1 Some were sad and silent, others gay and contemptuous of hardships, but the thought that it was all over and they were going home was the one thing that sustained them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 2 The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained, and mystic aspect.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck. 3 Subject to this, and other the like interruptions now and then, a conversation was sustained between the two parties; but at intervals not without still another interruption of a very different sort.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 4 The physical need for sleep began to overtake her; the exuberance which had sustained and exalted her spirit left her helpless and yielding to the conditions which crowded her in.
5 Just then, a warrior of powerful frame, darkened the door, and stalking silently among the attentive group, he seated himself on one end of the low pile of brush which sustained Duncan.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 24 6 How long the nerves of Heyward would have sustained him in this extraordinary situation, it might be difficult to decide, for, happily, he soon found relief.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 24 7 The appalling defeat I then sustained returned to torment me.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER XI 8 Topsy was cited, and had up before all the domestic judicatories, time and again; but always sustained her examinations with most edifying innocence and gravity of appearance.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XX 9 He sustained a first rate character, both for intelligence and principle.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 10 With indomitable patience and perseverance, Jefferson Hope possessed also a power of sustained vindictiveness, which he may have learned from the Indians amongst whom he had lived.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 11 He had large boots lined with fur, and a belt around his waist, which sustained a small knife, together with a case for writing materials, but no weapon.
12 He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained.
13 Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed.
14 Hitherto, Rowena had sustained her part in this trying scene with undismayed courage, but it was because she had not considered the danger as serious and imminent.
15 The whizzing of shafts and of missiles, on both sides, was only interrupted by the shouts which arose when either side inflicted or sustained some notable loss.