1 Last winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY 2 The two bridges, situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in formidable wise through the arches.
3 Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed that he was coming to some arched windows, where he perceived a light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA 4 It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as the vault grew lower.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES ... 5 Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all connoisseurs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU. 6 A bit of plaster which fell into the stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION 7 A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through the embankment of the road.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 8 He had just perceived, at the point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive hinges.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 9 The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous brick.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES ... 10 She had never been pretty, even when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 11 Under the third arch of the Pont de Jena, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining aperture made by Blucher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was still recognizable on account of its whiteness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 12 The statistics give an average of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process of construction, and under the arches of the bridges.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 13 The flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of horror.
14 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 15 Towards the centre of this facade was a low, arched door, whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES 16 Above, a long brown beam, whence started at regular distances, massive, arching ribs, represented the vertebral column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed dirty diaphragms.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...