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1  Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep on a stone bench.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
2  The wall on the right is of brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
4  The pilasters are surmounted by globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
5  These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, which form a heap among the nettles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
6  The stone was cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself up with a shiver.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
7  There is no longer either pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served the overflow.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
8  The device non pluribus impar re-appeared on the stone rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai d'Orsay.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
9  Three walls, part stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
10  Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
11  The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot of the pier of the door.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
12  Convicts were, at that period, sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their command.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
13  It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut stone, with balustrade with a double curve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
14  An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness of the stone, he raised himself as if by magic to the third story.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
15  This woman flung herself on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, three stories high and entirely of cut stone.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
16  Under the third arch of the Pont de Jena, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining aperture made by Blucher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was still recognizable on account of its whiteness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
17  The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on the north.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
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