1 And it had suddenly occurred to her that Rosedale, who had surprised Trenor's confidence, was the fitting person to receive and transmit her version of the facts.
2 Instantly the vision was gone; Carol was back in the long darkness; and Kennicott was giving his version of that fire and wonder: "No."
3 Carol was very sick at this version of Fern's eager youth, but she was sicker as Mrs. Bogart hinted that no one could tell what had happened between Fern and Cy before the drive home.
4 He has just as many thoughts as we have, and I want him to develop them, not take Gopher Prairie's version of them.
5 Dinah gave a very garrulous version of it, to which Tom added the particulars which he had drawn from her that morning.
6 The homely version of his christian name on the lips of his friend had touched Stephen pleasantly when first heard for he was as formal in speech with others as they were with him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 7 In the end he had got mixed up in some shady affair, some money transaction: at least, that was one version of his flight.
8 The men asked him to give his version of it, and he did so with great vivacity for the sight of five small hot whiskies was very exhilarating.
9 "Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a dragon of the sea," saith Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale; in truth, some versions of the Bible use that word itself.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling. 10 Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 11 He immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the abduction of a child.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 12 Although that does not mean I've abandoned what I thought earlier as the two versions are, to some extent, not incompatible.