1 Recent rains had swollen the river.
2 To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 3 The river flowed to his feet with the sound of a kiss.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ... 4 The river, that great hider of folly, is what you want.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 5 A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be seen.
6 This convict was on his way to fling the body into the river.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ... 7 In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage takes place.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 8 This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, opened on the river as well as on the shore.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 9 Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, very narrow but sufficient for escape.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES ... 10 Such a find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 11 There he would inevitably find himself blocked between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and in front of him, and the authorities on his heels.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 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 HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 13 Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does not see.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ... 14 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 HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 15 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 HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS 16 The flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of horror.
17 While these two men were manoeuvring, each on his own side, with irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving from Passy to come to the river and water their horses.
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