1 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 2 All the uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 3 However, if the geometrical line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a great city.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS 4 D'Artagnan set out with his four companions, and followed the trench; the two Guards marched abreast with him, and the two soldiers followed behind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 5 They arrived thus, screened by the lining of the trench, till they came within a hundred paces of the bastion.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 6 On arriving at the angle of the trench which was to serve them as a rampart, one of the Guardsmen fell.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 7 The young man turned quickly round, for this attack could not have come from the bastion, which was hidden by the angle of the trench.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 8 There were two means of gaining his object--to search him on the spot, or to carry him away, making a buckler of his body, and search him in the trench.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 9 D'Artagnan regained the trench, and threw the corpse beside the wounded man, who was as pale as death.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 10 He consequently kept it as a piece of evidence, and being in safety behind the angle of the trench, he began to interrogate the wounded man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 11 A trench was dug three and a half feet wide, four feet eight inches deep, and eight feet long.
12 At one end of the trench, steps were cut out and these formed the entrance and vestibule.
13 The trench itself was the room, in which the lucky ones, such as the squadron commander, had a board, lying on piles at the end opposite the entrance, to serve as a table.
14 On each side of the trench, the earth was cut out to a breadth of about two and a half feet, and this did duty for bedsteads and couches.
15 The roof was so constructed that one could stand up in the middle of the trench and could even sit up on the beds if one drew close to the table.