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1  The boulevard appeared to be absolutely deserted.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ...
2  A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague light into this poor room.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
3  There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the winter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ...
4  When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides of the boulevard.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ...
5  At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the dead of the night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ...
6  He had been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about the streets in the gloaming.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
7  At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
8  The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was the one whose window opened on the boulevard.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
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9  All at once a heavily laden carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
10  Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been obliged to open the window: he dared not.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ...
11  Every evening, at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and entering churches at nightfall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
12  Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
13  Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being followed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
14  Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of the Salpetriere, and who had mounted to the Barriere d'Italie by way of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris disappeared.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
15  When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpetriere, he appeared surprised and almost alarmed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ...
16  To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the height of a man from the ground, a small window which had been walled up formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there as they passed by.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
17  Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly becomes frightful.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
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