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1 He broke stones and damaged travellers on the highway.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS ...
2 A cannon-ball only travels six hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a second.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
3 It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he has been walking with some difficulty.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...