1 Joining these groups, I found bewailing women whose husbands were away in herring or oyster boats, which there was too much reason to think might have foundered before they could run in anywhere for safety.
2 He was the child of his parents' youth and joy; he grew up like the conjurer's rosebush, and all the world was his oyster.
3 Having disposed of these evil-minded persons for the night, Mr. Bumble sat himself down in the house at which the coach stopped; and took a temperate dinner of steaks, oyster sauce, and porter.
4 Nor would I swallow an oyster, for I know only too well what an oyster may resemble.
5 Gumboes and shrimp Creole, doves in wine and oysters in crumbly patties full of creamy sauce, mushrooms and sweetbreads and turkey livers, fish baked cunningly in oiled paper and limes.
6 She drank several cups of the tea which was served with her portion of stewed oysters, and her brain felt clearer and livelier when she emerged once more into the street.
7 She knew that he would want oysters, that he would have heard of Harvey's apropos of Grant and Blaine, and she took him there.
8 Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
9 Colonel Lloyd's slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance.
10 And the Tatar ran off with flying coat-tails, and in five minutes darted in with a dish of opened oysters on mother-of-pearl shells, and a bottle between his fingers.
11 Stepan Arkadyevitch crushed the starchy napkin, tucked it into his waistcoat, and settling his arms comfortably, started on the oysters.
12 "Not bad," he said, stripping the oysters from the pearly shell with a silver fork, and swallowing them one after another.
13 Levin ate the oysters indeed, though white bread and cheese would have pleased him better.
14 They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they transform them into oysters and swallow them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 15 The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES