1 He showed her ten thousand new green points pushing through the mould.
2 He knelt down by the hole and broke the pot from the mould.
3 The thin white hands shook a little and Colin's flush grew deeper as he set the rose in the mould and held it while old Ben made firm the earth.
4 For some time there was no noise but the grating sound of the spades discharging their freight of mould and gravel.
5 There sat something pointed, straight out of the soft mould.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE OLD HOUSE 6 But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould, and her courage rose to support her in her adversity.
7 It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces.
8 That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in, I knew full well.
9 I had hoped that lighter hands than mine would help to mould her character, and that a baby-smile upon her breast might change my child-wife to a woman.
10 As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 11 The grass had half taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA 12 He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 13 A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 14 There is green mould in the grooves of the letters and yellow streaks on the marble, which come from more years than men could count.
15 And in examining their actions and lives one cannot see that they owed anything to fortune beyond opportunity, which brought them the material to mould into the form which seemed best to them.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU...