1 The patrol could form a cluster in this open space.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION 2 Behind this house, there were streets, possible flight, space.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT 3 These loopholes were separated from each other by equal spaces.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND ... 4 They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE 5 In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cocheres were encumbered with wounded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND ... 6 The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a flower.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 7 He gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some one.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE ... 8 The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all eyes, and a few square feet of space.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER 9 Thenardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without making any more noise than a breath.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 10 He had placed the billiard table between his assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an empty space around him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK 11 Before the troops of the line had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed again instantly, was life for these despairing men.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT 12 When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be promptly applied.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...