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.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XLVIII 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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XII 9 Doughnuts were in some houses well thought of as a substitute for the hot buttered rolls.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER VII 10 This is my substitute for pistol and ball.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 1. Loomings. 11 There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket. 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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XLIII 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 (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context 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 (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context 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 (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING