1 It was there that the shadows held him fast.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 2 This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 3 Four shadows were just entering on the bridge.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS ... 4 The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 5 Barely visible in the pale shadows of the horizon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 6 He felt shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 7 This penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a child.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 8 These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were on their way to the right bank.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS ... 9 On leaning over, the eye is lost in a deep cylinder of brick which is filled with a heaped-up mass of shadows.
10 Jean Valjean was in the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one might have said that he hated in advance of himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 11 As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 12 Thus, against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, its light; against immensity, a needle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 13 At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then they were nothing more than two shadows in the house.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 14 It seemed to him, that, after having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was dazzled as he gazed upon it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 15 He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 16 Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly becomes frightful.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 17 Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all studded with stars.
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