1 There was no waste of useless powder.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND ... 2 Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ... 3 His highway robberies laid waste the country-side.
4 It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 5 These chambers received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 6 Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris is itself an imitator.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 7 Javert explored these gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a needle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 8 When he saw that this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden and allowed it to run to waste.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 9 In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 10 The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into a thicket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 11 The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES 12 The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE 13 His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the incomplete copies of his Flora which were in his possession, he had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a second-hand bookseller.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 14 He strode over a ditch, leaped a hedge, made his way through a fence of dead boughs, entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind lofty brambles, he caught sight of the cavern.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 15 He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he heard voices talking very close by.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON ... 16 There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ... 17 The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had been mistaken, that there had been no noise, that it was useless to get entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that quarter.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION 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.