1 Three hundred dead bodies were cast into it.
2 After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies.
3 They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the windows.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK 4 One of the men who picked up the body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 5 Marius, who was, perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS 6 It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail of bodies.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 7 The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned to the depth of the hollow road.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 8 One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 9 There was no one in the house but the two nuns, Sister Perpetue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body of Fantine.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 10 The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS ... 11 The broad horizontal sheet of light severed the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and wheels in the obscurity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 12 Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le Cabuc.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A ... 13 Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of Fantine, which lay extended there.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS 14 This deputy had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name of Fouche, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been.
15 Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the height of their bodies.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER 16 This might have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in the future.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ... 17 Their business was to go at night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at night.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.