1 The stars were beginning to gleam.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY 2 He saw the gleam of their bayonets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS 3 These two candles cast no gleam outside.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES 4 Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA 5 She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS 6 Their radiance casts a gleam of purple over their suite.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 7 Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF 8 Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 9 A sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their consciences were not heavy within them any more.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 10 The child was standing with his back to the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 11 The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, with a benediction for one and pardon for the other.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 12 The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners of her mouth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO 13 Nothing could be stranger, in that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished face, with its bristling hair, its eyes fixed and staring, and its yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 14 Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING 15 Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a gleam of light fell upon the earth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 16 All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with perfume and with poison, which is called love.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING 17 All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly drawing in and around the insurrection.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.