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1  He's some frightfully poor wretch.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
2  It was a frightful hole, but she felt free.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
3  Great boughs uplifted themselves in frightful wise.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
4  Anciot, and describes as a frightful old hunchback.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
5  The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
6  War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
7  All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
8  The fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
9  He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all covered with ashes and dried mud.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
10  It was the opening of the door of seclusion, a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its hinges in the presence of the archbishop.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
11  It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the service, dared to attempt it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
12  However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so much as the shadow of a misgiving.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
13  An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
14  Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an order.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
15  Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; such was the fright which the Thenardier inspired in her, that she dared not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both hands; she could hardly lift the pail.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
16  In that fatal valley, at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of projectiles, this square fought on.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE
17  Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly becomes frightful.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
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