1 But it is women who are the calm realists once they discard the fetishes of the premarital hunt.
2 You must discard the word Fancy altogether.
3 For this reason, many things had become superfluous which, although they could not be sold, the family did not wish to discard.
4 Other women's husbands you let severely alone, even if they were your own discarded beaux, and no matter how temptingly attractive they were.
5 She always felt uneasy driving past this dirty, sordid cluster of discarded army tents and slave cabins.
6 She glanced tentatively at Selden's motionless profile, and resumed with a slight sigh: "Well, all I can say is, I wish she'd give ME some of her discarded opportunities."
7 The dooryard was of packed yellow clay, treeless, barren of grass, littered with rusty plowshares and wheels of discarded cultivators.
8 On her first evening in Gopher Prairie Cy had appeared at the head of a "charivari," banging immensely upon a discarded automobile fender.
9 They sat on a heap of discarded railroad ties, oak logs spotted with cinnamon-colored dry-rot and marked with metallic brown streaks where iron plates had rested.
10 The ordinary stiff dining chairs had been discarded for the occasion and replaced by the most commodious and luxurious which could be collected throughout the house.
11 In short, every occupation was abandoned for the time, and all other pursuits seemed discarded in order that the tribe might freely indulge, after their own peculiar manner, in an open expression of feeling.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 12 He presently discarded all his speculations in the other direction.
13 Tom's distress of mind wore off gradually and the toothache grew irksome and was discarded.
14 But you have discarded your titles after the example set you by Messrs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit. 15 He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.