1 The cart was raised by twenty arms.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 2 The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY 3 When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had become august.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 4 He slipped into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened the door.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 5 She raised her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who is reeling.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 6 The folds of her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and dimpled leg.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 7 When he felt himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed searchingly about him.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 8 At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, raised his head with an air of stupefaction.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS 9 Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 10 The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the threshold.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 11 Let us tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is vegetation.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 12 This graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into dignity.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 13 An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 14 Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious look.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 15 He raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of the death agony.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 16 Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY 17 Then still sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing seven little children.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 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.