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1 They felt chilled as by the breath of a death's-head.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
2 A man condemned to death is listening to his confessor in the tumbrel.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE ...
3 It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and precedes the death agony.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
4 There are a hundred deaths a year of hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
5 At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in his soul.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY ...
6 The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in death.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
7 Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in the heart of man.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
8 Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting about its tail armed with two horns.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS
9 The garret, the cellar, the lowly ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR