1 In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father.
2 A little aloof, as became an aristocrat, lay a black-spotted carriage dog, muzzle on paws, patiently waiting for the boys to go home to supper.
3 And naturally the British aristocracy sympathized with the Confederacy, as one aristocrat with another, against a race of dollar lovers like the Yankees.
4 My father was a born aristocrat.
5 Now, an aristocrat, you know, the world over, has no human sympathies, beyond a certain line in society.
6 In England the line is in one place, in Burmah in another, and in America in another; but the aristocrat of all these countries never goes over it.
7 From the cradle, Alfred was an aristocrat; and as he grew up, instinctively, all his sympathies and all his reasonings were in that line, and all mother's exhortations went to the winds.
8 The capitalist and aristocrat of England cannot feel that as we do, because they do not mingle with the class they degrade as we do.
9 Prokofitch in his own way was quite as much of an aristocrat as Pavel Petrovitch.
10 You look at me incredulously; you think that's said by an "aristocrat," who is all in lace, and sitting in a velvet armchair.
11 This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 12 Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to Schinderhannes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 13 "You are quite right, Beauchamp," observed the young aristocrat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 14 You talk of his being an aristocrat.
15 He struck a match, and I perceived that this young aristocrat had not only a silver-mounted dressing-case but also a whole candle all to himself.