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1  To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
2  Four feet of river flow past along the outside wall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
3  In the beginning, the insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
4  All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and on a house at the other.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
5  In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage takes place.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
6  The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left Mont-Saint-Eloy behind them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
7  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 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
8  He speedily divined, however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his pursuers and himself.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
9  He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ...
10  If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS
11  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 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
12  Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a species of large branch grafted on the river.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
13  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 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
14  Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
15  At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was suppressed later on.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
16  Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumiere Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in which a man sinks visibly.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
17  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 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
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