1 One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled with manure.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 2 Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 3 Certain success would attend the experiment of employing the city to manure the plain.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 4 If our gold is manure, our manure, on the other hand, is gold.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 5 All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 6 The reader knows, that by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS 7 The wagons were to begin carting manure earlier, so as to get all done before the early mowing.
8 And to do this it was necessary to look after the land himself, not to let it, and to breed cattle, manure the fields, and plant timber.
9 In the center of the block, by itself, was the stable for the three horses of the drayman, and beside it a pile of manure.
10 She could smell the manure and sweat.
11 His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face immediately brightened on seeing Rostov.
12 All about the field, like heaps of manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded to each couple of acres.
13 The shutters of the house were closed, and Christian Cantle, who had been wheeling manure about the garden all day, had gone home.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 14 Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill.