1 Southerners were as enthusiastic visitors as they were hosts, and there was nothing unusual in relatives coming to spend the Christmas holidays and remaining until July.
2 For a fleeting instant she saw Melanie's incredulous face, the look on the chaperons' faces, the petulant girls, the enthusiastic approval of the soldiers.
3 If they could have continued this normal barbaric life Carol would have been the most enthusiastic citizen of Gopher Prairie.
4 She discovered that, despite the enthusiastic young writers, the drama was not half so native and close to the soil as motor cars and telephones.
5 Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.
6 The slaves selected to go to the Great House Farm, for the monthly allowance for themselves and their fellow-slaves, were peculiarly enthusiastic.
7 They jeered the piratical private, and called attention to various defects in his personal appearance; and they were wildly enthusiastic in support of the young girl.
8 The precise gunners were coolly enthusiastic.
9 We undertook to work the plantation together; and Alfred, whose outward life and capabilities had double the strength of mine, became an enthusiastic planter, and a wonderfully successful one.
10 I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 11 He was, on the whole, a cold and ardent, noble, generous, proud, religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 12 They grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 13 It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 14 These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie enthusiastic.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 15 They are an enthusiastic family, but liable to cool off.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS