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1  At dusk, she went down to the garden.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY
2  At dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
3  I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn you.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE ...
4  Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN ...
5  They will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the gates of the cemetery are closed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF ...
6  Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
7  Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking the door, which was always closed at dusk.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES
8  Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
9  All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, had not seen him, and had jostled him as they passed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE
10  One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS ...
11  The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle poet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI—WAITING