1 Rumors of Abolitionist sympathies did not enhance the popularity of the MacIntoshes.
2 Appearances were enough, for the appearances of ladyhood won her popularity and that was all she wanted.
3 "Honey'll never catch anybody else if she doesn't marry Charlie," said Randa, cruel and secure in her own popularity.
4 She was as charming a widow as she had been a girl, pleasant when she had her own way, obliging as long as it did not discommode her, vain of her looks and her popularity.
5 But even with this under-cover gossip seeping about, he could have retained his popularity had he considered it worth retaining.
6 The library at Bellomont was in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking-room or a quiet retreat for flirtation.
7 Though his popularity was of the quiet kind, felt rather than actively expressed among his friends, she had never mistaken his inconspicuousness for obscurity.
8 Cuzak questioned me about her looks, her popularity, her voice; but he particularly wanted to know whether I had noticed her tiny feet, and whether I thought she had saved much money.
9 He was, in truth, their ruler; and, so long as he could maintain his popularity, no monarch could be more despotic, especially while the tribe continued in a hostile country.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 10 Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ... 11 , his consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his virtue, would be seasoned with a crime.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 12 Thus, to give an example, the popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy children was seasoned with a touch of irony.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 13 Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this made a part of his bourgeois popularity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 14 Wine enjoys only a conventional popularity with serious drinkers.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 15 In this manner did Prince John endeavour to lay the foundation of a popularity, which he was perpetually throwing down by some inconsiderate act of wanton aggression upon the feelings and prejudices of the people.