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1 All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full of caverns.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT
2 That mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that frail despot.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
3 It must needs undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a mountain sinking into the plain.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
4 They make very pretty woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on little flutes with six holes.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
5 The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
6 He traversed the mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
7 Whoever has beheld a cloud which has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of lofty houses.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
8 To families divided by questions of money and inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years."
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
9 Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of the assembly.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
10 To such a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, who exercise a gentle labor near heaven, and who, he added, are happy because they are innocent, he stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him something which might wound the man.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ...