1 It seemed very natural in the case of her mother and father, but she had never applied it to herself.
2 The reason he had applied for transfer to the front, despite his useless arm, was that he realized, as the civilian population did not, the seriousness of the situation.
3 As they dashed down the street and bumped over the railroad tracks, Rhett applied the whip automatically.
4 He laughed and applied himself hungrily to the cold corn pone and cold turnip greens on which congealed grease was thick in white flakes.
5 He had never had the term "nigger" applied to him by a white person in all his life.
6 He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external: as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay.
7 It seemed to her natural that Lily should spend all her money on dress, and she supplemented the girl's scanty income by occasional "handsome presents" meant to be applied to the same purpose.
8 We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare.
9 But as applied by whalemen, it becomes so.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand. 10 Seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of reading the newspaper.
11 It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics.
12 The scout applied his fingers to his mouth, and raised a low hissing sound, that caused Duncan at first to start aside, believing that he heard a serpent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 13 Heyward seized the paddle, and applied himself to the work with an eagerness that supplied the place of skill, while Hawkeye was engaged in inspecting the priming of his rifle.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 14 Hawkeye and the Mohicans now applied themselves to their task in good earnest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 15 Additional pursuers were sent on the trail of the fugitives; and then the chiefs applied themselves, in earnest, to the business of consultation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27