1 She paused in the hall to speak to friends and to greet India who was emerging from the back of the house, her hair untidy and tiny beads of perspiration on her forehead.
2 The reality was the blushing Charles, emerging from her dressing room in his nightshirt, avoiding the startled look she gave him over the high-pulled sheet.
3 Then she saw a form, shadowy in the dimness, emerging from the blackness of the front veranda and standing at the top of the steps.
4 "I do," he assured her, emerging from the cupboard with the sought-for cake.
5 Miss Bart, emerging late the next morning from her cabin, found herself alone on the deck of the Sabrina.
6 When the snow was too deep for his motor he went off on country calls in a shiny, floral, steel-tipped cutter, only his ruddy nose and his cigar emerging from the fur.
7 What Carol said that evening, what she was passionately thinking, was also emerging in the minds of women in ten thousand Gopher Prairies.
8 And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal to that of the brain.
9 Hardly a breath was drawn by those he left behind, until they caught a glimpse of his head emerging for air, far down the current, when he again sank, and was seen no more.
10 On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 11 On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 12 Her first thought on emerging from this dream was a smiling one.
13 On emerging from a barricade, one no longer knows what one has seen there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY 14 The police, on emerging from the gallery du Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the direction of the belt sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION 15 Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the grating.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...