1 Then the old woman opened the sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, and installed herself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 2 She had no longer a bed; a rag which she called her coverlet, a mattress on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 3 Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a blanket, and an alcove with curtains.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 4 The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 5 At two o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung himself, without undressing, on his mattress.
6 A terrified old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE 7 It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her mattress in front of her window.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 8 One of the mattress ropes was cut.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 9 The mattress now hung by one thread only.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 10 The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell into the street.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 11 The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between besiegers and besieged.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 12 Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, and returned to the barricade.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 13 He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 14 It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND... 15 The host replied that he had no other worthy of their Excellencies; but the travelers declared they would sleep in the common chamber, each on a mattress which might be thrown upon the ground.