1 A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 2 Beads of perspiration burst forth among his hair and trickled down upon his temples.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 3 His eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS 4 He was cool, calm, grave, his gray hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted the stairs with his habitual deliberation.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 5 He heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar of the wind issuing from a cavern.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 6 A low brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild boar; the reader can see the man before him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ... 7 , the grand age; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings; a concert, a musical solemnity; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 8 Love had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, and of illusion.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE 9 Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him.
10 Paris has a capital, the Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; and it replaces the Gemoniae by ridicule.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO 11 He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE ... 12 The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which resembled night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ... 13 Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG