1 You promised to show me your work.
2 I promised to lend her the Goncourt.
3 Yes, yes," said Edna, rising; "I promised.
4 He kissed them and promised to bring them back bonbons and peanuts.
5 She promised as those women in society always do, without meaning it.
6 It gave her the promise and pretext to keep the children indefinitely.
7 They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.
8 They were delicious February days, with all the summer's promise hovering in the air.
9 It was not despair; but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.
10 Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth held out to her.
11 The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability.
12 She left them in heated argument, speculating about the conclusion of the tale which their mother promised to finish the following night.
13 She answered the children in a cheerful frame of mind, promising them bonbons, and congratulating them upon their happy find of the little pigs.
14 She expressed her gratification by repairing forthwith to the region of the gasoline stove and rewarding her guest with the promised cup of coffee.
15 Edna, anxious to entertain him, invited Mademoiselle Reisz to meet him, having promised him a treat in her piano playing; but Mademoiselle declined the invitation.
16 Madame Ratignolle's sister, who had always been with her at such trying times, had not been able to come up from the plantation, and Adele had been inconsolable until Mrs. Pontellier so kindly promised to come to her.