1 She was the same as a dog to them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 2 He kept to his back yard, like a dog.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 3 He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in venery a knowing dog.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 4 A growl is audible; it is a huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English.
5 He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows his master.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL 6 The head of an enormous dog was outlined in the darkness at the entrance of the hut.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 7 I went into a dog's kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 8 On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, crouching down like a terrified dog.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 9 She had loved the dog, and he had died, after which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ... 10 This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the wolf.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ... 11 Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to theirs.
12 The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as he grew up, he would devour the other little ones.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 13 He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manoeuvre with his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as la rose couverte.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 14 In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, and warn and to wake those who were asleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 15 He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ... 16 There was besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost upon Gavroche, that is mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue, a slang expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century when Moliere wrote and Callot drew.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 17 Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the direct creation and the metaphor: le cab jaspine, je marronne que la roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri, the dog is barking, I suspect that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods.
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