1 Scarlett had a sudden treacherous desire to cry out, "But you've been happy, and you and Mother aren't alike," but she repressed it, fearing that he would box her ears for her impertinence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER II 2 She looked furtively around her, as the treacherous, blasphemous thoughts rushed through her mind, fearful that someone might find them written clearly upon her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 3 She had not bargained on this--this treacherous warm tide of feeling that made her want to run her hands through his hair, to feel his lips upon her mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 4 It makes these people seem so beastly and treacherous, when I've been perfectly natural with them.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER VIII 5 It was not a scorching, hard, dusty day like the treacherous intruder of a week before, but soaked with languor, softened with a milky light.
6 A moment ago the night had been coldly empty; now it was incalculable, hot, treacherous.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXI 7 Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon. 8 More than all, his treacherous retreats struck more of dismay than perhaps aught else.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick. 9 They were designed for winter wear, when treacherous drafts came down chimneys and insidious currents of deadly cold found their way through key-holes.
10 Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful.
11 Past endless blocks of two-story shanties he walked, along wooden sidewalks and unpaved pathways treacherous with deep slush holes.
12 Throwing his leg over the saddle, he dismounted, with a determination to advance and seize his treacherous companion, trusting the result to his own manhood.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 4 13 But Hawkeye, whose duty led him foremost in the adventure, knew the character of those with whom he was about to contend too well to trust the treacherous quiet.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 32 14 I pretended not to be interested in what they said, and treated them as if I did not understand them; for I feared they might be treacherous.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER VII 15 There lies in sight an island well known in fame, Tenedos, rich of store while the realm of Priam endured, now but a bay and roadstead treacherous to ships.