1 Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY 2 A sort of flourish of trumpets went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 3 But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations and trumpet bursts of Jondrette.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR 4 Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of him a sort of trumpet.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN 5 Zephine was laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he had purchased at Saint-Cloud.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER 6 Its breath pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 7 Noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 8 Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was heard in the direction of the Arsenal others that a blow from a dagger was given by a child to a dragoon.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN 9 A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses like the scales on the hydra.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 10 He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners."
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ... 11 People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable alarm peal from Saint-Merry.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 12 Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadero, among others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about accepting this false triumph.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...