1 The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naively replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as a blind ended as a shutter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 2 Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black veil.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 3 The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a closed shutter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING 4 She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and laid her ear against it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS 5 She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS 6 Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS 7 The three blows were scarcely struck, when the inside blind was opened and a light appeared through the panes of the outside shutter.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 8 But to the great astonishment of d'Artagnan, the shutter remained closed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 9 The young woman in the street replied by a single tap, and the shutter was opened a little way.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 10 Bonacieux knocked, as at the shutter, three light and regular taps.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 11 They both approached the window, and through a slit in the shutter they saw Bonacieux talking with a man in a cloak.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 18 LOVER AND HUSBAND 12 They had just prepared their beds and barricaded their door within, when someone knocked at the yard shutter; they demanded who was there, and recognizing the voices of their lackeys, opened the shutter.
13 A saddled horse was fastened to the window shutter.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 14 Here, Bill, wrench the shutter open.
15 After some delay, and some assistance from Toby, the shutter to which he had referred, swung open on its hinges.