1 A handful of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE 2 behold a misserable calamity, and I will show you my certificates.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 3 He gazes so much on humanity that he perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he beholds God.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 4 He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 5 Noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 6 The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in death.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND 7 His task finished, he returns to ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes in the mire; his head in the light.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 8 What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken family.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 9 At the point of this drama which we have now reached, it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow of a tragic adventure.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 10 In less than a second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE ... 11 The campagna of Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS 12 The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass under his very nose.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 13 In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the public highway.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 14 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.