1 This unweeting manner of performance is the true ring by which, in this refurbishing age, a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 2 Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure.
3 And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service.
4 The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
5 In this fashionable whim could be discerned a survival of the habits of the times of Alexander.
6 Then Scarlett saw with relief the faint rise and fall of her shallow breathing and knew that Melanie had survived the night.
7 The two-story red-brick city hall had survived the burning of the city.
8 We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.
9 Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature.
10 I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
11 They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.
12 You are witnesses that I have survived my wife.
13 It stated that he had just shot his wife; that any will she might secretly have made would be invalid, as he survived her.
14 His feet were cold and dead, but his head survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 15 Of the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all the officers, except five, were either dead or captured.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON