Amongst

Examples

• Nothing in my powers or instinct placed me amongst this brave band. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I had amongst my scholars several farmers' daughters: young women grown, almost. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Your lives and property are sacred and inviolable amongst one another until the end of time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was a difference amongst them as amongst the educated; and when I got to know them, and they me, this difference rapidly developed itself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The post-boys wondered at the fees he flung amongst them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Tarzan is mightiest amongst you for Tarzan is no ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Amongst them were Sir John and Lady Middleton and Mrs. Jennings, but there were two others, a gentleman and lady, who were quite unknown to her. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Do you know that Brummell is cut amongst us, and who do you think sets the fashions there now? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A mass amongst Christian men best begins a busy morning. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• All amongst the trees he saw moving objects, red, like poppies, or white, like may-blossom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• From amongst these cloaks, and behind that curtain, the Nun was said to issue. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His head was not strong: the knaves he lived amongst fooled him beyond anything I ever heard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Paulina took much interest in the coming of these friends; she had frequently heard of them; they were amongst those of whom Graham oftenest spoke. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be happy--not as angels, but as few are happy amongst mortals. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Taking the weed from his lips, he threw the remnant amongst the shrubswhere, for a moment, it lay glowing in the gloom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Suppose it should be discovered hereafter that a gem of art has been amongst us in this town, and nobody in Middlemarch awake to it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You will find her particular friends in another sphere than mine: amongst the Cholmondeleys, for instance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Emanuel had been brought up amongst Jesuits. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But we are educated people, and have lived amongst educated people. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But he is specially in love with one besides, for when I and Donne urged him to make a choice amongst the fair bevy, he named--which do you think? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Look that thou pass him not on the way; for the circumcised slave was displaying his stolen finery amongst us. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Then he goes by some other amongst us,' rejoined the girl, 'which I more than thought before. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Yet amongst them was more than one gentleman of unexceptionable character as well as ample wealth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Ye people: Hearken to my words; for I know not whether, after this year, I shall ever be amongst you here again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And now we were in the country, amongst what they called les bois et les petits sentiers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It had appeared a sudden famine to her heart, this entire cessation of any news respecting the people amongst whom she had lived so long. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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