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1  The old man was caught in the wheels.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
2  Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
3  The first thing he caught sight of was the knob of the door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
4  In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught sight of him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
5  The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a glimpse in all this.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS ...
6  When I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, it overwhelmed me.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
7  The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
8  Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
9  All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
10  In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
11  At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
12  If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
13  He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, to the window, of which he caught a glimpse.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
14  The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
15  Those rare dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the ancient sacred euphony.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
16  On the other hand, at the very bottom of his thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
17  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 Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
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