1 As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.
2 But were he wrecked, the living water would engulf him, helpless; and he would indeed be lost.
3 There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 4 It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL 5 It is because it, too, as a matter of fact, has been engulfed in a deluge.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 6 What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards Thenardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that Thenardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 7 Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a paper folded in four.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT 8 The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 9 They are there engulfed, but they display themselves there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 10 He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 11 Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 12 From every side resounded acclamations of welcome, and Chichikov felt himself engulfed in a sea of embraces.
13 And Moscow engulfed the army ever deeper and deeper.
14 Like the seventh and last wave that shatters a ship, that last irresistible wave burst from the rear and reached the front ranks, carrying them off their feet and engulfing them all.
15 This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA