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Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
2 Teeth and claws fear what they cannot grasp.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT
3 By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches back.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
4 The nettles seemed to twist long arms furnished with claws in search of prey.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
5 At certain moments she beheld him like a lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
6 Many stars had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws of a tiger.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
7 Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
8 On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the claws of the Thenardiers, he returned to Paris.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN ...
9 One word resembles a claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase seems to move like the claw of a crab.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
10 It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
11 It has eleven claws of iron with which to seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more antennae than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
12 However, he could not be greatly surprised that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender himself and to make an end of it.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE