1 His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an indescribable courageous despondency.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 2 The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES 3 This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 4 The courageous took to arms, the poltroons hid.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 5 When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET 6 Planchet was more courageous, it must be admitted, by day than by night.
7 The cardinal fixed his piercing eyes on this courageous speaker.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 8 Milady, that woman so courageous and firm, shivered in spite of herself.
9 His drab courageous wife drove the wagon, and she helped Kennicott support him as he hobbled up the steps, into the house.
10 But all the courageous intelligent people are fighting him.
11 Astonishment soon changed to admiration, and they passed on to other and less courageous victims, openly expressing their satisfaction at the firmness with which the white warrior sang his death song.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 12 Once more he tried the throng, as if seeking safety in its blindness, and then several moments succeeded, during which Duncan believed the active and courageous young stranger was lost.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 13 With the courageous words of the artillery and the spiteful sentences of the musketry mingled red cheers.
14 It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues.
15 He had not been courageous; he had never tried to put any other thoughts in the place of the dark ones.