1 He was the prey of a throng of novel sensations.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 2 Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 3 So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT 4 Jean Valjean at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 5 To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 6 The nettles seemed to twist long arms furnished with claws in search of prey.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 7 The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some prey.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 8 Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his head.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 9 She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort of inward conflict.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 10 She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without breathing, a prey to her thoughts.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG 11 When a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER 12 He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to vertigo.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS 13 He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey and had raged against him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 14 Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand.
15 As is the case with all those who are suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the steel pistols in his trousers pockets.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ... 16 If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the pettifogger horrible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 17 Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with a dead and terrible life.
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