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1  The horizon was perfectly black.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  Black and desert space was before her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
3  Black jet comes from England, white jet comes from Norway.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
4  Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, and with crape on his hat.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
5  These are the two chambers; the first is dark, the second is black.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS
6  Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases there each year.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
7  had had for its special industry the imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS ...
8  When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought out funerals as other men seek christenings.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
9  It seemed to him that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered it more funereal and more black.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
10  Nevertheless, I sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ...
11  On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
12  He had thick eyelashes, enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, which is indescribable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
13  Widowhood and the grief of others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with the priests groaning around a coffin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
14  One morning he was in his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
15  Above and around these two delicate heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
16  As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; it melts and leaves the branch quite black.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
17  From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, changing all the paving-stones into steels.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
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