1 They fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for the consent of the nation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 2 The ocean seeks to lead it astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 3 Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 4 It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA 5 The goodman talked with a rustic volubility, in which there was nothing alarming.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL 6 To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much so.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI... 7 Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and how to get in.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY 8 He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the wall, for fear of alarming her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN 9 His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ... 10 On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 11 On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was accompanied by the most alarming symptoms, and the looks of her medical attendants prognosticated the worst event.
12 In the heavy air of the room, and the heavy darkness that brooded in its remoter corners, I even had an alarming fancy that Estella and I might presently begin to decay.
13 When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister "went on the Rampage," in a more alarming degree than at any previous period.
14 I had become aware of an alarming growling overhead, and had probably expressed the fact in my countenance.
15 Herbert was rarely there less frequently than three times in a week, and he never brought me a single word of intelligence that was at all alarming.