1 He seemed to walk with the velvet paws of a tiger.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 2 He gazed at it as a lamb might gaze into the eye of a tiger.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 3 One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE 4 The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their sockets.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES ... 5 Javert, serious, was a watchdog; when he laughed, he was a tiger.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 6 The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard is a pocket crocodile.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 7 The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the spider on the fly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN ... 8 These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once more around lambs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 9 When a man is as much in love as a tiger, the least that he can do is to fight like a lion.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' ... 10 Many stars had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws of a tiger.
11 Twenty times, as he sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had roared within him.
12 They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not after the fashion of the tyrant, but after the fashion of the tiger.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 13 When a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER 14 He experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ... 15 Formerly, the first human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT ... 16 Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger converted into a lawyer.