1 It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace.
2 Daylight disbanded the phantom crew, and made it clear to her that she would hear from Selden before noon; but the day passed without his writing or coming.
3 It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
4 My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side.
5 The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.
6 When she and Robert stepped into Tonie's boat, with the red lateen sail, misty spirit forms were prowling in the shadows and among the reeds, and upon the water were phantom ships, speeding to cover.
7 But now, in the nighttime, when he lay tossing about, there would come stalking into his chamber a grisly phantom, the sight of which made his flesh curl and his hair to bristle up.
8 Once again, as when he had come out of the hospital, he was bound hand and foot, and facing the grisly phantom of starvation.
9 He beat his foot upon the ground, and scowled with hate at the swirling smoke that was approaching like a phantom flood.
10 Whichever way his thoughts turned they were followed by the somber phantom of the desertion in the fields.
11 The almost violent serenity of the funereal moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 12 He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 13 All of a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 14 This phantom caused the old world to tremble.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 15 That phantom was lying in wait for him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727