1 On the lofty heights, the pure light of mind could be seen flickering.
2 This lofty virtue had three domiciles in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 3 Through these windows there was formerly visible a lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Force.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 4 Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the lofty roofs of the houses which barred the Rue de la Chanvrerie on the Saint-Eustache side.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 5 The grandfather rose; he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ... 6 Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ... 7 In short, and we have insisted on it more than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to Cosette.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 8 Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring mien was remarked by Courfeyrac, Enjolras, and Combeferre, but whom none of them knew, joined them.
9 The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making himself useful there.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP 10 There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all inhabited, but closed from top to bottom.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS 11 In the Rue des Nonaindieres, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered cartridges publicly to passers-by.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 12 The serene and lofty soul, inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 13 The lofty trees, the copses, the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT 14 Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a swamp.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER