1 I entered a village which I espied.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP 2 Not even the spire of a distant village.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 3 Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian village; Ohain is another.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 4 I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP 5 Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw up his report to Lord Bathurst.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 6 If ever the sic vos non vobis was applicable, it certainly is to that village of Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 7 Wellington held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and the slope.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 8 When he passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and surrounded him like a swarm of gnats.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 9 It occupied the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the slope, which was tolerably steep then.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 10 The entrance to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 11 They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace.
12 The clock-tower of what had been their village forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 13 Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 14 At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the village of Ohain, at the extreme left.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 15 Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had "peculiar ways" in the forest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 16 The populace, who are fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before daybreak.
17 The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock.
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