1 A deathlike silence oppressed all nature.
2 Milady felt a consolation in seeing nature partake of the disorder of her heart.
3 Like all persons of real genius, Milady knew what suited her nature and her means.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 4 There was a moment of cold silence, during which everyone was affected according to his nature.
5 But this time she had to contend with an unpolished nature, concentrated and insensible by force of austerity.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 6 D'Artagnan fancied quite naturally, according to his custom, that he must be the object of their conversation, and listened.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER 7 She howled as the hurricane howled; and her voice was lost in the great voice of nature, which also seemed to groan with despair.
8 I practiced this exercise, and as nature has endowed me with some faculties, at this day I can throw the lasso with any man in the world.
9 The first moments of her captivity were terrible; a few convulsions of rage which she could not suppress paid her debt of feminine weakness to nature.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY 10 "You are a brave youth, d'Artagnan," interrupted the cardinal, tapping him familiarly on the shoulder, charmed at having vanquished this rebellious nature.
11 Then d'Artagnan ceased knocking, and prayed with an accent so full of anxiety and promises, terror and cajolery, that his voice was of a nature to reassure the most fearful.
12 In short, she had taken the measure of motives hitherto unknown to herself, through this experiment, made upon the most rebellious subject that nature and religion could submit to her study.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 13 And yet this nature so distinguished, this creature so beautiful, this essence so fine, was seen to turn insensibly toward material life, as old men turn toward physical and moral imbecility.
14 She terminated it by an action which left no doubt as to the nature of this conversation; this was a blow with her fan, applied with such force that the little feminine weapon flew into a thousand pieces.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN 15 d'Artagnan the younger--notwithstanding the efforts he made to remain firm, as a future Musketeer ought, nature prevailed, and he shed many tears, of which he succeeded with great difficulty in concealing the half.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER 16 The prisoner did not wish to lose time; and she resolved to make that very evening some attempts to ascertain the nature of the ground she had to work upon, by studying the characters of the men to whose guardianship she was committed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY 17 So much the better for me, sir, if you speak to me, as you say, with frankness--for then you will do me the honor to esteem the resemblance of our opinions; but if you have entertained any doubt, as naturally you may, I feel that I am ruining myself by speaking the truth.
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