1 Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you fast.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 2 It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the earth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 3 The remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a single one.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 4 The white angel and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the abyss.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 5 She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she saw the mayor bow his head.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS 6 As for Eponine, she was not at her post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE ... 7 One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the spider brought life, not death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 8 The guardian entered, Brujon was put in a solitary cell for a month, but they were not able to seize what he had written.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE ... 9 He thought that he beheld the hand which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready to seize him once more.
10 A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to arrest him.
11 It has eleven claws of iron with which to seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more antennae than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 12 The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 13 Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS 14 He cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a battle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 15 The second way is to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man has necessarily placed there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 16 He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of work and an excess of punishment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 17 To go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of Wellington and Blucher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.