1 The mystical school of Joseph de Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare that Javert was a symbol.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 2 , his consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his virtue, would be seasoned with a crime.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 3 This silence was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 4 Thus, to give an example, the popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy children was seasoned with a touch of irony.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 5 Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of mass are the best sort.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT 6 The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU 7 Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX 8 The army in butternut were now seasoned fighters, their generals had proven their mettle, and everyone knew that when the campaign reopened in the spring, the Yankees would be crushed for good and all.
9 The state militia who had gone out so short a time before, resplendent in new uniforms, could hardly be distinguished from the seasoned troops, so dirty and unkempt were they.
10 When the new nurse permitted the baby to suck a bit of fat pork, thereby bringing on the first attack of colic, Rhett's conduct sent seasoned fathers and mothers into gales of laughter.
11 Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French grenadier's, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia.
12 The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. 13 That was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch because he would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 14 It was Wells who had shouldered him into the square ditch the day before because he would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 15 The girl brought him a plate of grocer's hot peas, seasoned with pepper and vinegar, a fork and his ginger beer.