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1  Let us return to the ship Orion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
2  That sombre ship has a path which it is forced to pursue.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
3  This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on board ship.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
4  A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the genius of man with the powers of nature.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
5  The simple pile of chains on a ship of a hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight feet in depth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
6  It was reached by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a square hole like the hatchway of a ship.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
7  He flings away his burden, if he have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, the sand is above his knees.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
8  Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is impossible.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
9  They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the stupid majesty which befits white creatures.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
10  The interior of the barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight horror, the deck of a disabled ship.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES ...
11  If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest or Toulon.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
12  There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what steamers are to-day.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
13  It has been calculated that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
14  Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous billows of the invisible; he shouts.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
15  It has been calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty ships of the line.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION