1 The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling their condemned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 2 The sort of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is splitting wood.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 3 He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 4 Put everything on it, fling everything there, stick it all in.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP 5 Thenardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a bone to that sleuth-hound.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ... 6 A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to arrest him.
7 She stammered all pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and dared not.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER TH... 8 This convict was on his way to fling the body into the river.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 9 She would take this handkerchief and fling it in his face and show him the door and never, never speak to him again.
10 His impersonal courtesy toward her that had begun during her convalescence continued and he did not fling softly drawled barbs at her or sting her with sarcasm.
11 I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
12 Now and then in his frenzy he would fling himself against the walls of the place, beating his hands upon them.
13 Stung to madness, he vainly hoped, as many another has done, to fling the whole thing from his heart by one desperate effort.
14 Back on the heart the weight which it would fling.
15 The Roumanians were wild, and wanted me right or wrong to take out the box and fling it in the river.