1 And, refilling his glass, he rose.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 2 "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 3 A thin stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE ... 4 Monsieur to a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the Medusa.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 5 There was not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of that conscience.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE 6 The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he abandoned his glass and hastened up.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 7 had had for its special industry the imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS ... 8 On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in silver wire and orange flowers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 9 He arrived in time to see an arm passed through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the glass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 10 Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE ... 11 So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE ... 12 Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 13 The bookcase was a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 14 The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the Thenardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, and magnificent objects of tin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL 15 She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS ... 16 In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a bottle of wine and a glass.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 17 But there came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thenardier raised the cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass and briskly approached the cistern.
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