1 We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be the exterminators of the last.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION 2 The storm of the combat still lingers in this courtyard; its horror is visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives and it dies there; it was only yesterday.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 3 He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 4 In this fray, each one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 5 The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red glow of those salamanders of the fray.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 6 He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet.
7 Rebecca, placed on horseback before one of the Templar's Saracen slaves, was in the midst of the little party; and Bois-Guilbert, notwithstanding the confusion of the bloody fray, showed every attention to her safety.
8 His armour bore all the marks of the late obstinate fray, being broken, defaced, and stained with blood in many places, and covered with clay and dust from the crest to the spur.
9 You have also, no doubt, remarked that Miss Cushing has cut the cord with a scissors, as can be seen by the double fray on each side.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 10 These two," continued Ulysses, "will not keep long out of the fray, when the suitors and we join fight in my house.
11 Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the fray, we laid you on your bed and cleansed your fair skin with warm water and with ointments.
12 A steady, though deliberate return was made from the rifle of Chingachgook, who had maintained his post throughout the fray with unmoved resolution.
13 Heyward tore the weapon of Magua from the sapling, and rushed eagerly toward the fray.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 14 Pavel Petrovitch came into the drawing-room, all ready for the fray, irritable and determined.
15 They had, besides this, used every art to lessen fatigue and danger to themselves and their soldiers, not killing in the fray, but taking prisoners and liberating without ransom.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XII — HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND C...