1 The best of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN... 2 Not a point in Paris nor in France was exempt from it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 3 That stone is no more exempt than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and from the defilement of the birds.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 4 Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 5 Bonacieux, with a half-smile which was not exempt from a tinge of impatience.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 6 Only," replied Treville, "it is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot exempt a man from infamy and persecution.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD 7 During this time, exempt from the anxiety of its only and true chief, the royal army led a joyous life, neither provisions nor money being wanting in the camp.
8 I will not dispute now whether princes are exempt from the laws of their country; but this I am sure, they owe subjection to the laws of God and nature.
9 No body, no power, can exempt them from the obligations of that eternal law.
10 She herself was not exempt from internal emotion, and without having done anything wrong, yet fully comprehended that Luigi was right in reproaching her.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 11 Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.
12 Nancy, indeed, was not exempt from a failing which was very common among the Jew's female pupils; and in which, in their tenderer years, they were rather encouraged than checked.
13 Only, I'm not idiot enough to pay more than the government makes me pay, and Sam and I were just figuring out whether all automobile expenses oughn't to be exemptions.
14 To those cities they dealt with leniently, they granted exemptions and privileges, conferring upon them the rights of citizenship, and securing their welfare in every particular.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. 15 His father, whom he loved, he exempted from censure; as for himself, one thing followed another; and so he sat, with old fogies, looking at views.