1 It was something like the fly serving the spiders.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 2 Persecution of the spiders was not organized there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER 3 Basque had suppressed the bottles, and Nicolette the spiders.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS 4 The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the spider on the fly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN ... 5 There was not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of that conscience.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE 6 They experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a man from the country.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE 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 An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 9 The Thenardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 10 Her childhood produced upon her the effect of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, and serpents.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE 11 The lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS 12 They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and quivering in the shadows.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES ... 13 One morning he was in his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 14 The only furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with spiders' webs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 15 Towards the centre of this facade was a low, arched door, whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES 16 Above, a long brown beam, whence started at regular distances, massive, arching ribs, represented the vertebral column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed dirty diaphragms.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 17 Athwart the mysterious words which had been uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON ... Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.