1 There was music and dancing there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY 2 He made him dance according to his whim.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 3 The little ones skipped about; the elder ones danced.
4 They danced a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 5 I add, as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of roses and blue spectacles.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 6 I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 7 I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thenardier; "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 8 He knew the best place for everything; in addition, boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough single-stick player.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 9 The bal Mabile is not the polymnia dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla lay in wait for the virgin Planesium.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO 10 A livid foetus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent to addressing each other as thou.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 11 These are the bishops who stand well at Court, who are rich, well endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbes rather than priests, prelates rather than bishops.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 12 And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, who was hedged about with that vague resistance of hers composed of dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ... 13 I regret everything about them, their elegance, their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of ribbon.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 14 I was made to be a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, or a petty German prince, furnishing the half of a foot-soldier to the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his breeches on his hedge, that is to say, his frontier.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES