1 In general, they conspired to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 2 Since my convalescence I have so many affairs of this kind on my hands that I am forced to regulate them a little.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID 3 He wished to hasten their steps; but Athos took his arm and passed it under his own, and the young man was forced to regulate his pace by that of his friend.
4 There are here no procurators who regulate successions beforehand.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER 5 There was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this functionary now took the case into his own hands.
6 His wife was a thin, pale, sharp kind of person with no fortune of her own, and the misfortune of having to regulate her husband's rather sordid amorous exploits.
7 There was a spasmodic abandonment about it as if, in allowing herself to utter the sound the woman's brain had authorized what it could not regulate.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 8 As for me, my own affairs are regulate; and as I have nothing else to do, I shall go make arrangements for the travel.
9 He performed these two social duties for old dignity's sake but conceded nothing further to the conventions which regulate the civic life.
10 The first who attempted to pass a law to this effect was the tribune Terentillus, who proposed that a committee of five should be named to consider and regulate the power of the consuls.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIX. 11 This clock, of course, all the hundred or more workmen depended upon to regulate their hours of beginning and ending the day's work.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter II. 12 It would be ridiculous in me to regulate my conduct by such caprices.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 60. The Telegraph. 13 And so you maintain that the laborer himself is an element to be studied and to regulate the choice of methods in agriculture.
14 To make up for this, at home Pierre had the right to regulate his life and that of the whole family exactly as he chose.
15 He has regulated all his charities.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME