1 He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 2 The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS ... 3 He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing the bridge of Austerlitz.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS 4 The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left Mont-Saint-Eloy behind them.
5 On crossing that magic threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes the titi.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 6 He covered with scorn, aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold of evil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 7 A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on its way, like him, to the right bank.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS ... 8 He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ... 9 Leblanc made his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, and stared intently at Marius.
10 At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY 11 After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the barrier of l'Etoile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ... 12 As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed in red, who was holding forth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 13 One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped on the bridge, and had not caught sight of him while he was crossing the large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS ... 14 On raising the latch and crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression as when one enters at the theatre into a grated baignoire, before the grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 15 Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette once more.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS 16 And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called entrain, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a sort of merry bombardment over their heads.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 17 The wall is hidden on the outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's brigade was broken against it.
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