1 Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 2 A touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 123. The Musket. 3 The workers were simply the citizens of industry, and the Socialist movement was the expression of their will to survive.
4 Good-bye, dear Arthur, if I should not survive this night.
5 Mina if she survive is my sole heir.
6 Because," said Lord Henry, passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box, "one can survive everything nowadays except that.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar WildeGet Context In CHAPTER 19 7 For the dead are past thinking of revenge; and those who survive, for the most part leave such thoughts to the dead.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 8 These in fact resolve themselves into one, namely, that some should survive who will avenge the death of the murdered prince.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 9 In answer to this, it has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In III 10 If I were to see my father in one of these dreadful seizures I am convinced that I should never survive it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 11 In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
12 That is to say, I will not conceal from you the fact that, out of a hundred souls registered at the last revision, only fifty survive, so terrible have been the ravages of cholera.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Vasilievich GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER IV 13 When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostov that he was living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it.
War and Peace(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V 14 With twenty sail did I climb the Phrygian sea; oracular tokens led me on; my goddess mother pointed the way; scarce seven survive the shattering of wave and wind.
15 The boy prince, my chiefest care, makes ready at his dear father's summons to go to the Sidonian city, carrying gifts that survive the sea and the flames of Troy.