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1 In the beginning, the insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
2 No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists a return of a river on its course.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
3 He heard behind him, beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and singing in the elm-trees.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
4 The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
5 The reader will remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the external tincture of iodine.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND