1 The deformity of triumph overspread that narrow brow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 2 The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 3 This street was dark and narrow and seemed made expressly for him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS ... 4 The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 5 These shutters were divided into long, narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 6 He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ... 7 Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 8 These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 9 The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into a thicket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 10 Add to this, high shoes with little irons on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY 11 He approached the hut; its door consisted of a very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 12 The top of the shapeless bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as wicket and air-hole when the door was closed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 13 But when the occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous cudgel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 14 He was no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of invalids, the corridor through which he had approached.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 15 One was, in fact, in a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean upon, bearing a tablet of black wood.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 16 Moreover, he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was extinguished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW 17 Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been obliged to hoist this bergere up to the first story through the window, as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned among the possibilities in the way of furniture.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.