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1  The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
2  One of the three entered the alley leading to the commissary's house.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
3  They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby fruit-trees.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
4  The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the cemetery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
5  Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the blind alley Genrot.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
6  They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley leading to the nuns' corner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
7  The fragmentary lane was prolonged between buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
8  In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
9  The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into a thicket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
10  At the bottom, an alley of tall poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the angle of the Aumarais lane.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES
11  These combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
12  Marius liked to arrive by the end of the alley which was furthest from their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began again.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY ...
13  Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette once more.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
14  They heard the tumultuous noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which could not be distinguished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
15  For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pepiniere, a man and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest side.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY ...
16  Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in what was then known as the Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris, the "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, in the alley Boulanger.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
17  This garden was oblong in shape, with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose glass frames sparkled in the moonlight, and an old well.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
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