1 The fire on the hearth lighted him up.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 2 The host said to him, "There is the fire."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 3 The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire beneath brushwood.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 4 All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the fireplace.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 5 Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat right into the middle of her secrets.
6 He seated himself in front of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 7 They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm them up, easily become monstrous.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 8 He stretched out his feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was emitted by the pot.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 9 Fantine had the long, white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the sacred fire with a golden pin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 10 , just at nightfall, on a December evening, knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out in the town-hall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS ... 11 The bookcase was a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 12 His youth, which was packing up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 13 A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 14 The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 15 The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 16 While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small table near the window.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 17 Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to give up a bird which eats a half a farthing's worth of millet every two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by the light of the opposite window.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.