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1 All around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, hummed.
Les Misérables (V5)By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
2 One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress.
Les Misérables (V5)By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND ...
3 These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm.
Les Misérables (V5)By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW
4 All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of bees.
Les Misérables (V5)By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW
5 After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees.
Les Misérables (V2)By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
6 This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult.
Les Misérables (V4)By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
7 The ring-dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found flies, the fly found infusoriae, the bee found flowers.
Les Misérables (V5)By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
8 The flower-beds of Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds.
Les Misérables (V1)By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...