1 It seemed like the gun-carriage of an enormous cannon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 2 Here a cannon would make a boum, and the thunder would make a pouf.
3 He had never approached a cannon in his life, even at the Invalides.
4 He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and dissolved battles with cannon.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 5 The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, whoever passes by; le pantre.
6 The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 7 When the first cannon was fired, the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it was thirty-five minutes past eleven.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 8 The slope there is so steep that the English cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, which was the centre of the combat.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 9 The Genoese commander wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 10 The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he resisted the galley guards who seized him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 11 All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 12 On the one hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 13 The discussion concerned one of the questions of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE 14 Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him.
15 It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 16 These combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 17 One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and nothingness.
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