BIRDS in Classic Quotes

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Quotes from Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
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1  Only the birds beheld this curiosity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET
2  Children have their morning song as well as birds.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
3  The streets are deserted and the birds are singing.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
4  All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
5  Like wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
6  Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the marshes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
7  As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of anything which comes to hand.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
8  He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: the children dispersed like a flock of birds.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
9  An entire system of mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever envious of the flies and birds.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
10  The only sound was the tiny, feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the heavens at an immense height.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
11  They send each other the song of the birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
12  It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
13  He heard behind him, beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and singing in the elm-trees.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
14  Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which was so virgin and so young.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED
15  Love had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, and of illusion.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
16  He hardly saw the roses, he ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing except to conceal the sword.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
17  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 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
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