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1  One beholds reddish reflections in the corners.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
2  He saw that which it was repugnant to him to behold.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
3  When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
4  Yes, you clearly behold the future, yes, you are right.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT ...
5  One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has concealed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
6  Political economy therein spies a detritus, social philosophy there beholds a residuum.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
7  Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men emerge from the earth at their feet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
8  The old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION
9  Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ...
10  In short, let us agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is a good will which renders society uneasy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
11  The mask of Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by honest mud.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
12  The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red glow of those salamanders of the fray.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
13  Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was alive.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
14  When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER