1 The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean.
2 The dispute over this plateau constituted the whole battle.
3 Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the forest of Soignes.
4 It occupied the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the slope, which was tolerably steep then.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 5 All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 6 Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 7 The plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 8 Half the cuirassiers remained on the plateau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 9 The conflict on the plateau continued.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 10 As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 11 At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 12 When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great distance across the plateau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 13 High up on the plateau at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever she looked, with huge outcroppings of the underlying granite and gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
14 On the little plateau which crowned the barren hill there stood a single giant boulder, and against this boulder there lay a tall man, long-bearded and hard-featured, but of an excessive thinness.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN