1 It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 2 Ordinarily it ends in that ocean: revolution.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 3 Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 4 It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy.
5 He effects a coup d'etat because he, God, has not been able to make both ends meet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 6 Leblanc's head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a bar of iron.
7 The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 8 This is the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by Andre Chenier, by Andre Chenier whose throat was cut by the ras.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED 9 The law of all is liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to Robespierre's admirable definition.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 10 All the uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 11 Later on, this disappears like the playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 12 Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two holds, suicide or crime.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW 13 The portress had "done up" his room; only she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened by the fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 14 Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme and Fouillou.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE 15 As he believed that he lacked nothing, he did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from his labors too soon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 16 For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Mendon, Issy, Vanvre, Sevres, Puteaux, Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnieres, Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, Gonesse; the universe ends there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS 17 Not to mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding thread.
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