1 Before the right gets set free, there is foam and tumult.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 2 The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the den.
3 Conversations between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 4 At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden increase.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 5 This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult within him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 6 The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of the Temple was silence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND ... 7 Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of those wild waters.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 8 Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and resolution.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 9 This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 10 Not to conceal anything, the three first were more experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 11 All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 12 The Restoration had been one of those intermediate phases, hard to define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a halting-place.
13 The sound of doors opening and shutting, the creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement of the courts, reached his ears.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 14 A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses like the scales on the hydra.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 15 Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 16 People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable alarm peal from Saint-Merry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 17 The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK 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.