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1  He sinks in two or three inches.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
2  But too much dreaming sinks and drowns.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
3  Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
4  Teglath-Phalasar, according to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
5  The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the shades, like morsels of the infinite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
6  The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing the old carter's breast more and more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
7  He cautiously put forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that the paving continued.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
8  He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
9  It must needs undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a mountain sinking into the plain.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
10  The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU
11  The wheels had continued to sink, and it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under the vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
12  The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he had now reached.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
13  Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE
14  However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
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 Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
16  These six years were an extraordinary moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
17  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
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