1 He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 2 Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented that nothing equal to it had appeared to her even in the blackest deliriums of fever.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS 3 The disintegration is unprecedented.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 4 What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an insulting word to her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES 5 What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple matter to Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV... 6 Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the Gascon pun.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO 7 At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR 8 The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of substance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 9 The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had fallen without perceiving it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 10 And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been good also.
11 Now Javert threw himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented apparition: a gulf on high.
12 Scarlett stared at her, alarmed by so unprecedented an outburst.
13 Here be it said, that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular whale, continued through day into night, and through night into day, is a thing by no means unprecedented in the South sea fishery.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. 14 We have reached the unprecedented low level; the awful criminal depravity of substituting the mob for the court and jury, of giving up the jail keys to the mob whenever they are demanded.
15 As to Tom, he was becoming that not unprecedented triumph of calculation which is usually at work on number one.