1 A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars.
2 It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 3 He is there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of his great stars.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY 4 In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 5 The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star.
6 A few stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ... 7 They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 8 When two mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering throughout the immense mystery of stars.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 9 They thought they heard voices carolling in the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a rising sun.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 10 Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 11 The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet around the light.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT ... 12 There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION 13 For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...