1 Hearing him foolishly fumbling there, the Captain laughs lowly to himself, and mutters something about the doors of convicts' cells being never allowed to be locked within.
2 The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun. 3 A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 4 At midnight they opened the station house to the homeless wanderers who were crowded about the door, shivering in the winter blast, and they thronged into the corridor outside of the cells.
5 The cells were in tiers, opening upon galleries.
6 They live with their cells open.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 7 In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, of which they must never speak.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES 8 In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, and the novices.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES 9 They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 10 An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of these cells.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU. 11 Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be heard.
12 The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells.
13 The inspector visited, one after another, the cells and dungeons of several of the prisoners, whose good behavior or stupidity recommended them to the clemency of the government.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 14 The man touched his hat; and glancing at Oliver with some curiousity, opened another gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and led them on, through dark and winding ways, towards the cells.
15 Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.