1 A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 2 This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been waiting for.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 3 This note-book was like a spark which had fallen from that other soul into hers.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER 4 Like it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 5 Not a spark of certainty and truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW 6 Everything was on fire; the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the chamber.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 7 Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of that spark.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN 8 Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 9 As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the shot is discharged.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN 10 The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning flash.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON 11 The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered and plaintive air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE ... 12 Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there leaps out from them a little being.
13 One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN 14 This population full of proud virtue, capable to the highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the fall of a spark.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 15 Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 16 He composed, in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at once.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS 17 From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, changing all the paving-stones into steels.
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