1 Teglath-Phalasar, according to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 2 And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had mistaken for a book.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER ... 3 Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS ... 4 The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of that mirror, so fatal for him, so providential for Marius, in which he had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE ... 5 This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 6 And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man takes off his hat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ... 7 The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...