Persons
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He knew many
persons
whom he could invite to dinner, could ask to take part in anything he was interested in or to use their influence for some petitioner, and with whom he could frankly discuss the actions of other men and of the Government; but his relations with these
persons
were confined to a sphere strictly limited by custom and habit from which it was impossible to escape.
She was in love with several
persons
at once, both men and women; she had been in love with almost every one who was specially notable.
Levin himself felt inclined to stop at those little places, but, as they were near home, they were always within his reach and they were small, so that there was not room enough for three
persons
to shoot there.
Here they are themselves!' cried the man, pointing to four
persons
on horseback and two in a char-a-banc coming along the road.
Dolly was dazzled by the elegant equipage of a kind she had never seen, by the beautiful horses and the elegant, brilliant
persons
about her.
Several
persons
smiled.
During the dinner several telegrams were sent to
persons
interested in the elections.
The date on which, according to the most exact calculations of
persons
experienced in such matters, Kitty should have been confined had long passed; but she had not yet been delivered, nor were there any signs that the time was nearer now than it had been two months previously.
He tried not to let his mind wander nor to let his impression of the music be marred by looking at the white-tied conductor's arm-waving, which always so unpleasantly distracts one's attention from the music; nor by the ladies with their bonnets, the ribbons of which were so carefully tied over their ears for the concert, nor by all those other
persons
who were either not interested in anything or were interested in all sorts of things other than music.
He also met Oblonsky, who had just come from the races, and many other
persons
he knew.
How were they to live, seven
persons
without counting Estelle, on his three francs?
Only two
persons
face each other here: master on one side, Ned Land on the other.
So there was a wedding at which forty-three
persons
were present, at which they remained sixteen hours at table, began again the next day, and to some extent on the days following.
Everyone was waltzing, Mademoiselle d'Andervilliers herself and the Marquis; only the guests staying at the castle were still there, about a dozen
persons.
He had infringed the law of the 19th Ventose, year xi., article I, which forbade all
persons
not having a diploma to practise medicine; so that, after certain anonymous denunciations, Homais had been summoned to Rouen to see the procurer of the king in his own private room; the magistrate receiving him standing up, ermine on shoulder and cap on head.
Binet, a few shopkeepers, two or three publicans, the cure, and finally, Monsieur Tuvache, the mayor, with his two sons, rich, crabbed, obtuse persons, who farmed their own lands and had feasts among themselves, bigoted to boot, and quite unbearable companions.
Not many people came to these soirees at the chemist's, his scandal-mongering and political opinions having successfully alienated various respectable
persons
from him.
He was so bored with Yonville and its inhabitants, that the sight of certain persons, of certain houses, irritated him beyond endurance; and the chemist, good fellow though he was, was becoming absolutely unbearable to him.
The novelty of the attempt, and the interest incident to the subject, had attracted such a concourse of
persons
that there was a veritable obstruction on the threshold of the establishment.
It is to stupefy the senses and to bring on ecstasies—a thing, moreover, very easy in
persons
of the weaker sex, who are more delicate than the other.
However, if it were only those
persons
of different sexes united in a bewitching apartment, decorated rouge, those lights, those effeminate voices, all this must, in the long-run, engender a certain mental libertinage, give rise to immodest thoughts and impure temptations.
From time to time at the upper end a sacristan passed, making the oblique genuflexion of devout
persons
in a hurry.
And for a quarter of an hour the two of them went over the various
persons
in Yonville who might perhaps be inclined to help her.
"I have even read that various
persons
have found themselves under toxicological symptoms, and, as it were, thunderstricken by black-pudding that had been subjected to a too vehement fumigation.
The priest did not fail to point this out; he even explained to Bovary that the Lord sometimes prolonged the life of
persons
when he thought it meet for their salvation; and Charles remembered the day when, so near death, she had received the communion.
If you no longer love me, as I fear, how long mine must seem to you!ANONYMOUS LETTER"MADAME,All your little goings on are known; but the
persons
to whose interest it is to check them have been warned.
The great misfortune of the small towns of France and of elected governments, like that of New York, is an inability to forget that there exist in the world
persons
like M. de Renal.
The way in which Julien comported himself amid the score of
persons
who stood waiting is still quoted by the young Secretaries of Embassy in London.
It does not offer the insult to the young
persons
who shine in the drawing-rooms of Paris, of supposing that a single one of their number is susceptible to the mad impulses which degrade the character of Mathilde.
I have answered for you, I am going to take you to a room where there will be twelve
persons
assembled; you will take note of what each of them says.
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