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Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
2 Every syllable has an air of being marked.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
3 Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with his head that he did not.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ...
4 They might have torn out his nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable name, Cosette, was composed.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
5 The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a straw before the hurricane.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ...
6 As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely an expression of thanks.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ...
7 Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without uttering a syllable.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP