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1  The cart was broken, and the horse was dead.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS
2  The horse had two broken legs and could not rise.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
3  It was a tilbury harnessed to a small white horse.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
4  The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
5  commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
6  Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a hundred crowns.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
7  The noise which he had heard was the trampling of the horse's hoofs on the pavement.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
8  He was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was earth color.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
9  Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would fatigue the horse.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
10  An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, his horse having tumbled down.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
11  The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, produced a gentle, monotonous noise.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
12  Tholomyes, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE
13  Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he had turned carter.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
14  As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half an hour.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
15  He offered his assistance to any one who was in need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or stopped a runaway bull by the horns.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
16  One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to stable his horse at Labarre's.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
17  by the Hesdin road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going in the opposite direction, and in which there was but one person, a man enveloped in a mantle.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
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