1 Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon erect.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 2 He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 3 The man was of lofty stature, clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ... 4 These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once more around lambs.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 5 One day, a haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented herself.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE 6 His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 7 The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 8 The horses were harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ... 9 Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL 10 Convicts were, at that period, sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their command.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED 11 The mystical school of Joseph de Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare that Javert was a symbol.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 12 He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great age added to it.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON 13 It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 14 It opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and disappearing in the darkness between two walls.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 15 If this crouching woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what caused what we have to relate to vanish.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 16 The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated facade which faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES 17 He strode over a ditch, leaped a hedge, made his way through a fence of dead boughs, entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind lofty brambles, he caught sight of the cavern.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.