1 Compared to the true daylight, it is night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 2 The hero of the day is the vampire of the night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 3 This disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 4 Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during catastrophes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 5 It is a misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form.
6 He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked by a joy for him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 7 It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble voices were heard calling from the well.
8 Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, as rocks in running water, held their own until night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 9 In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 10 But it was too late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 11 Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was a soul lacking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 12 The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused him from his lethargy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 13 In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 14 Every day, accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring at the Orion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 15 At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams like Virgil in the fatal plains of Philippi, the hallucination of the catastrophe takes possession of him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 16 It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid mud.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 17 It was by one of these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of Cerisoles.
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