1 There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED 2 One would have said that something dark was descending upon her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 3 These are the two chambers; the first is dark, the second is black.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 4 One can only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are dark in both directions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 5 Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 6 The night was not very dark; there was a full moon, across which coursed large clouds driven by the wind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED 7 It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the light of earth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 8 Then he took possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 9 These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 10 He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the passers-by.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ... 11 All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert all sorts of dark edifices.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ... 12 On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 13 That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his own hand; that he was master of it.
14 In his eyes, Jean Valjean was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five years, without being able to throw him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS 15 Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a great noise, which will talk very loud, and which will bless you, and only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 16 He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him thus in the dark, the only person awake in that house where all were sleeping.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED 17 He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him.
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