1 There was but a mere fragment of nature in that woman.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND 2 At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondetour.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 3 Through these windows there was formerly visible a lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Force.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 4 This fragment of the vaulting, partly submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this plane, he was safe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 5 In a corner, on a tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin woman and a number of children were piled in a heap.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE ... 6 Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thenardier, he crouched down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ... 7 The slab has here been replaced by a cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty and petrified wood which resemble huge bones.
8 His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 9 He invented an infidelity on the part of the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and that the man was deceiving her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 10 In one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to stand upright in.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT 11 The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated facade which faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES 12 He who writes these lines has himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which parted like elder-twigs between the fingers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 13 Thenardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 14 Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 15 Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ... 16 To go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of Wellington and Blucher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 17 To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself.
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