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1 They resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
2 This multitude undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
3 From the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors which resemble billows stirred the multitude.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
4 It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
5 They are prevented from seeing each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude of mysterious means to correspond.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
6 Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand in the banlieue.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
7 But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which is sometimes right and sometimes wrong.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
8 He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to intervening events.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
9 At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
10 Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when one is dropping off to sleep.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST