1 With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.
2 On such occasions he would start up, quaff a cup of wine as if to raise his spirits, and then mingle in the conversation by some observation made abruptly or at random.
3 He left my homely dwelling to mingle with the gay nobility of your brother's court, where he learned to do those tricks of horsemanship which you prize so highly.
4 But Ivanhoe was like the war-horse of that sublime passage, glowing with impatience at his inactivity, and with his ardent desire to mingle in the affray of which these sounds were the introduction.
5 Nor do I wish to mingle," said the King, mildly, "unless in so far as you will admit me to have an interest.
6 He could not accept with assurance an omen that he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth.
7 The capitalist and aristocrat of England cannot feel that as we do, because they do not mingle with the class they degrade as we do.
8 True, as you have said to me, I might mingle in the circles of the whites, in this country, my shade of color is so slight, and that of my wife and family scarce perceptible.
9 But, you will tell me, our race have equal rights to mingle in the American republic as the Irishman, the German, the Swede.
10 Let us mingle majesty with the feast.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 11 These groups, warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these visions mingle with his dreams.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS 12 Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are brought eventually to the same clearness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 13 I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 14 The child went singing away, following up the current of the brook, and striving to mingle a more lightsome cadence with its melancholy voice.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVI. A FOREST WALK 15 It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle.