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 Current Search - Aperture in Les Misérables 1
1  This aperture formed a sort of peep-hole.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
2  It was necessary, at any cost, to enlarge the aperture still further.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
4  It had neither windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter there, air could not.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
5  Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
6  Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
7  He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
8  Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the stairs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
9  And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the aperture.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
10  The plaster which should have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
11  He approached the hut; its door consisted of a very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
12  Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
13  An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this point.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS
14  Under the third arch of the Pont de Jena, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining aperture made by Blucher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was still recognizable on account of its whiteness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
15  Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A ...
16  His universal suavity was less an instinct of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist apertures made by drops of water.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED