1 A fresh white bed had been prepared there.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY 2 The garden was enclosed by a tolerably low white wall, easy to climb.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED 3 Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted the white wall which enclosed it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 4 As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit by the nice white sheets.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY 5 She preferred to carry her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand rather than on her head.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 6 He carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 7 Fantine had the long, white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the sacred fire with a golden pin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 8 There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 9 In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated chairs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 10 Out of a similar sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 11 Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky of the twilight.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 12 A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 13 For many years past, I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the visage of one damned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 14 On the white margin he wrote a line or two, folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and lackey.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 15 A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 16 The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 17 She wore a gown of mauve barege, little reddish brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, whose name, canezou, a corruption of the words quinze aout, pronounced after the fashion of the Canebiere, signifies fine weather, heat, and midday.
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