| 1. | For a time that scared me but any concession would have shortened our chance of escape beyond estimating. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | I said it people often do so, in such cases like a rather reluctant concession to truth and justice--as if I wanted to deny i. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | But if you look up and smile with that countenance, I shall swear concession before I know to what, and that will make a fool of me.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | This identity of concession which each makes to all, is called Equality. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | He had often said to himself that he had done wrong in making that concession to despair. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | Do you call it work to get hold of concessions and speculate with them. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | Certain concessions were made by the Government, and were eagerly accepted. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 10. | He accused the professor of making too great concessions to the materialists. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 11. | Then new concessions to the people, then a constitution, then liberty. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 12. | He reached the accused through all the concessions made by his lawyer. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 13. | There were no mutual concessions one stood erect, and the others yielded and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifferenc. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 14. | A sad thing What it termed its concessions were our conquests what it termed our encroachments were our rights. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 15. | His disposition always inclined to exact concessions rather than to make them kept him aloof from all friendships. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 16. | As in every large household, there were at Bald Hills several perfectly distinct worlds which merged into one harmonious whole, though each retained its own peculiarities and made concessions to the others. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
